Can't Stop Me | Story of Kendall Jenkins

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NORTHERN COLORADO'S FRESHMAN ALL-AMERICAN KENDALL JENKINS TO TRANSFER TO OREGON

COURTESY: GODUCKS.COM
RELEASE DATE: 04/20/2015

by Keith Bishop
Editor, GoDucks.com

EUGENE, ORE — Oregon has gotten an announcement from one of the nation's best freshman that he'll be switching up his scenery and will transfer to Oregon to play basketball for the program. This announcement came after Jenkins arrived on campus during spring break for tours from some of the current Oregon Duck players.

Coming from North Las Vegas, Jenkins committed to play for Northern Colorado in Greeley. During his freshman tenure that ended in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Jenkins averaged 18.9 points, 9.4 rebounds, and 1.8 steals. All numbers that he led the team in.

When the award ceremony came around the 6'8 small forward was honored with Freshman All-American while also winning both freshman and player of the year honors in the Big Sky conference.

Kendall will be eligible to play following the 2016-17 season where he'll join the deep in depth Oregon Ducks roster.

Kendall used the Northern Colorado website to further explain why he chose to make this decision.

"I enjoyed my time in Greeley, I really did but I'm looking to advance in my career. I'd like to be something big when I wrap up with my college career and even with all the awards I earned at North Colorado I barely made any progress to impress scouts at the next level. You may say this is a selfish move on my part, maybe it is but I apologize... I've announced that I'm going to be playing for Oregon after I come off my redshirt season. I appreciate all you guys have done for me on campus and I can ensure you once I leave following summer break I WON'T forget about any of you."

Oregon head coach Dana Altman started his career in Eugene back in 2010 and since then he's been responsible for bringing in over 18 transfer athletes while a total of 23 have decided to leave the program. A complete in and out situation, let's hope the Ducks can keep a consistent roster for the next couple of years as they push for title hopes.

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April 16th, 2016 - Passion?

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“Back to the basics…” Kendall says as the plane lands back in Colorado. He walks through the airport and about fifteen people ask him for a picture before he can even make it outside where Chase awaits him in his old Nissan.

Kendall opens the backseat door and throws his small suitcase in the car before he enters the front seat and greets Chase with a handshake.

“So you’re leaving, huh?” He asks while he turns the keys in the ignition.

“Yup, you’ve got to see the campus there it’s amazing, especially the facilities.”

“But what about our campus, you just gonna leave us in the dirt like that?” Chase says. “What ever happened to you talking about how you were going to shock the world with ‘belief’?”

“Blame Hill, he didn’t bring in anybody but that little shooting guard and that sorry *** center. We won’t even be a winning team in our conference, forget about belief – this is common sense. It’s time to move on, that’s a good thing for you though, you’ll start next season if you keep working hard.”

“Yeah guess you’re right about that, we’re going to hit some dark ages while you live it up in Oregon.”

“Like I said, blame coach. He’s chill or whatever but he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Nothing’s stopping you from leaving either.”

They get back on campus after a thirty minute drive and everything seemed normal. Chase drops Kendall off at his apartment and he walks up the flight of stairs and sees a huge poster on his door reading ‘TRADER’ that had a ton of signatures on it, some from people he considered to be good friends.

“This is ****ing stupid,” Kendall rips the poster that was sealed with duct tape. “Looks like everybody turned on me like they did in Vegas.”

He walks into his apartment and throws his suitcase in his bedroom and grabs a Gatorade from the fridge and heads back outside to his car. He drives over to the gym and pops his trunk open to get the basketball he always carried around with him. When he walks into the gym he quickly notices Coach Hill and an unfamiliar older man who he talked with, the man’s height stood out and it seemed he was as tall if not taller than Kendall.

When they took notice of Kendall walking in the man spoke, “You don’t belong in here ,son. You don’t even like this game do you? You like the money, isn’t that right?”

“What the?” Kendall squints at the man he’d never seen before. “Coach who is this?”

B.J. Hill looks at Kendall, “This is—“

He instead continues to talk, “I’m Michael Higgins, you probably don’t even know me; you young men know nothing about the history of your programs. That stuff just isn’t important to you guys anymore, you play with no passion for your colleges… You all just chase the scouts, it’s a shame if you ask me.”

Kendall looked at him as if he was a lunatic but then thinks about whom he was, the name sounded so familiar but he couldn’t put a finger on it. Finally he looked up at the banner at the roof of the stadium; #55, retired by Mike Higgins.

“That’s right,” Mike says when he sees Kendall gazing at his banner. “Only number to ever be retired around here… Guess where I made it afterwards? That’s right, the NBA… You could’ve joined that list and did the same thing but from what I hear, you’re only in it for the money, just like every other kid…”

Kendall looks over at Coach Hill assuming he had been speaking bad about him, “Look man, you don’t know where I come from. I’ve been through a lot, I’ve been told basketball was the only way out so don’t try and exploit me like that.”

“I’m just saying; you could’ve joined that list… You could’ve been the best player to ever step foot on this campus. You brought this team all the way to the NCAA Tournament now you’re just going to leave because scouts didn’t see you play? What ever happened to the passion of basketball?”

“Why are you talking to me man?” Kendall starts to dribble the ball he held at his waist. “I just stopped by to put up some shots not to get your long *** lecture.”

“Well, I tried B.J.,” Mike nods in disgrace. “Good luck at Oregon, Kendall.”

[beast10]

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When i do the cap write ups can you guys like the post from time to time so i know youre still around? If not ill still write about your player just in case you pop back up but i just wont go in too much depth.

[beast10]

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Also wondering if you all want to see storylines throughout the red shirt season or should i just dive in to the next season?

[wonzer21]

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Really hope if Treyvonn gets in that he goes to Arizona to show you who the real king of the PAC-12 is

[beast10]

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Really hope if Treyvonn gets in that he goes to Arizona to show you who the real king of the PAC-12 is

I'll put you on Arizona, should be a good rivalry!

[TheEmanHTX]

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Great stuff. I look forward to keeping up

[beast10]

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Great stuff. I look forward to keeping up

Thanks again! I'm really enjoying this dynasty and it'll definitely last for a while.

[beast10]

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As for the storyline, I will pick up in the 16-17 season when Kendall is eligible to play. This decision comes in the sake of my new http://www.operationsports.com/forum...lly-ch2k8.html dynasty which is on the same file so I'll have to advance quickly.

I'll post the recruit shaping the future thing soon.

[bigbob]

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Unless my guy picks for himself, I'd like to wait until the last possible minute to choose a school.

However, if he decides at any point, just let him do his thing.

[beast10]

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[beast10]

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end of page, sorry for these. i know it's just hard to miss posts because of these sections

[beast10]

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Unless my guy picks for himself, I'd like to wait until the last possible minute to choose a school.

However, if he decides at any point, just let him do his thing.

He ended up at Pittsburgh, they went to the championship but lost to Louisville. I can change it up if you want

[beast10]

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The Recruits Shaping the Future: Volume 7
October, 2017

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Welcome to the Recruits Shaping the Future series, here I'll follow a list of basketball prospects including Dontae Brown, Kane Herren, Tuomas Kousa, Nuka Seyde, Damon Wright, Harry Fredhman, Cole Campbell, Stone Harper, Bob Bolig, Emmanuel Porter Jr., Treyvonn Damon, and Tyler Manilow.. The college basketball season is weeks from kicking off! Let's see how our prospects are doing.

Recruits Shaping the Future Stats - 16-17
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Cole Campbell (Notre Dame)	33	27.4	10.8	4.2	2.1	1.0	0.4	1.8	2.7
Damon Wright (Rutgers)	30	34.7	13.7	1.2	3.4	1.3	0.0	3.3	2.0
Dontae' Brown (Oregon)	30	24.9	11.5	5.0	1.8	1.1	0.2	1.2	2.7
Harry Fredman (Duke)	22	21.4	13.4	5.5	0.0	1.1	2.1	1.7	2.5
Nuka Seyde (Temple)	24	6.5	2.0	1.4	0.1	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.8
Stone Harper (Stanford)	30	22.6	8.4	2.0	2.5	1.3	0.0	2.2	3.2

Dontae' Brown – Oregon

• Freshman All-Conference
• First-Team All-Conference
• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: Dark Horse

Last season Dontae was named an everyday starter and averaged 11.5 points on 42% and 41% from three for his team that just missed the NCAA tournament after a 19-13 season [was caused by a glitch in the lineup, my fault lol]. The upside about this year’s squad is almost all players return besides non benefactors Carlton McFarlin and Theo Friedman… Dontae’ now had a SOLID team around him with players like JaQuan Lyle, Jerlad Potter, Kendall Jenkins, Ahmad Rori, Jean Snow… All players who had very good numbers last season. Expect big things from both Oregon and Dontae’ Brown.

Kane Herren – Holy Cross

• High School All-Conference

(My bad about this lol…) Kane Herren is taking a different sort of route… After being heavily recruited by Harvard since his junior season, the guard shocked the staff over at the academically prestigious school and signed with Worcester’s Holy Cross after making a run that ended in the NCAA Tournament where they came in as a 21-10 team and a #12 seed, they’d play Pittsburgh and lose 74-63 in the first round. A good majority of that Holy Cross team is returning for another year and Herren will be a part of it.

Tuomas Kousa - Undecided

Tuomas is finally a senior and one step away from the colligate level. A lot of colleges stepped away from Kousa but he’s getting letters from Miami, Penn State, South Florida, and Auburn. It’ll be interesting to see where the kid lands next season.

Nuka Seyde – Temple

• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: Undrafted

Gotta feel bad for Nuka Seyde… He finished his sophomore season once again riding the bench, averaging only 6.5 minutes a game. In the limited playing time he put up 2 points and 1.4 rebounds.

Damon Wright – Rutgers

• Freshman All-Conference
• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: Second Round

Damon Wright as expected had a great outing for Rutgers in his second season with them. Wright averaged 13.7 PPG and uped his assists numbers to 3.4 while maintaining an exceptional steals average at 1.3. Rutgers still struggled and Wright was basically their only answer, the Scarlet Knights had their season flipper, going just 10-20… Eddie Jordan put a lot of weight on Damon’s shoulders, playing him 34 minutes a game.

Harry Fredman – Duke

• Second-Team All-American
• Freshman of the Year
• Freshman All-American
• Conference Freshman of the Year
• First-Team All-Conference x2
• Freshman All-Conference
• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: Top Pick

With all those awards you see above there was no surprise when Fredman declared for the NBA Draft where he went on as the 2nd pick. His Duke team went 26-7 before falling to Pittsburgh in the Sweet Sixteen. Fredman ended his college career in that game with 10 points and 5 rebounds while Pittsburgh did their best to stop the bigman.

Cole Campbell – Notre Dame

• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: Undrafted

I said it when Notre Dame first landed Campbell and I’ll say it again, this kid will be solid. He wrapped up his sophomore season with numbers consisting of 10.8 PPG, 4.2 RPG, 2.1 APG, and a steal… Another plus is the success of Notre Dame after their poor season beforehand. This year they went 20-13 [11-7 in the Big East] and made their way into the NCAA Tournament where they were doomed by #7 Indiana who beat them 78-49 in the round of 64. Cole wants to bounce back and the Irish have a good chance at it as they return all of their starting five besides Demetrius Jackson.


Stone Harper - Stanford

• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: Undrafted

Stone Harper stepped it up in the scoring department, not fully but definitely surely. The guard out of Reno, Nevada averaged 8.4 points, and dished 2.5 assists a game.. His shooting numbers also finally stand out after an improvement from 31% from three to 43%! Stanford however… They went only 10-20 after a conference winning percentage that retained at 33%... Not good.

Bob Bolig - Pittsburgh

• High School All-Conference
• High School All-State
• High School State Champion
• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: Undrafted

Bob Bolig played in his high school state game and scored 18 points and recorded 11 rebounds for a solid double-double as his team routed Allentown High… A few weeks later Bolig made it official that he’d sign with Pittsburgh. Another couple of weeks and Bob was watching Pittsburgh in the national championship against Louisville. They’d go on to lose but the team now has experience a lot of other teams don’t, Bob gets to attend this school as they’ll try their hand at revisiting the big stage.

Tyler Manilow – Northern Colorado

• High School All-Conference
• High School All-State
• High School All-Academic
• High School State Runner Up
• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: Undrafted

Tyler Manilow made a bold decision and decided to sign with Northern Colorado in Greeley… As a four star recruit, Manilow’s college list had always been unusually short but when it was left vacant with an exception of Northern Colorado he had no other choice to sign with the Bears. The guard left a lot of emotion on the floor when his team lost in the state’s 1A championship, Manilow had 19 points in the 44-41 loss.

Emmanuel Porter Jr. - Kentucky

• High School All-Conference
• High School All-State
• High School All-American
• High School State Champion
• Ohio Mr. Basketball
• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: Undrafted

Kentucky went 20-11 after losing to #7 Dayton in the first round of the tournament. That’s where Emmanuel Porter Jr. will be playing his college ball, the Big Blue Nation! At 6’9, Porter comes out of Montreal Canada and is a pure athlete with an addition of great length that’ll make him dominant as a freshman. He’ll join player Devin Booker, Tyler Ulis, Mick Pitta, and Brennan Blevins down in Lexington.

Treyvonn Damon - Arizona

• High School All-Conference
• High School All-State
• High School All-American
• Washington D.C. Mr. Basketball
• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: First Round

Arizona captured themselves a gem with Treyvonn Damon after their 27-7 season that ended in the Sweet Sixteen against Providence. Damon was a high school All-American coming out of Washington D.C., he’s got the full package and can hurt defenses in many ways. He’ll join an absolutely stacked (8 players over 80 OVR) roster that’s currently ranked number 3 in the nation.

Hugh Hart - North Carolina

• High School All-Conference
• High School All-State
• Team Record: N/A
• Pro Buzz: Undrafted

North Carolina had a good year, going 28-7 and earning the #2 seed in the Big Dance… They seemed to be just fine, surpassing their first two opponents in blow-out wins. They ran into UNLV in the sweet sixteen and won 108-104 in an instant classic. They’d move on to the Elite 8 where they lost a 68-74 heartbreaker against #1 UCONN… The Tar Heels have graduated a lot of players from that roster; they’re now expecting big things from freshman Hugh Hart who comes from Australia. At 7’1, Hart plays a different style of basketball and prefers the three ball instead of the post game, somewhat of a Brad Miller physique.

* You guys have full control over your players so if you want to transfer, work on a specific part of your game, etc then just comment and I'll do it.