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John Wilkins made official visit to Providence over the weekend

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Not good news here...:badgrin:

http://hoopsblog.projo.com/

It looks like Keno Davis is remaining busy on the recruiting trail with an eye towards next season.
The Friars signed three high schoolers and do not currently have an open scholarship for 2010-11 but Davis and his staff continue to explore their options in case there is some movement on the roster later this spring. Towards that end, PC welcomed John Wilkins, a 6-foot-9 native of Belgium who is now enrolled at Southeastern Iowa Community College, to town over the weekend. Wilkins attended PC's home loss against Marquette.
"I haven't spoken to John yet. We're just about to go out to practice," said Terry Carroll, the coach at Southeastern. "But, yes, he did go out to Providence."
That, in itself, is a bit of a surprise. Wilkins signed to attend Bradley back in the fall of 2008 but never enrolled there. He is still being actively recruited by the Braves, but is looking at other schools.
"He did not re-sign at Bradley so he is open," said Carroll.
Wilkins is currently ineligible to play Juco ball because he appeared in five professional games in his native country four years ago. Wilkins will likely have to sit out five games wherever he enrolls next season. Since he has not played any junior college games, Wilkins could have four years of eligibility left.
He is now showing his skills in practice and Carroll said coaches from PC, Marquette, Kansas State, Tennessee and others have stopped by for a look. Providence is the only college he's visited this winter. Southeastern, a former national junior college champion, is ranked 21st this year. Carroll said that if he had Wilkins in his lineup, "we might be the number one team in the country. He's a perimeter-type big guy, probably a four-man (forward) at the next level. He needs to get tougher but he's very talented."
 
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Not good news here...:badgrin:

http://hoopsblog.projo.com/

It looks like Keno Davis is remaining busy on the recruiting trail with an eye towards next season.
The Friars signed three high schoolers and do not currently have an open scholarship for 2010-11 but Davis and his staff continue to explore their options in case there is some movement on the roster later this spring. Towards that end, PC welcomed John Wilkins, a 6-foot-9 native of Belgium who is now enrolled at Southeastern Iowa Community College, to town over the weekend. Wilkins attended PC's home loss against Marquette.
"I haven't spoken to John yet. We're just about to go out to practice," said Terry Carroll, the coach at Southeastern. "But, yes, he did go out to Providence."
That, in itself, is a bit of a surprise. Wilkins signed to attend Bradley back in the fall of 2008 but never enrolled there. He is still being actively recruited by the Braves, but is looking at other schools.
"He did not re-sign at Bradley so he is open," said Carroll.
Wilkins is currently ineligible to play Juco ball because he appeared in five professional games in his native country four years ago. Wilkins will likely have to sit out five games wherever he enrolls next season. Since he has not played any junior college games, Wilkins could have four years of eligibility left.
He is now showing his skills in practice and Carroll said coaches from PC, Marquette, Kansas State, Tennessee and others have stopped by for a look. Providence is the only college he's visited this winter. Southeastern, a former national junior college champion, is ranked 21st this year. Carroll said that if he had Wilkins in his lineup, "we might be the number one team in the country. He's a perimeter-type big guy, probably a four-man (forward) at the next level. He needs to get tougher but he's very talented."

YIKES! This is a revolting development!
 
Not good news here...:badgrin:

http://hoopsblog.projo.com/

It looks like Keno Davis is remaining busy on the recruiting trail with an eye towards next season.
The Friars signed three high schoolers and do not currently have an open scholarship for 2010-11 but Davis and his staff continue to explore their options in case there is some movement on the roster later this spring. Towards that end, PC welcomed John Wilkins, a 6-foot-9 native of Belgium who is now enrolled at Southeastern Iowa Community College, to town over the weekend. Wilkins attended PC's home loss against Marquette.
"I haven't spoken to John yet. We're just about to go out to practice," said Terry Carroll, the coach at Southeastern. "But, yes, he did go out to Providence."
That, in itself, is a bit of a surprise. Wilkins signed to attend Bradley back in the fall of 2008 but never enrolled there. He is still being actively recruited by the Braves, but is looking at other schools.
"He did not re-sign at Bradley so he is open," said Carroll.
Wilkins is currently ineligible to play Juco ball because he appeared in five professional games in his native country four years ago. Wilkins will likely have to sit out five games wherever he enrolls next season. Since he has not played any junior college games, Wilkins could have four years of eligibility left.
He is now showing his skills in practice and Carroll said coaches from PC, Marquette, Kansas State, Tennessee and others have stopped by for a look. Providence is the only college he's visited this winter. Southeastern, a former national junior college champion, is ranked 21st this year. Carroll said that if he had Wilkins in his lineup, "we might be the number one team in the country. He's a perimeter-type big guy, probably a four-man (forward) at the next level. He needs to get tougher but he's very talented."

When he did not sign during the signing period... I gave up all hope of him ever playing on the hilltop.
 
:-o I guess if I was offered a free trip out east I would take it to. I know I know this isn't a good sign, but until he says I'm looking at other schools, he's committed to BU in my book. Maybe I'm being naive in taking a man for his word.
 
Bye bye John! What a recruiting class we have lined up for 2010-2011!

Time for plan B...or C...or N, at this point...New facilities, open scholarships, obvious depth concerns on the current roster...so where are all the recruits? Ugh.:confused:
 
Time for plan B...or C...or N, at this point...New facilities, open scholarships, obvious depth concerns on the current roster...so where are all the recruits? Ugh.:confused:

Don't you know, all we needed was facilities and then all of our problems would be solved!
 
:-o I guess if I was offered a free trip out east I would take it to. I know I know this isn't a good sign, but until he says I'm looking at other schools, he's committed to BU in my book. Maybe I'm being naive in taking a man for his word.

Well, we'll see...but when his coach said that John is "still signed with the Braves" in the previous interview, everyone here was of the opinion that the coach would know his mindset better than anyone...
So now, his coach says, "He did not re-sign at Bradley, so he is open"...that doesn't sound good, at all. And I don't know how anyone could conclude that when his coach was speaking of him still being committed to BU, then he was speaking the absolute truth....but suddenly now when he says his recruiting is open since he didn't sign with BU, then he is mistaken and we have to wait to hear it from Wilkins.

I'm guessing the point in time that we will hear it from Wilkins will come right about the time that he signs with Providence, K-State, Tennessee, etc.

OK, Alvin Brooks...time to get back to work on this mess of a recruiting class.
 
You know folks, we only have 2 scholies available, Singhs and Roberts.
I am sure one is on hold for Wilkens.
Also we got Matt Salley, Theron Wilson, and Taylor Brown, 3 pretty good players after all signing periods were over.
I do not see a problem in not having any commitments at this time.8)
 
OK, Alvin Brooks...time to get back to work on this mess of a recruiting class.

I am still waiting for Alvin Brooks III to deliver anyone. Correct me if I am wrong, but so far he's delivered Thompson, McCain, and Roberts? So basically we've gotten a 75 foot bank shot and a few nice dunks out of him. Awesome.
 
This is obviously not good, but so far he's taken one visit to a school that currently doesn't have any open scholarships. We don't know whether he's hoping for something "better" than BU or just looking around, and I can't blame him for considering his options. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
 
Btw, what ever happened to that poster who seemed to have inside info on JW back when he was trying to get eligible last year? We could stand to hear from him about now.
 
I agree with you Bradley Brave Brooks has not set the world on fire. But I think he also landed Darion Norris and Milos.
 
I just hope he doesn't sign with Marquette...that will make it really painful to watch Marquette play next year...then I'd be forced to see Dwight Buycks, Darius Johnson-Odom, and John Wilkins all playing together in Marquette unis...and that would be torture to me...3 guys that BU came very close to getting, but went on to the same BCS pasture...Ugh.
 
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