DeVaughn Purcell Eastern Oklahoma 2014

[mvcfan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He3vuZetijM

Here is some highlights. Very athletic. If Loften stays and is harnessed the birds could be scary next year.

[Da Coach]

Pretty impressive. I wish those highlight vids would show more of his game. From his stats, I am sure he must be able to do a few more things other than dunk the ball. I believe every shot he took on the video was an undefended dunk.

[mvcfan]

Yeah these videos are always misleading and really good at getting your hopes up. Kaza Keane looked like Pistol Pete in his videos.

[tornado]

That highlight video is from last year...and with his high school hairdo he looks a lot like Donte Thomas.....
and most of it is from pickup games or in an open gym with no defenders.....
curious if any video of him exists from within the past year...

Andy Enfield (formerly of FGCU) now the USC head coach offered Purcell a year ago having known him from Florida....
they have since reportedly withdrawn their offer and gone a different direction and the discussion of this topic on the USC board is interesting...
USC wouldn't take a lot of jucos because it takes time for the kids to play in Enfield's system and get to know it pretty well and juco kids don't come with a lot of time available - however - there was a general sense among some of those posting (not my assessment - just what I read) that the reason his entire highlight tape is nothing but dunking is that there's a lack of highlights of him dribbling, driving, dishing, penetrating or shooting from the outside against defenses.

[tornado]

Andy Enfield (formerly of FGCU) now the USC head coach offered Purcell a year ago having known him from Florida....
they have since reportedly withdrawn their offer ...

now it has become a little more apparent why a lot of schools backed off.....you just have to search under the right name in the databases.

[mvcfan]

Please elaborate?

[tornado]

edit - let's just say he's had a few off the court issues - some quite recently
..but unless his coaches knew nothing about it, they didn't seem to care because they played him and recruited him anyway - then I will leave it to the ISU folks to deal with.
But given how many arrest issues they have had and off the court problems that have lead to numersous dismissals - I kinda have to wonder that maybe Muller was not informed.

[Da Coach]

JoeSto at RedbirdRecon is reporting that top ISU recruit DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell, who is now one of the key new pieces for Illinois State Coach Dan Muller, is injured and walking around in a boot. There is no official word what the injury consists of.