Recruiting Roundup: Weekend Visits and Tidbits
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Jake Forrester, the 6-foot-9, 210-pound power forward from the Westtown (PA) School and the PSA Cardinals AAU program, took the first of five scheduled visits to Seton Hall late this week.
“It was really fun, they showed a lot of love,” he said Saturday by phone. “The campus is a lot bigger than I thought it was. I had a good time.”
Ranked the No. 23 power forward in the Class of 2018 per 247Sports.com, Forrester visited Seton Hall unofficially in June.
“I saw campus then, but all we did was tour the gym, sort of,” he said of the unofficial.
Back in the fall of 2015, Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard and his staff made a bold move.
They brought five young players from the New Jersey-based Sports U AAU program to campus and made a collective offer to the “Fab Five” of Naz Reid, Louis King, Luther Muhammad, Jahvon Quinerly and Atiba Taylor.
“They want to try to get all five guys,” Sports U coach Brian Coleman told me when the offer was made. “They feel like if they could get these guys that play together to stay home, it would be great for their state, it would be great for their team because they’d have a group of guys that are familiar with each other and they’re kind of looking at them as kind of like the next Michigan Fab Five.”
Fast-forward two years and not only are the “Fab Five” all going in different directions, but none of them are likely to wind up at Seton Hall.
Former Seton Hall signee Darnell Brodie is
