Fri Jan 16, 2009, 02:44pm
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Lighten up, Francis.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 4,690
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Even if the scouting is not "unscrupulous", 8th grade recruiting has already been happening. This is from May 1, 2008:
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To hear Howard Avery describe it, Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie knew nothing of his son when their paths happened to cross at a recent AAU basketball event.
As fate would have it, though, that chance encounter led to a scholarship offer from the Wildcats and perhaps the earliest verbal commitment in the history of college basketball's winningest program.
Michael Avery, a 6-foot-4 eighth-grader from Lake Sherwood, Calif., says he will play for the Cats. Now on with the business of finding a high school.
"That's the funny thing," Howard Avery said with laugh. "We've got our college. Now we need our high school."
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