N.C. State forward Gavin Grant now can plan for his senior basketball season without any lingering worries about an immigration hearing or possible deportation. Grant’s attorney, Anna Baird Choi of Raleigh, said today that immigration Judge Wayne Houser Jr. had administratively closed the removal proceeding against Grant. That cleared the way for Grant, who was […]
Basketball Recruiting
Spotlight on CJ and Beyond
With NC State’s 2007 recruiting wrapped-up with a Top 20 class, why don’t we take just a few minutes to look ahead a little in basketball recruiting. The Bob Gibbons Tournament of Champions last weekend helped kick-off the summer camp circuit. The local nature of the tourney always helps to bubble specific targets of the […]
2007 Basketball Recruiting Rankings & Review
Basketball recruiting for this year’s class is complete and first year Head Coach, Sidney Lowe has an awful lot of which to be proud!! Coach Lowe made the best of his opportunity to make a big impact as early as he could last summer. After inheriting a program that was in such disarray that Lee […]
WizOdds: ‘NCAA Lacks Text Appeal’
This is a link to an interesting blog entry that includes some good links to other sources discussing the topic of text messaging in college recruiting. The NCAA, unable to get a grip on technology, is about to ban text messaging in college recruiting. Yes, kids do get pestered to death with text messages and […]
Johnny Thomas’ Athleticism
There have been so many little blurbs in the media regarding high school basketball recruits over the last few weeks that we could have focused the entire attention of this blog on just recruiting nuggets. I ran across the following this weekend in the Charlotte Observer and just couldn’t pass on it. (Link) In four […]
Recruiting’s dirty game / NCS + TOB + CTC Comments (Updated 11:20am)
With the Spring Football game approaching this weekend and with NC State’s football recruiting evolving into a very different dynamic under Tom O’Brien than we had under Chuck Amato, we thought that we would share some interesting insight from a former college football coach. (Tip of the hat to Dave Sez for linking this up […]
Couldn’t Resist
Sorry…but, I couldn’t resist linking this blog entry and highlighting the comments of SEC Newcomer of the year, Patrick Beverley: “When I signed my letter of intent to play for Arkansas, I didn’t sign to play for any particular coach. “I signed to play for the University of Arkansas.” I think that I have a […]
Beasley to K State? Maybe, Maybe Not. (Updated 12pm)
Michael Beasley is a 6’8 forward that can play the wing or the post and is undoubtedly one of the five best high school players in this year’s senior class. Some recruiting services rank Beasley as the best prospect of the lot. Just last week he laid claim to some pretty significant hardware when he […]
J.J. Hickson, McDonald’s All American
The rosters can be found here. It helps wash away the memories of today’s game to think about next year’s frontcourt rotation. Congrats to J.J. and congrats again to the staff for landing such a fine commitment. (Link to S6) For more on the topic of “The Rich Get Richer” you can click here. If […]
Howland: Getting Players
We’ve got scores and scores of old partial entreis, and quotes, and tidbits saved in our drafts section that have become dated. But, I think that there is some definite value in blogging a lot of these things so that a record of them exists. Today, I just wanted to share a quote from UCLA […]
