Before getting to veteran hoops talent scout Bob Gibbons update for his 2010 top 150 list, the Good Mongrel would like to mention some other hubub of note.
* Detroit County Day's Ray MacCallum Jr is planning on attending the Duke elite camp this weekend. He, Kyrie Irving, and Brandon Knight are Duke's primary point guard targets. MacCallum Jr is also strongly considering UCLA and Kansas among other schools. http://www.hoopsreport.com/news/hoopsnews/mccallumgetsgeneticgiftandknowledgeofthegamefromfather
* Bowling Green star and Cincinnati decommitment Chase Behannon has been contacted by UK, Georgia, West Virginia, and Alabama among other schools since his mysterious and shifting decommitment. He has guardians in Cincinnati that weren't on board with the decommitment but they appeared to endorse that the Bowling Green guardian who said he had decommitted was handling his recruitment. I don't know what to say about that but here's a recruiting update from Demling that wisely avoids the confusing side of it altogether. http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/demling/2009/08/uk-calling-on-in-state-prospect.html
* Wisconsin has sort of offered Port Washington shooting guard John Gasser. They offered a "four for five" deal where Gasser would walk on as a freshman and get a scholarship the next four years. Gasser has legit offers from so many good schools he seems unlikely to take that offer but if Vander Blue doesn't re-up with Wisconsin he may get the four for four offer he's getting from Maryland, Northwestern, and other good schools. http://www.wissports.net/sports/hoopsb/blog/blog.aspx?f=123 The "quick hitters" section also mentions a Ball State offer to 7'0 center Ben Mills. The photo of Mills above is from Livinglakecountry.com the local newspaper.
* Insidethehall twitters that 2013 Jeffersonville phenom Daryl Baker will be at Indiana University's elite camp last weekend in August.
Gibbons has his new top 150 list out for post-summer 2010. Here are some players of note for each state in the Mongrel's radius and some of the recruits playing for schools in that neighborhood...
Illinois: Jerome Richmond (UI) #18, Crandall Head (UI) #42, Myers Leonard (UI) #44, Lenzelle Smith (Ohio St) #87, Brandon Spearman (Dayton) #100, Ahmad Starks (Oregon St) #120, Anthony Johnson (Purdue) #124, Ben Brust (Iowa) #136, Alex Dragecevich (Notre Dame) #164,
Indiana: DeShawn Thomas (Ohio St) #6, Dominique Fergeson (Fla Int) #33, Eric Atkins (out of state Notre Dame commitment) #51, Justin Martin #56, Russell Byrd (MSU) #77, David Williams (out of state Indiana commitment) #107, Terone Johnson (Purdue) #110, Travis Carroll (Purdue) #144, Donnie Hale (Purdue) #168, Jesse Berry (Dayton) #175,
Kentucky: Josh Langford (out of state Louisville commitment) #67, Curtis Washington (USC) #145, Ge'lawn Guyn (Charlotte) #160,
Michigan: Keith Appling (MSU) #23, Ray MacCallum Jr #39, Evan Smotrycz (out of state Michigan commitment) #55, Trey Zeigler #63, Tim Hardaway (out of state Michigan commitment) #99, Alex Guana (MSU) #100, Jon Horford #123,
Ohio: Jarred Sullinger (Ohio St) #1, Adriean Payne #28, Jordan Seibert (Ohio St) #41, Juwan Staten (out of state Dayton commit) #47, JD Weatherspoon (Ohio St) #73, Aaron Craft #78, Cameron Wright (Pittsburgh) #125, Jordan Laytham (out of state Xavier recruit) #133,
If you want to have any respect as a blogger of college basketball news you'd better be ready to do some research. Who is Chase Behannon? Never heard of him. You mean Chane Behanan? You have spelled his name wrong every time you've tried and it just makes you look like a complete amatuer.
ReplyDeleteAs for his commitment to UC, try to get a quote from him and see what he has to say.
Ge'lawn Guyn is the best player in Kentucky and he played his way into the Top 100 over the Spring and Summer! Bob Gibbson should be a shame of his ranking. He needs to work on his website that has been down for 2 years now. Out of touch with AAU basketball.
ReplyDeleteTo the Chane Behanan ie Bearcat fan who can't handle the thought that their commitment is wavering, cursing me for being an amature is not going to make the commitment any more solid. He's as good as gone no matter how little grasp you have on irony. Obviously, as an unpaid blogger providing free coverage I am an amature so your childish insults don't seem so clever. I try to cover kids in five states and you're ranting like a baby about a kid who is going into his sophomore year of high school and was moved intentionally so that the new guardian can control his development and recruiting. If you don't know how that will turn out, stop being a Bearcat fan for a minute and imagine what anyone outside your phonetically perfect bubble would suggest. Considering the amount of misspellings on Rivals, Scout, and ESPN I don't feel too belittled by that particular brand of insult either. Behanan is out of your orbit now either way.
ReplyDeleteGoldenrule, thanks for the comments. As you know if you've read my coverage in the past I'm a big fan of Guyn. I'm not sure about top 100 as there are so many kids guys like Gibbons have to see that I don't get to see, but I like him more than Gibbons does. However, don't bag too hard on Gibbons. He's been covering recruiting for a long time and still gets to see a ton of tournaments (including the Bob Gibbons Tournament of Champions...vbg). The newer internet based recruiting services are a ton of fun, but don't forget you're usually reading the opinions of people who have been covering recruinig for 4 or 5 years in most cases and aren't old enough to have anywhere near the perspective on recruiting that Gibbons has. And none of them see all of the kids very much, its impossible. Guyn is a fine defender and will be a very good player in Charlotte imo.
ReplyDeleteAmateurism at its best. Your going to pretend to know something about the situation yet you can't even come close to spelling his name correctly?
ReplyDeleteChane was just on UC's campus last weekend. Good try though. Again, find a quote from him and then we'll see who's committed.
Look doofus, I am an amateur. What part of that troubles you? I linked the writer from the Courier Journal who is not. I did not try to act like I had some sort of personal knowledge about him just because I read his fan site. That would be stupid. I'm not stupid.
ReplyDeleteHe got another offer, this one from Western Kentucky. You can call him committed if you want but nobody is going to run off to find quotes from the kid while he's still open enough to continually get new offers and attend new elite camps. All the kid (or any kid) has to do is tell coaches he isn't interested and they won't waste their extremely valuable time.
You go ahead and call him committed if it makes it easier to believe fan site fairy tails and call me an amateur every time I link another new article from a national writer about his recruitment and who has gotten involved. It fits the profile like a glove of an internet fan site devotee who has no connection to reality.
Reality is, committed kids don't keep their recruitment early. They can say they are committed to your fan site or newspaper or even the coaches at your school, but they are not a bunch of morons and will ignore him and recruit him as if he's uncommitted because the kid is letting everyone else do so.
When I pretend I spoke to the kid and have some sort of inside knowledge I'll feel open to criticism. But when I link national stories about other schools getting involved in his recruitment from reputable writers you're just sounding dumb. Did you think I didn't check out Bearcatslair.com to see what the other side of the story was? I can check one sided sources too, and often do. But I don't go around and tell the unbiased people they are dopes because they don't parrot my myopia.
And I don't go around and heckle amateurs for being amateurs, its extra stupid. Obviously I'm an amateur, that is why this is free and why I get to point out how stupid some of the responses I get from people are.
No matter what quotes you dig up, when the kid doesn't tell the other schools recruiting him he's off the table I'm not going to call him committed. It isn't what committed means no matter if the kid misuses that term to Cincinnati sources or not. And if you weren't a total moron you'd see my original post pretty clearly pointed out that there are two different stories going around and didn't bring my personal opinion into it.
Hopefully you are a lot smarter about things a little less dear to your heart, don't trust your bias you don't know how to use it yet. You're still at stage 2 of Internet Recruiting Fan Syndrome. When you evolve you'll understand.