I tend to laugh when players that pick schools like Alvarado did with GTECH, suddenly watch their coaching staff immediately run down another PG to play over them in the same recruiting class, as soon as that player suddenly becomes available.
I have no idea if Harris will truly entertain or consider Georgia Tech, but my guess would have been that Alvarado attended the games at MSG a couple of weeks ago for the NIT semifinals and finals, where GTECH was playing. Less than 2 weeks later, his potential playing time as a freshman, suddenly doesn't go out the window, but has the potential to go out the window, if Harris were to pick GTECH.
If Geo Baker wasn't such a potential talent that can play both guard positions and wasn't 6'4", RU could have had the same problem with Harris being pursued by our staff....but Baker can score, playing shooting guard and potentially be a PG where Alvarado is pretty much limited at 5'11 to 6'0" as a PG....GT's pursuit of Harris has the potential to completely be called "competition" but on the surface, it looks like a potential future transfer already likely for a local recruit, if Harris were to pick GT and Alvarado potentially doesn't play as much as he initially hoped he would. My guess would be Harris starts earning minutes over Alvarado as a better and more game ready PG.
This in no way is stating that I have any knowledge of what may or will happen, but when fans ask what happened to a Top 150 -250 recruit suddenly transfers, fans suddenly say "well, the player only averaged 2PPG as a freshman".....that may be true, but if the player doesn't earn minutes because there are too many kids at the same position, what is the player supposed to do??
And I'm not knocking Josh Pastner or Georgia Tech, he earned ACC coach of the Year in Year one and is charged with doing as much as he can, to get GTECH back in the discussions at the top half of the ACC. Coaches pretty much don't have any choice in a lot of cases, but to try and accumulate as much talent as possible. Just bears watching as there are a LOT of talented PG's for 2017 currently available this late in the process.
