Lorenzo Brown, Richard Howell, and Scott Wood

also there is a premium article on PP saying that DeWitt recently visited NCSU...that could have been who I saw on campus Sunday

8/20/2008 11:41:11 AM

im pretty sure it was.
this might be a repost / sorry if it is but it is one hell of a read about Keith DeWitt and what he has gone through to get to college.

the kid is a huge wolfpack fan and he would understand what it means to play for the red and white of state.

http://ncstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=834045

8/20/2008 5:19:36 PM

I would know what it means to play for the red and white of state too but i would suck. My point being, I'll take quality bball players over diehard fans any day.

8/20/2008 5:31:00 PM

DeWitt is a quality player, but the problem is we have even better quality players still on the board.

8/20/2008 5:37:11 PM

Someone was saying that someone else was leading for Dewitt. Missouri or something like that.

8/21/2008 4:42:17 PM

Yeah, but I don't think we have put an offer on the table. I could have missed it if we did though. I think he is also quoted saying we are his "dream school" or something similar.

8/21/2008 4:49:41 PM

Yeah I think it's because we haven't offered.

8/21/2008 4:53:23 PM

I don't care if we end up with the most thugged out team in the nation.... im tired of not being able to run with UNC

[Edited on August 21, 2008 at 6:32 PM. Reason : mad]

8/21/2008 6:30:13 PM

Post Summer 2009 Rankings are up on Scout

Brown #33 overall (can't remember if this is an up or down move)
Howell #51 overall (big jump)
Wood is still a 3* and ranked the #29 SG

8/23/2008 12:38:45 PM

I think Brown went down slightly

8/23/2008 2:04:23 PM

bttt

8/25/2008 3:19:16 PM

Keith Dewitt committed to Mizzou today. So it's Favors or bust if we want a true 5 in this class.

8/25/2008 6:33:57 PM

please to get favors

8/25/2008 6:34:59 PM

THAT SUCKS. We went from dream school to just a dream in like a week.

NC State doesn't usually come out on top in "... or bust" situations.

8/25/2008 6:41:47 PM

seems to me Keith my not honor is commitment to Mizzou if we miss out on favors and offer him.

8/25/2008 8:05:29 PM

We offered Dewitt.

8/25/2008 8:24:20 PM

^i've heard conflicting statements

8/25/2008 8:29:59 PM

did we offer recently? (past week)

If not I must have read something wrong somewhere.

8/25/2008 8:31:15 PM

Scout shows that we offered and I thought I read some premium info that said we had offered. If we did offer it may not have been a committable offer.

8/25/2008 8:38:22 PM

dewitt wanted immediate significant playing time, something that mizzou gave him

8/25/2008 10:55:50 PM

our recruiting sucks

/thread

8/25/2008 11:08:59 PM

recruiting right now is the only good thing about our basketball program.

8/25/2008 11:59:13 PM

Don't forget the facilities. Lee will point out to you if you forget that we have the best facilities in the ACC.

8/26/2008 12:19:02 AM

you know me, i hate the rbc center.

8/26/2008 12:23:01 AM

Yikes... Wall is pretty fucking awesome.

Anyone watch the HS game at Rucker?

[Edited on August 26, 2008 at 1:02 AM. Reason : and I really hope Cheek commits to UConn...]

8/26/2008 1:01:19 AM

Quote :

"Anyone watch the HS game at Rucker?"

no, i missed it and hope to catch it on replay. anyone got any replay dates/times

heard wall and favors went off. wall had a top 10 dunk or play of the day or something like that. kid is the real deal.

8/26/2008 8:47:26 AM

^^ I saw it. I didn't realize how awesome wall and favors were until that video. Now i want us to get them....

Wall really does have derrick rose-like athleticism. The UNC player, strickland, was fucking fast as shit, too.

8/26/2008 9:08:20 AM

Quote :

"I didn't realize how awesome wall and favors were until that video"

are you living under a rock?? Wall is the number one high school player overall on a couple of the recruiting sites (and the #1 PG on all of them) and Favors is the number one center on all of them

8/26/2008 9:27:02 AM

what was the waving arms thing Wall tried to pull last night? Favors was a beast though. So was Josh Smith. I think it's crazy how some of these kids currently have their own documentary teams that follow them around everywhere.

[Edited on August 26, 2008 at 1:46 PM. Reason : asdf]

8/26/2008 1:45:31 PM

Highlight vids for you all.

CJ Leslie
http://googsports.tv/googsports/VideoPlayer/tabid/201/VideoId/29/CJ-Leslie.aspx

Richard Howell
http://googsports.tv/googsports/VideoPlayer/tabid/201/VideoId/21/Richard-Howell.aspx

Noel Johnson
http://googsports.tv/googsports/VideoPlayer/tabid/201/VideoId/20/Noel-Johnson.aspx

8/26/2008 9:50:45 PM

^^^ No shit captain obvious, but it's pretty simple: rankings are abstract and seeing is believing.

8/26/2008 9:54:09 PM

Names in the 2011 class that we are looking at are Deuce Bello, Bishop Daniels, and John Cannon, LaQuinton Ross and John Hood (both are rumored to have received verbal offers from State already).

Deuce Bello
http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/a.z?s=178&p=8&c=1&nid=3397031

Bishop Daniels
http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/a.z?s=178&p=8&c=1&nid=3573591
http://ncstate.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=81323&sport=2

John Cannon
http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/a.z?s=178&p=8&c=1&nid=3575050

LaQuinton Ross
http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/a.z?s=178&p=8&c=1&nid=3226343
http://ncstate.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=68956&sport=2

8/26/2008 10:10:01 PM

Quote :

"No shit captain obvious, but it's pretty simple: rankings are abstract and seeing is believing"

Jesus you're fucking dumb, so before you saw the video you didn't want us to land 2 of the top high school recruits just because you hadn't seen them yet? I'm not saying there's no unwarranted hype in recruiting rankings but if a player is a consensus top 5 they're going to be fucking good and any school would be lucky to have them. Everyone on here (except for you apparently) already knew how good both Favors and Wall are for a long time now, so stop acting like seeing that game was a revelation for anyone but the uninformed.

8/26/2008 10:25:06 PM

Edit: John Hood = Rodney Hood in previous post. I was wondering why I couldn't find him in the Rivals and Scout databases, even though I was sure that I had found him a week or so ago.


Well this is nice to hear.

http://www.zagsblog.net/2008/08/24/laquinton-ross-has-options-3/

Boost Mobile: LaQuinton Ross Has Options

NEW YORK - Some potentially good news for N.C. State hoops fans from the Boost Mobile Elite 24 event at Harlem’s Rucker Park.

April Ross, the mother of top five 2011 prospect LaQuinton Ross, wore a bright red N.C. State shirt to the scrimmage on Thursday. (niiiiiicccceeeee!)

When I asked the 6-foot-8, 195-pound Ross if N.C. State was a school he’s be interested in, he said, “Yes, it is.”

“I’m considering N.C. State, Texas, Florida, Baylor, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Southern Miss and a few more, like Syracuse,” he added.”

Ross recently took an unofficial to N.C. State but doesn’t know much about the school.

“I’ve been there one time this summer and went down there for a little bit,” said Ross, who turns 17 in Nov. “I just like the atmosphere, the campus and all the students. It was good.”

N.C. State head coach Sidney Lowe and assistant Larry Harris followed Ross in Las Vegas in July, and offered him and travel teammate Rodney Hood scholarships.

N.C. State, Georgia Tech, Maryland and basically the whole SEC have already offered Ross, who ranks with shooting guard Tony Wroten of Washington and small forward Michael Gilchrist of St. Patrick of Elizabeth as the consensus top three players in the Class of 2011.

Recruiting analyst Jerry Meyer of Rivals.com has said that Ross shows flashes of NBA greats Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant. It’s why he’ll be a top target for so many colleges, but a decision could take some time.

8/26/2008 10:48:05 PM

^^ Stop frothing at the mouth and calm down. You're so desperate to make a point, you're reasoning like a child. Saying a guy is better than you thought is not the same as saying you didn't want them before. Also, good for you that you got excited about wall and favors early in the process.

This is really what you want to bitch about, sweetie pie?

8/26/2008 11:19:43 PM

Quote :

"Now i want us to get them...."

does that not imply that you didn't want us to get them before? It sure looks like it to me

Quote :

"Also, good for you that you got excited about wall and favors early in the process."

It's not just me, everyone in sports talk has been talking about Favors and Wall for a long time now...you're like 6 months late to the party and acting like it's news that they are awesome. I bet a year from now you'll be talking about how awesome LaQuinton Ross is even though we all already knew about him months ago because we actually read the recruiting thread. You should probably just shut the fuck up before you embarrass yourself further.

8/26/2008 11:40:48 PM

i cant tell if you're trolling or just so bored that you're willing to jump all over whats at worst a poorly worded sentence.

8/26/2008 11:54:56 PM

there's no trolling going on, and it wasn't just a poorly worded sentence it was a series of obviously misinformed posts from someone who clearly hasn't bothered to follow state recruiting beyond watching a High School game on ESPNU.

8/27/2008 12:14:11 AM

Quote :

"When I asked the 6-foot-8, 195-pound Ross if N.C. State was a school he’s be interested in"

nice grammar

8/27/2008 8:24:54 AM

Garrius Adams made an unofficial and it sounds like he had a good time.

Also, props to Sid and crew for doing a great job recruiting. It's good to hear we're in with some big names.

8/27/2008 8:59:53 AM

^^a typo=/= grammatical error

There are enough real grammatical errors that we can point and laugh at in the average story without having to point out when someone fat fingers the S key

8/27/2008 9:13:55 AM

I was roaming around Inside Carolina for some reason this morning, and saw one of their posters say that one of our '09 recruits has grade issues? Said he'd be lucky to qualify.

Anybody with any info on this? It's the first I've heard of it.

8/27/2008 11:34:14 AM

One of them had grade issues, i believe that was resolved.

8/27/2008 12:04:03 PM

If they can get Dwight Jones in, they can get anyone in

8/27/2008 12:19:49 PM

Glad to see that we are at least in the game for some of the top talent in the next few years.




[Edited on August 27, 2008 at 3:57 PM. Reason : sd]

8/27/2008 3:57:01 PM

Quote :

"I was roaming around Inside Carolina for some reason this morning, and saw one of their posters say that one of our '09 recruits has grade issues? Said he'd be lucky to qualify. Anybody with any info on this? It's the first I've heard of it."

that's howell. i haven't really seen anything about it other than a few mentions when he committed that he still had some work to do to qualify.

that'd be a big disappointment if they can't get that worked out.

8/27/2008 4:11:48 PM

http://ncstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=842928

5. N.C. State

2009 commits (National rank)
PG Lorenzo Brown (43)
PF Richard Howell (51)
SG Scott Wood (126)

The Wolfpack love the Interstate-85 pipeline to Atlanta. After securing J.J. Hickson two years ago, Sidney Lowe and his staff have mined Georgia hard for talent. The results have been positive in 2009 with Brown and Howell. Both should help from Day One. A mini-Indiana connection also is growing. Last year the team landed Julius Mays. This year, Wood is the latest Hoosier to head south to Raleigh.

8/27/2008 4:21:05 PM

^^Heard any thing about the Wear bitches backing out in 09? There are rumblings in Southern CA about them wanting to stay closer to home.

8/27/2008 4:34:46 PM

So we would back off Noel Johnson if we signed Adams and vice versa?

How interested is Noel?

8/27/2008 4:58:16 PM

^^ only that one article that mentioned unc being a major player for ryan kelly if they do back out.

i get my rumors from packpride by and large, just for the record. i'm not gunzz trying to act like i know shit most don't.

[Edited on August 27, 2008 at 6:22 PM. Reason : .]

8/27/2008 6:21:37 PM