Tyler Herro is an oddity in the State of Wisconsin. He is from Hales Corners (Not Milwaukee, Mike Breen), and he balled out in the postseason. Everyone should love him. But they don’t for a variety of reasons. It starts with Herro decommitting from Wisconsin and going to Kentucky. For those unfamiliar, Kentucky-Wisconsin has a postseason rivalry that stems from their two Final Four games against each other. This drew a great deal of ire from Badgers’ fans especially since Herro did it so late in the process. If Herro decommitted in summer, Wisconsin could have had Tyrese Haliburton or other promising options. Well, we have now found out that former Badgers’ great Nigel Hayes may have played a role in Herro to decommit from Wisconsin.

inject Nigel Hayes telling Tyler Herro to decommit from Wisko cuz he was too talented to play there into my veinsssssss pic.twitter.com/Gob760BDUT

— Thor Nystrom (@thorku) October 7, 2020

This is bad, bad news if you’re a Badgers fan. Hayes should not have admitted this to the media because it basically says Wisconsin cannot have top-tier NBA players on their roster. Wisconsin can still be an awesome Big Ten team and an occasional contender yet they will not bring in top guys to put them over the top. Wisconsin needs to find a way to clean this up if they can for future recruits because their competition will use it against them. Now, their recent recruiting classes have been great and maybe we’ll look back at this Herro/Hayes comment as meaningless.

Could Herro have thrived at Wisconsin? I actually think he could have and Greg Gard is enough of a players’ coach to give Herro enough leeway as a player. Hope that people are starting to get on board with him as a player. It is fun to root for people from our state no matter where they went to school. Unless he is playing the Bucks, I hope Herro does big things for Miami.

Charlie.