Two high schools and he won three high school state championships and was the mythical national championship all three years also - If he had been at the same school all four years instead of three would he have won another? He also took the time to be the 2016 Gatorade player of the year
Three universities (including UNLV) - and he has already graduated with a bachelor degree! It seems like it did more than his job in regards to graduation.
The Ohio State head coach who recruited him for his system quit the program and the new coach recruited over him with several high level transfers to fit into his new system, with no chance that Martell would do anything but ride the bench.
At the University of Miami Manny Diaz took over as the head coach at Temple on December 13th of 2018 and only two weeks later on December 30th quit Temple and took over as head coach in Miami. Only a matter of days latter Martell transferred to the university of Miami. He was never even given a chance to play at the university of Miami, and in regards to the suspension, I have no clue why that happened, but considering the character of a head coach who would take a job as a head coach only to quit two weeks later when hired by Miami, I would give zero credibility to coach Diaz (seems like we had a new basketball coach that screwed UNLV over the same way - and most of us thing he was a real sleaze).
As for commitments to numerous colleges, most of the universities send out offers to hundreds of players with the full knowledge that they will only accept less than 10% of the players that they have actively recruited. How many players now actively change their mind numerous times during the recruiting process? His first offer was when he was 13 years old (I believe Washington), his second offers was A&M which he changed when he had the chance to play at Ohio State in what he thought was his dream school before the coach left after his first year. Considering the history of Diaz and his lack of integrity, is it a shock that things did not work out at Miami for Martell?
Now he has accepted a walk on position at UNLV when he could have easily accepted a scholarship offer to other programs of which I am sure several are much higher rated than UNLV. He has walked away from a mess at Miami, a chinese virus year, and put himself in the transfer pool in January of 2021 when he figured out he needed a fresh start. He then took over a half year before deciding to play at UNLV.
Three universities (including UNLV) - and he has already graduated with a bachelor degree! It seems like it did more than his job in regards to graduation.
The Ohio State head coach who recruited him for his system quit the program and the new coach recruited over him with several high level transfers to fit into his new system, with no chance that Martell would do anything but ride the bench.
At the University of Miami Manny Diaz took over as the head coach at Temple on December 13th of 2018 and only two weeks later on December 30th quit Temple and took over as head coach in Miami. Only a matter of days latter Martell transferred to the university of Miami. He was never even given a chance to play at the university of Miami, and in regards to the suspension, I have no clue why that happened, but considering the character of a head coach who would take a job as a head coach only to quit two weeks later when hired by Miami, I would give zero credibility to coach Diaz (seems like we had a new basketball coach that screwed UNLV over the same way - and most of us thing he was a real sleaze).
As for commitments to numerous colleges, most of the universities send out offers to hundreds of players with the full knowledge that they will only accept less than 10% of the players that they have actively recruited. How many players now actively change their mind numerous times during the recruiting process? His first offer was when he was 13 years old (I believe Washington), his second offers was A&M which he changed when he had the chance to play at Ohio State in what he thought was his dream school before the coach left after his first year. Considering the history of Diaz and his lack of integrity, is it a shock that things did not work out at Miami for Martell?
Now he has accepted a walk on position at UNLV when he could have easily accepted a scholarship offer to other programs of which I am sure several are much higher rated than UNLV. He has walked away from a mess at Miami, a chinese virus year, and put himself in the transfer pool in January of 2021 when he figured out he needed a fresh start. He then took over a half year before deciding to play at UNLV.
