Posted Thursday, September 10th, 2009
In-home visits have become pretty standard in the world of college recruiting. An in-home visit is when a college coach travels to a prospect’s house to meet with him and his family. It’s often a brief meeting, not lasting more than a couple of hours, that gives the coach an opportunity to sell himself, his school, and his program while answering any questions the prospect and family may have. For Rod Odom, and many other prep school products like him,…
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Posted Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Tyler Olander has become a popular man in recent months. The six-foot-nine forward is coming off a big summer in which he received a plethora of attention from high-major schools in addition to a handful of scholarship offers. “UConn, Marquette, Penn State, and Providence,” Olander replied when asked who he was hearing from the most, additionally claiming scholarship offers from all four schools in addition to Vanderbilt. “I like the three Big East schools,” he said, “but UConn is my…
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Posted Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
In the three years since John Carroll officially took over the program from longtime head coach Bill Batty, this is by far the most talented team we’ve seen at Northfield Mount Hermon. “This is easily the most talent we’ve had here since 06-07,” said Carroll, who was Batty’s long time associate head coach and recruiting coordinator before officially taking over the program. “We are very comfortable with our ability to play two guys at each spot, our size, and our…
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Posted Monday, September 7th, 2009
Prep school basketball is stronger in New England than in any other area of the country. That means every year we see a new batch of extremely talented players come to our region to play. This year is no different as the local prep schools are once again gearing up for a hard fought season. Here is a look at some of the high level talent making their first appearance in New England. Class of 2010 Bryon Allen, St. Thomas…
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Posted Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Last week we took an in-depth look at the national rankings released by both ESPN and the Rivals Network. This week Scout.com became the final of the major three national recruiting services to update their national rankings. It began in the sophomore class where, as we told you a few days ago, it became unanimous that Andre Drummond was the top player in the country as now Scout, Rivals, and ESPN have all made the same claim. Scout.com ranked 75…
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Posted Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Northfield Mount Hermon swingman Laurent Rivard has been a busy man over the last few months. No player in New England logged as many miles between June and July as Rivard. Between playing with the Canadian Junior National team, his Expressions Elite team, and participating in the Nike Global Challenge, he traveled over 30,000 miles this summer. But the NMH sharpshooter doesn’t seem fatigued in the slightest. In fact, few players were as active visiting prospective colleges in August or…
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Posted Friday, September 4th, 2009
The St. Andrew’s basketball team made their annual trip to the Syracuse team camp last week. For Michael Carter-Williams and Ricardo Ledo, it was an opportunity to get a look at the Big East campus. “Ricky and I stayed after the camp was over,” Carter-Williams told the New England Recruiting Report. “We went around to look at the campus. It’s ridiculous. You can just tell the Carmelo Anthony Center is going to be crazy.” Carter-Williams also claims picking up an…
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Posted Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
It was three years ago when we first walked into the Northfield Mount Hermon gym for a fall workout. NMH was loaded at the time with future Notre Dame forward Tyrone Nash along with current Atlantic 10 products Gary Correia and the Williams twins. But one of the players who caught our eye was barely five-feet tall. Shooting on one of the corner hoops on the side court was Makai Mason. At the time he could barely reach the hoop…
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Posted Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Dennis Clifford picked up the first two division I offers of his still young career earlier this week after visiting both Northeastern and Princeton unofficially. “I liked both schools, especially both coaching staffs, very much,” Clifford told the New England Recruiting Report. While Clifford now has offers from Northeastern and Princeton he said he’s also hearing quite a bit from Brown, Lafayette, Cornell, Sienna, and Holy Cross. He’s also been contacted by Vanderbilt, Rhode Island, Quinnipiac, Providence, and Boston University. …
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Posted Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Theitem.com is reporting that Hotchkiss School’s Jason Morris will make his second visit to Clemson’s campus this weekend to watch the football team’s season opening game against Middle Tennessee. Morris previously visited the ACC school’s campus with his father early in the month of August. During that unofficial visit Morris played pick-up with some of Clemson’s players before having dinner with members of the team. Morris is an incredible athlete who is able to make some amazing plays above the…
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