Aaron Scales, a 6-foot-9, 250-pound power forward from the American Basketball Institute in Charlotte, N.C., decommitted from Missouri over concerns about head coach Frank Haith’s future.
Haith faces allegations of impropriety stemming to his time at Miami.
“Actually, he’s been thinking about it for the last few weeks. It’s just a tough situation,” John Jordan, Scales’s high school coach, told the Columbia Daily Tribune. “He really likes Coach Haith. He’d love to play for him, but with these allegations pending, it’s a situation where we just can’t gamble on this kind of situation.”
Jordan declined to specify the schools interested in Scales, averaging 24 points and 11 rebounds in his postgrad year, but said SEC and ACC programs were involved.
“I’d rather not say the schools because the schools were very careful about making sure he officially decommitted first,” Jordan said. “That’s why we went to the problem of formally decommitting because we didn’t want it to look like he was stabbing Coach Haith in the back or anything like that.”
With the addition of Huntington (West Va.) Prep forward Stefan Jankovic and guard Domonique Bull last week, Mizzou currently has eight commits for 2012.
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