Rock Chalk Legacy Hawk
I often find myself swimming against the stream of public opinion, and that goes for my Jayhawks, too. To wit, A Contention that Most Everyone Will Think Sounds Crazy But Is Actually True:
CJ Henry is a better get for the program than his brother Xavier.
I say this for a few reasons. We haven’t seen him really play yet, so we honestly don’t know how good he can be, but we do know that Coach Self recruited him out of high school, so he’s a KU-calibre player. That’s for starters. He didn’t come to KU out of high school because the Yankees offered him, and after a few years in the minors (with a million bucks in his pocket), CJ decided baseball wasn’t for him. He committed to Memphis, but had to sit his Freshman year out injured. When Calipari leaves Memphis, he re-opened his recruitment and ended up with his younger brother at the same school both his parents played for.
So as a side-effect of our intense recruitment of CJ’s younger brother Xavier, we also end up with a 22-year-old legit D1 point guard freshman who doesn’t take up a scholarship. Are you kidding me? The only question is how long we’ll keep him. He does have NBA aspirations and won’t want to be a 27-year-old rookie.
Xavier is almost surely a one-and-done, but unless Xavier is playing in the last game of this season, CJ will have a bigger impact on our program over time.
Here’s what CJ had to say after his first game for the Crimson and Blue:
Henry said he became emotional when watching KU’s pregame video.
“I was like, ‘Man, my dad played here. My brother played here. My mom played here. My aunt played here. Man, this is crazy. We all played here,’” Henry said. “It’s indescribable for your whole family to do one thing.”
OMG! That’s the way my family is about watching the game and eating potato chips!!!!1 We’re almost the same!!!!!111eleven
November 21st, 2009 at 12:56 am
You’re so cute! I hope for really good things for CJ, and that’s pretty cool that he recognizes the history.