Jerome Seagears will definitely leave Rutgers regardless of whether Eddie Jordan becomes the next coach and has set several visits already, his coach told SNY.tv Thursday.
“He’s moving on, he needs a fresh start,” Darrick Bond, head coach at Flora MacDonald Academy, said by phone. “Either you’re all in or you’re all out with Coach Jordan’s program and he needs a fresh start without the stigma [of the Mike Rice firing] following him.”
The 6-foot-1 native of Silver Springs, MD, averaged 6.5 points and 2.6 assists.
Seagears will visit Auburn beginning Friday, will then trip to Arkansas the weekend of April 26 and West Virginia the weekend of May 3.
Bond said Seagears wil also take visits to Marquette and Cincinnati, but no dates have been set.
Baylor is also under consideration, but Bond said Seagears would likely take an unofficial there.
“He’s moving on,” Bond said. “He has nothing against the people at Rutgers, the people were great. But he needs a fresh start.”
Meantime, Nate Blue, the mentor of Rutgers wing Mike Poole, confirmed to SNY.tv that Poole would not stay and play for Jordan and would transfer and seek a waiver to play immediately next year.
“No,” he said when asked if Poole might stay, “that Rutgers chapter is closed.”
