BU recruit- class of 2014- Milik Yarbrough

[tornado]

My friend who has some contacts in Illinois recruiting did a little digging on Yarbrough.

He's a good shooter, but needs to work on rebounding, defense and ball handling.
He is kind of lanky but has already added some weight....

all of this sounds a whole lot like a description of Garrett Covington last year - and Coach Mo scored big time by seeing it differently..

[tornado]

I heard some talk over the weekend that many of Milik Yarbrough's former offers are...
"no longer on the table" ..so I did a little digging on numerous message boards and found several other people saying the exact same thing...

So why would a kid who has a great junior year and an even better senior year - a kid who scored almost 2500 points in his high school career and ranks inside the TOP 20 all time in IHSA, and get lots of great writeups about his scoring, ability, highly rated, and potential - then have so many legit offers "drop off the table"?

I won't speculate but it does seem odd..

[Da Coach]

Milik Yarbrough is now scheduled for visits to Illinois State and St. Louis.

[tornado]

FWIW, Milik Yarbrough just tweeted that his very next tweet would be his decision where he's going

https://twitter.com/MilikY14/status/452996019039776770

and one of his friends speculates that he's going to DePaul along with Josh Cunningham

https://twitter.com/MitchHeun/status/453130181125750784

[cpacmel]

and one of his friends speculates that he's going to DePaul along with Josh Cunningham
https://twitter.com/MitchHeun/status/453130181125750784

I don't think that is a friend of Milik's. Not unless he is friends with news producers from Madison, who just happen to be a DePaul grads.

[tornado]

whatever - but I don't routinely retweet things that come from total strangers that I don't read, agree with or have as friends...
but Milik Yarbrough follows, reads, and retweets the guy's tweets


Yarbrough retweeted this March 18 tweet by Haun...

"Retweeted by Yarbrough
Mitch Heun @MitchHeun Mar 18
DePaul could make strides next year if they land @JoshMCunningham @MilikY14 to pair with @BGarrett_5 #dpubb #DePaul
Yarbrough @MilikY14"

[cpacmel]

He's having some fun with a DePaul fan. I wouldn't read too much into it. Especially when neither Milik or JC have DePaul listed in their top 5's. And Milik is so serious about DePaul that he isn't even using one of his 5 official visits there?

[tornado]

if you are saying we can't always believe what people tweet - then I generally begin with that premise...and would even expand it to you can't generally believe anything anyone says during the recruiting process - as we have learned time and time again..

[cpacmel]

Alrighty then, you worry about DePaul then. And when either one of them (or BOTH!!!) picks the Blue Demons, you will have your very own Gotcha post for me!

[tornado]

as I said right from the start that the very tweet in question was speculation, PLUS.....
.. I prefaced it with "FWIW" which generally is accepted as meaning I don't put a lot of stock into it but you can judge what it's worth

I have pointed out that similarly talented kids BU was courting who held out 'til very late in their recruiting processes seemed to land at DePaul
more than anywhere else...............so FWIW...

[Da Coach]

Another article about Milik Yarbrough. He lists his top 5 as Indiana, Bradley, Minnesota, Cincinnati and St. Louis.-

http://www.gymratinsider.com/news/milik-yarbrough-to-announce-soon/

[LongTimeFan]

Depaul in contention for Cunningham? I don't believe I have seen them connected with him for some time.

[tornado]

Depaul in contention for Cunningham? I don't believe I have seen them connected with him for some time.

in an interview just a couple days ago on the Indiana Rivals premium site...

YahooSports writer Jeff Rabjohns writes:
"Josh Cunningham was hanging out with his former Mac Irvin Fire
teammates this weekend, so Peegs.com had a chance to talk with him.

He is very interested in South Carolina, where he will take his final official
visit this coming weekend. (This past weekend was the recruiting dead
period, so no visits could be taken.)

The 6-foot-7 2014 Chicago Morgan Park forward told us he hasn't made
any decision. He said he's going to visit South Carolina, then sit down with
his mom and Mac Irvin coach Nick Irvin and make a decision. He told us
none of his finalists, including IU, are out of the running at this point.

He said he considers Creighton, Oklahoma, Bradley, Minnesota, Indiana,
DePaul and South Carolina his finalists.

Cunningham said a big key is a chance to play immediately and play on
the perimeter.

"Hopefully I come in and play some great minutes, but I want to play the
three instead of the four and going into the post because college guys are
much bigger than me," Cunningham told Peegs.com. "That's why this
season I tried to step out more and shoot the 3 and drive the ball more to
get ready for that in college."

We'll have a full story from that interview coming soon...."

https://indiana.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=731&mid=200000555&sid=942&tid=200000555&style=1

http://muckrack.com/JeffRabjohns

[Da Coach]

Despite all the last push by Indiana and now St. Johns, IllinoisPrepBullseye is reporting that Milik Yarbrough has said that Bradley and St. Louis as his leaders-

https://twitter.com/prepbullseye/status/455400038940692482

However, he later tweeted that he has yet to visit Illinois State and that could change-

https://twitter.com/prepbullseye/status/455437672433991680

[Da Coach]

New article just posted on the St. Louis Billikens Scout site-

http://saintlouis.scout.com/a.z?s=437&p=2&c=1393452&ssf=1&RequestedURL=http%3a%2f%2fsaintlouis.scout.com%2f2%2f1393452.html

In the article, Yarbrough calls his visit this weekend to St. Louis "amazing", and he says his top 2 are "Bradley & St. Louis".