Top-ranked recruit Harrison Barnes has signed a letter of intent with UNC, opting for the Tarheels on Friday over Duke, Oklahoma, Iowa State, UCLA and Kansas.
Harrison Barnes Breaks Out The Skype Machine To Select UNC Over Duke
After a long, and impressive, speech in which he thanked his friends, family and others who made this possible, Barnes made the audience wait a few extra minutes by going all Web 2.0 on us and breaking out the Skype machine. That’s right -- he Skype’d in the coach of the team he was about to select. After a brief technical glitch, UNC coach Roy Williams and the entire UNC basketball team appeared on a projected screen behind Barnes.
Dan Shanoff, expert of all things “webby”, was impressed:
BTW: I love that Barnes used Skype to tell UNC coach Roy Williams he was committing. Clever, novel, webby. Evolution of typical annoucement.
Evolution? Eh, I guess. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but what’s wrong with just picking up the hat of the team you’re going to select and putting it on your head? (Also: please get off my lawn.)
If generic quotes from Barnes about his new team are what you’re after, we have you covered with such classically scripted, yet well-delivered lines as:
"I have loved getting to know the players and coaching staff at North Carolina," Barnes said during the press conference. "I'm so privileged to be able to go play for Coach Williams. I think he's a great teacher of the game. More than that I like the academic plan they had for me."
Roy Williams, out-recruiting Coach K since 2003. But hey, at least you got Mason Plumlee!
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