BU Recruit - Class of 2009 - Travis Jordan

[PeoriaLou]

Rivals has BU listed as recruiting Travis Jordan, a 6'6 SF in the class of 2009 from Mendenhall, MS. It also lists Indiana, St. Johns and New Mexico in his recruiting list. Here is his Rivals profile:

http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=2&pr_key=56287

Here are 2 links to the CAA insider website, which lists Travis' profile and an article, which lists him as one of the top performers at last month's Rumble in the Bronx at Fordham University:

http://www.caainsider.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2514&Itemid=101

http://www.caainsider.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2526&Itemid=240

He is not listed in Scouts database.

 

[PeoriaLou]

Travis Jordan is playing in a tourney this weekend and is still considering BU, as well as Indiana, New Mexico, and SJU.

http://www.olneydailymail.com/articles/2007/12/06/sports/sports01.txt

 

[Da Coach]

I notice there is also a mention in that article that Leon Freeman has resurfaced at another prep school- Eldon Academy in Michigan. He dropped out of Boys to Men in Chicago last year.
If he ever takes academics seriously, he will be a highly recruited kid.

 

[tornado]

Eldon Academy:
http://michiganpreps.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=403988

Tuition = $6,500.00 per year.
Who pays this?


Leon Freeman was originally a 2006 recruit, ranked in 2004 as the 147th best player in his class:
http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=811

Then he moved around to a couple different schools in high school, first Ypsilanti Willow Run (FR),
then Belleville (SO through Senior). Then when he didn't qualify, he first committed to Schoolcraft Junior College, then surfaced at Boys to Men for his 5th year.
NOW he is at Eldon for what amounts to a 6th year of high school.
He will likely be 21 when or if he enters college.

By the time he was a sophomore, he was listed as the #1 player in Michigan:
http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/content.asp?lin=1&script=content.asp&fid=&cid=499141&tid=&mid=&rid=

When he was at Boys to Men, he was described by Loren Jackson (BTMA head coach and school administrator)
as being on target to qualify and:
"Academically, he's really helped by our small class sizes," Jackson said. "We only have about four or five students per teacher and it's really given him that individual attention he needs. He's doing extremely well."
http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=910&CID=619520

He didn't qualify coming out of Boys to Men and before March was no longer at BTMA,
so the predictions of him qualifying at Boys to Men were wrong like nearly everyone else there, sadly.