BU recruit 2016- Carlos Johnson

[Da Coach]

Carlos Johnson is a 6'4" wing player from El Cerrito, California High School. He is originally from Centralia. Illinois. Bradley extended him a scholarship offer yesterday. He also plays for the strong AAU program The Oakland Soldiers.

https://verbalcommits.com/players/carlos-johnson

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Carlos-Johnson-165304

https://twitter.com/AzFinestMixtape/status/604382300042747904

He is rated 3-stars by ESPN. He already had offers from Grand Canyon, UC Santa Barbara, Arkansas State, and Cal.

Highlight video-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpjrdNciuyU&feature=youtu.be

[tornado]

Recent reports describe him as a powerful rebounder - he was offered recently after he put up 21 pts, 15 rebs against the Mac Irvin Fire in Houston, then also performed well this past weekend in Minneapolis.

https://twitter.com/lillance3/status/604524317179817984

https://twitter.com/coachrobhoops/status/604525165284892672

he's originally from Centralia, IL - same place Warren Jones is from

https://twitter.com/scottybscout/status/604381886916530176

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMFlM6LfW6g

[Big Mike]

Looks like Carlos is attending Findly Prep for his Sr. Season.....https://mobile.twitter.com/WITNESS_T...00285576794112

[LongTimeFan]

Has Bradley ever gotten a recruit from a 'name' prep school?

[tornado]

Depends on what qualifies as a "name prep school"
....here are the recent BU guys who spent time at a prep school, there's considerably more than some might have thought..

Koch Bar is from a Florida prep school
Davante Cooper is from Orangewood Academy, maybe qualifies as a prep school
Anthony Fields was at QEA but came here from Wake
Jordan Swopshire had been at both Montrose Christian & SportsQuest Academy before BU
Chris Blake was at Air Force Prep but went to juco before coming here
Stefan Zecevic was at Lee Academy
Jalen Crawford was at Impact Prep
Shayok Shayok was at IMG - a pretty well respected 'name' prep school
Dodie Dunson had been at Brewster Prep but came to BU from juco
Saihou Jassey was at Rose Hill Academy
We had a verbal from Michael Ochereobia (Canarias Academy) but he never made it here
and we had a verbal from Xavier Crawford/Mt. Zion Prep but he never made it here

Back in 1982 - Dick Versace had two kids from prestigious Oak Hill Academy on the same roster - Franz Smith and Greg Willie...
but obviously we've never done well with prep school kids..


edit- of all the midwestern prep schools we've recruited kids from - Boys to Men, Decatur Christian, Brehm, Culver, Traders Point, La Lumiere, ABCD Prep, St. John's, etc..
Who would you list as the Top 10 impact kids from those prep schools? I mean the kids who went somewhere in DI and had an impact. If you have trouble naming ten, then shoot for just one or two. Manual's Lawrence Alexander might be the #1 guy as I have trouble thinking of any others - even the ones that were tremendously hyped and labelled "can't miss" and even 5-STAR.

[Da Coach]

Looks like Carlos is attending Findlay Prep for his Sr. Season.....https://mobile.twitter.com/WITNESS_T...00285576794112

Carlos Johnson transferred to Findlay Prep, and almost immediately UNLV took an interest in him. He had a very good summer playing for the Oakland Soldiers.
Today, Carlos Johnson committed to UNLV

[Da Coach]

Former BU recruit Carlos Johnson has de-committed from UNLV and apparently will be given his release and will reopen his recruiting.

[LongTimeFan]

Probably trying to move up into the 'big' schools.

[Da Coach]

Probably trying to move up into the 'big' schools.

As desperate as the big schools get for good "big men" at this time of year, that might happen. But I actually doubt it. Carlos Johnson is seriously undersized (6'4"-6'5") for the power forward position at bigger schools, and was thought to be a mid-major recruit when he committed to UNLV. He was rated 2-stars and 3-stars by the various recruiting sites, and his other offers were midmajors like Grand Canyon, UC Santa Barbara, Arkansas State, and a couple Mountain West schools. He is originally from California though, so he'll probably end up at a school out west.

[Da Coach]

Former Bradley recruit Carlos Johnson, who decommitted from UNLV after their coaching change, now has set up 3 visits-
Boise State April 29
Oregon State May 6
Washington May 13

[tornado]

report is Johnson is headed to Washington