Schiano: Teel Still My QB; Bosco Takes on St. X
The morning after his starting signal-caller threw
The morning after his starting signal-caller threw
Most of the top seniors in the nation are planning in-home and official visits with colleges, but Lance Stephenson appears to be laying low and waiting until the spring.
In that respect, he could follow the path set by Tyreke Evans, who waited until April to announce his commitment to Memphis over Villanova and Texas.
“Right now, I’m just worrying about basketball and at the end I’ll do all that college stuff,” the 6-foot-5 Stephenson, a senior guard at Brooklyn Lincoln, told me recently. “I’m going to do my high school season and after that I look forward to telling everybody what school I should go to.”
Stephenson continues to list Kansas, Texas, Memphis, USC and St. John’s among his favorites, although no officials or in-homes are in the works, as far as we know.
“I would like to visit Memphis, Texas, Kansas and USC a little bit more,” Stephenson said.
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yan Kelly, a 6-foot-9 power forward from Ravenscroft (NC) High ranked No. 8 among power forwards in the Class of 2009, was recently offered by Duke and appears to be seriously considering them.
Kelly, who played for the U18 National Team this summer, wasn’t originally being recruited by Duke and many thought it was a UNC/Notre Dame battle. But just before the Olympics, Ryan’s parents called Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski to set up a sit-down.
They then met on Duke’s campus and Coach K offered when he felt that Ryan’s interest was genuine.
A slew of college coaches will visit Bishop Maginn in Albany on Saturday for a coaches clinic. Of course it doesn’t hurt that that Maginn stars 6-foot-1 junior point guard Taran Buie, the No. 13 point guard in the Class of 2010.
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, Rutgers coach Freddie Hill, Maryland coach Gary Williams, Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt, Penn State coach Ed DeChellis, Fairfield coach Ed Cooley and Siena assistant Mitch Buonaguro will all give an hour clinic starting at 9 a.m., according to the Albany Times Union.
“We are very fortunate to have a player like Taran,” Maginn coach Rich Hurley told the newspaper. “That certainly helped get this event going. This is a great opportunity for area coaches to learn different aspects of the game from some of the top coaches in the country.”
Both Buie and Plainfield (NJ) junior guard Isaiah Epps are scheduled to attend Maryland Madness on Oct. 17.
About the only thing that wasn’t ugly on Rutgers’ sideline Thursday night was Erin Andrews.
The Scarlet Knights were slaughtered, 44-12, by a North Carolina team that hadn’t won outside the state of North Carolina since 2002.
RU has now been outscored 68-19 in back-to-back home losses to Fresno State and North Carolina.
Here are some legitimate questions going forward:
1-What is up with Mike Teel?
Through two games, the senior QB has five interceptions and just one garbage-time TD Thursday night. In the season opener against Fresno State, he over- or under-threw targets Kenny Britt and Tiquan Underwood on several occasions and threw two picks. Tonight he added three more INTs, including a 64-yarder by Bruce Carter for a touchdown.
Erin Andrews is in the house for the North Carolina-Rutgers game here at Rutgers Stadium. Looks like my source on Barack Obama also being here turned out to be wrong. Then again, maybe Obama didn’t want to turn off Southern voters by appearing to like “big-time football.” You know folks in the South don’t think North Carolina-Rutgers is big time.
Andrews will be a sideline reporter, helping out ESPN talents Chris Fowler, Craig James and Jesse Palmer.
College coaches are back out on the recruiting trail and everybody’s working hard. Here’s a quick rundown of some of what’s going on. UConn head coach Jim Calhoun and assistant Andre LaFleur visited Rice High School in Manhattan on Tuesday and put the full court press on Durand Scott.
“They were telling me about the school, academics-wise and how much they want me and stuff like that,” Scott said by phone.
Scott previously said he has a top eight schools of UCLA, Miami, UConn, Tennessee, Xavier, Pittsburgh, Memphis and Virginia
“I didn’t cut it down yet, pretty soon,” the 6-4, 180-pound Scott said.
Scott’s former Rice teammate, Kemba Walker, is a freshman guard at UConn and Scott told Connecticut reporters he wouldn’t mind playing with him again.
