Recruiting info for Dec. 2012

[tornado]

I agree - everyone relax - there's been talk of every recruit since message boards began and not one thing in any comment here references anyone's "talent" - except mine in post #8 above that are highly positive about some of the recruits' talent...
Everyone is entitled to imagine whatever talent they want for any player they want - but if there's a ranking of prep kids that includes several members of Zecevic's team - I certainly think that is relevant and speaks for itself ...
and yet we are sternly admonished to ignore the objective info & links and stop believing anything said about the recruits...

If you have more info on Zecevic's scoring average or his shooting percentage then please let us all know - there are a lot of people asking...

[real fan]

You cannot tell much about Zecevic as far as looking at his stats, these prep schools hardly play any team ball as I have seen several games and for the most part everyone wants to just shoot the ball, kind of like an all star game in that everyone is trying to be the star of the game. I think Stephan will be a fine player for Bradley.

[DeltaBrave03]

Wasn't John Wilkins supposed to be a one and done player? Obviously Geno saw a reason to offer the kid and early.

Don't we always talk about how these recruiting services base their evaluation on what schools are recruiting a kid so why would we expect them to be talking about SZ?

[tornado]

There are a lot of factors that have messed up Wilkins and any ISU fan will tell you he wasted a lot of potential...

anyway - back to Zecevic - at one of the prep tournaments about a month ago - one of the recruiting experts did various rankings...and even tho there were not a whole lot of international players - Zecevic was ranked within the top ten international prospects....and the top 4 on that list have D-I offers...the rest from 5-9 do not..

http://netscoutsbasketball.com/blog/top-10-international-players-at-2013-npsi-basketball-times-column/

[DeltaBrave03]

I don't know a lick about that guy, but I know what Geno did at KSU. Any joker can fire up a blog and claim to be an expert. Chances are there's a reason they blog and don't coach.

I'll trust Geno's judgement until proven otherwise.

[tornado]

Some recent recruit names from Dave Reynolds' article of 12/14/12-
6-foot-10 Isaac Kreuer of (Impact Academy, Las Vegas)- originally from Harrisonville, MO, he was home schooled through high school, so never got much recruiting attention. He played for a program in the Kansas City area for home schooled kids named the Metro Mavericks...

Isaac Kreuer commits to UMKC and thus will team with Shayok Shayok
...good for them - Richardson is getting some good players at UMKC - they may still try to get in the Valley down the road...

[tornado]

One other kid I had heard that we had looked at is named Jarekious Bradley (first name rhymes with Dyricus)
...who is having a great year at juco in Mississippi, 22.3 ppg & 44% from 3-pt
He is the fifth highest scoring juco player nationally and one of the top rated left unsigned...
Geno Ford actually had Jarekious Bradley signed - when he was at Kent State - will that give us some advantage?
http://www.recordpub.com/sports/2010...l-star-bradley..

Jarekious Bradley - a kid Geno Ford had successfully recruited to Kent State - is down to WKU & SEMO
21 ppg, 8 rpg - not a bad player

[tornado]

I noticed the WKU roster - if he chooses WKU, they will have EIGHT - Jarekious plus they will have 7 other new kids from prep schools & jucos -

..including Chris Harrison-Docks, Trency Jackson, and an IMG & Canarias kid, etc...
seems a whole lot of schools are rebuilding this way and no longer going for the standard 4-year recruits out of high school...

[tornado]

Jarekious Bradley - a kid Geno Ford had successfully recruited to Kent State - is down to WKU & SEMO
21 ppg, 8 rpg - not a bad player

Jarekious Bradley chose Western Kentucky but...
it was just announced he won't be enrolling at WKU due to eligibility issues...


Here's the answer to the trivia question posed elsewhere..

the answer is Hunt's Restaurant - down the hill west of Bradley across from lower Bradley Park...
Joe Stowell hosted Tom Payne who ended up going to Kentucky and having multiple legal problems & arrests - and I believe he's still in jail.

Here's a picture of Hunts...which moved to the Farmington Road location from over on Western Avenue..
and the spot they gave up over on Western because Kramers - then Jumers -

http://peoriaillinoisan.blogpeoria.com/2010/07/28/remember-hunts-ive-got-a-question-for-you/