Recruiting Insider: April 15, 2007 - April 21, 2007
Joseph Heading to Syracuse
I missed posting this earlier in the week. Carroll guard Kris Joseph, who made quite a splash in his first year locally after moving from Montreal, committed to play for Syracuse. He also considered Georgetown and at one time Maryland also was thought to be very interested in Joseph....
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| April 20, 2007; 2:39 PM ET |
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Logan-El Going I-AA?
Nothing is official yet, but when the wheels stop turning expect Antonio Logan-El to wind up at Towson, according to a well-placed source with inside information. An All-Met offensive lineman in 2005, Logan-El is waiting for Penn State to release him from his scholarship. That is considered a formality and...
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| April 20, 2007; 2:20 PM ET |
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The Next Jordan?
The Washingtonian last month wondered whether Michael Jordan's son was going to play for Georgetown. Today, though, the Chicago Tribune - which perhaps has a better handle on the subject? - reports that Illinois might be Jeffrey Jordan's destination....
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| April 20, 2007; 1:27 PM ET |
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Good Read on Texting
Here's a good read on the proposed text message ban. The next question on everyone's mind: How will coaches compensate for the loss of texting?...
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| April 20, 2007; 10:49 AM ET |
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Recruits Say They're Still Going to Tech
Some Virginia Tech recruits say they are not reconsidering their college choice in the wake of this week's campus shootings....
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| April 20, 2007; 9:32 AM ET |
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Tribe Loses Recruit
William & Mary assistant coach Antwon Jackson is as visible as anyone (save maybe Mason's Chris Caputo) when it comes to scouring the D.C. area for players. And now the Tribe is looking for one more recruit after losing a once-committed 6-5 forward to Mississippi State. Scroll to the fourth...
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| April 19, 2007; 2:33 PM ET |
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Early Signees Beware
Got a phone call the other day from former Potomac (Md.) High and Bowie State basketball coach Taft Hickman, now the coach at Kempsville High in Virginia Beach. Hickman was calling to voice his displeasure with Wichita State University, which refused to release one of Hickman's players from a letter-of-intent...
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| April 19, 2007; 2:24 PM ET |
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Fallout From LSU/Pokey?
Here's an interesting story on girls' basketball recruiting (sorry, NYT registration required) that looks at any possible backlash for coaches that are homosexual after LSU and Pokey Chatman went separate ways last month....
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| April 19, 2007; 12:38 PM ET |
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More on Text Messaging
Leave it to the Ivy League to come up with the NCAA's best legislation in quite some time. Quite frankly, after scanning today's papers for articles, I'm surprised more is not being made of the possibility that the NCAA will ban the text messaging of recruits....
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| April 19, 2007; 11:18 AM ET |
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Peterson Finally Makes a Call
No surprise here. After getting the okay from his parents, DeMatha guard Jeff Peterson accepted Iowa's scholarship offer....
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| April 18, 2007; 3:47 PM ET |
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Rutgers Loses a Recruit
A highly-sought after football recruit had his scholarship yanked by Rutgers just before ESPN reported that the recruit had been sentenced to three years probation for sexual assault....
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| April 18, 2007; 3:34 PM ET |
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No More Text Messaging????
This could me a huge change in recruiting. An NCAA committee has approved the change and it could be finalized next week by the NCAA Management Council. Some coaches no doubt will be pleased by the measure and some -- who used the loophole to their advantage -- will be...
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| April 18, 2007; 1:15 PM ET |
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Hokies In the Market?
Virginia Tech has another scholarship opening after backup center Robert Krabbendam decided to head to Europe to play professionally. He sat out this past season because of a knee injury....
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| April 18, 2007; 12:57 PM ET |
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Peterson to Iowa?
The story that seemingly never ends looks like to wrap up, possibly as soon as tonight and all indications are that DeMatha point guard Jeff Peterson will sign with Iowa. He had been waiting to meet the Hawkeyes' new coach, Todd Lickliter, before making a final decision. That happened yesterday,...
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| April 17, 2007; 4:20 PM ET |
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PW Point Guard Gets D-1 Ride
Freedom-Woodbridge point guard Jaren Haley has signed a letter-of-intent to play for Wagner....
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| April 17, 2007; 12:56 PM ET |
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Top Football Prospect to Choose Soon?
Well, it appears there is at least one more player to add to my list of the area's top football prospects from the class of 2008. Brooke Point LB Donovan Miles holds scholarship offers from Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech and West Virginia and plans to make a decision in the...
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| April 17, 2007; 12:07 PM ET |
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Peterson Decision This Week?
Been down this road before. The Des Moines Register reports that DeMatha guard Jeff Peterson is close to making a decision between Iowa, Princeton and St. Louis. Many ways to read this one. Does this mean Princeton, believed to be talking to Georgetown assistant Sidney Johnson, is close to making...
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| April 17, 2007; 10:53 AM ET |
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All-Met Gives Huggins the A-OK
New West Virginia Coach Bob Huggins traveled to Southern Maryland last Friday to meet with Mountaineers recruit and St. Mary's Ryken All-Met forward John Flowers. With John Beilein moving on to Michigan, Huggins brings a completely different style to Morgantown. However, after meeting with Huggins, Flowers said he intends to...
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| April 17, 2007; 10:15 AM ET |
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More on Williams/Kentucky
Here's more on Ireton's Mike Williams and his impression of Kentucky's new coach, Billy Gillispie....
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| April 16, 2007; 6:02 PM ET |
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G'town Adds a Good One
I had alluded to this possibility over the winter and now it appears to have happened. With Jeff Green and Roy Hibbert NBA-bound, Georgetown has scholarship openings and the Hoyas will use one on St. John's (Md.) forward Nikita Mescheriakov, according to a person close to the player. Mescheriakov, a...
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| April 16, 2007; 2:22 PM ET |
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Big Man Gets a Kick Start
It didn't take long for Bishop Ireton center and Kentucky recruit Mike Williams to get acquainted with the ways of the Bluegrass State. When he took the court at Louisville's Freedom Hall during pregame introductions, Williams kicked a stuffed cardinal into press row....
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| April 16, 2007; 2:12 PM ET |
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More On Terps' Latest Get
I had a small blurb in Saturday's paper on Maryland picking up a basketball commitment from guard Cliff Tucker of El Paso. Here's how the El Paso Times and Baltimore Sun saw it....
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| April 16, 2007; 1:55 PM ET |
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