From Lee CC in Port Arthur Texas.
6’7, 225. Has offers from CHARLOTTE, Oregon State, UNLV, Kansas State (of course), and Baylor.
We are apparently after him pretty hard.
Bobby, repeat after me: NO more JUCOs, NO more JUCOs, NO more freakin’ JUCOs!!! 
We need immediate JUCO talent to compete with the big boys. It took Winthrop 4 years and what did they do with it? They won the Big South, whoopty. We aren’t Carolina or NC State. But we can compete if we get the top tier Jucos. Look at Cincinnati when Huggins was there. I know you guys hate him, but he made them a perennial top 25 team with a bunch of kids no one wanted and Jucos. We must keep getting the best Jucos to mix in with our newcomers to stay competitive. We just don’t land enough top notch freshmen to keep this program going. JUCOs are a necessary part of our program
The JUCO route may not be my first choice either
but it is a route we cannot completely abandon if we are
to compete at the level I know we all want to!!
We definitely need JUCOs. Unfortunately, a lot of the ones we have signed in the last few years havent panned out. Courtney, Twon, Carlos, etc have kind of soured the fans on signing JUCOs. We tend to forget that there is a lot of top notch talent out there (Colson, EJ, Galen? oh and some guy named…Steve Francis, all JUCOs. I’m hoping Charlie the human airplane Coley and Lamont Mack can quiet all the JUCO haters.
I don’t give a **** where they come from.
Just bring in some players in that improve the program.
(NOTE - I said “improve”. this is not a “win at all costs” request). They have to be willing college students, as well.
As of the end of last season, the program is down…but not out. Just make it better.
I’ve even welcome another from “down under”, as long as he made valuable contributions.
any relation to Helen?
Juco talent is not like it was when Steve Francis or Sam Cassell came along. The juco ranks produced better talent in those days because if a kid did not qualify coming out of high school, the junior college route was pretty much his only choice. Now, with the “Prep” school option being a more attractive choice than juco, better talent is coming from that area rather than junior colleges. Juco talent as a whole has diminished, and that is why many of the guys we have gotten from there lately have not panned out. This is why I, and many others on here, have soured on the idea of such high emphasis on attracting juco players.
very good points icecold.
deleted the rest, b/c it doesn’t matter. . . . …
Jordan talks to his coach:
[URL=http://charlotte.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=702255]http://charlotte.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=702255[/URL]
On his game[QUOTE]Put it like this when he’s driving to the basket, he’s gonna dunk it on you or get fouled trying. He’s just real athletic and plays real well above the rim. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]The top five are, and I know the order but I won’t give it, Charlotte, Kansas State, West Virginia, UNLV and Texas A&M.[/QUOTE]
New article on rivals yesterday.
Keller came out and stated Kansas State is his leader (replace Beasley) and we’re second.Also holding offers from UNLV, TAMU, WVBooze, and Oregon State.
"My favorite right now is Kansas State," Keller said. "They want me to come in and make an immediate impact. They've been telling me that Michael Beasley will be bolting (to the NBA) after the year, so I'll need to come in and make an impact."
"Charlotte is right there after Kansas State," Keller said. "They were the first program to recruit me ever since I first went to JC, while everybody else just got in on me. They've always been in contact either calling me or sending me text messages, so I've got trust in them."I actually kind of like that he said something positive about every school that has offered him. Usually don't see that... or at least don't see the reporter report that.
here is a little blurb on Keller…
here’s a little on Keller from his coach, Roy Champagne:“He’s a long 6-foot-7, 220-pounder with versatility. He can play the ‘3’ but also with his back to the basket. He was the fourth-leading scorer in the conference at 18.1 points. He also averaged six rebounds. As a freshman, that’s tough to do in our league.
“He’s more than just an athlete. … His abilities can take him very far. It’s a matter of maturing within the game. If he grasps that. … He has a beautiful body, but he can do more. I mean, we’d all like to look like LeBron James. … He could become a 240-pound lean, mean, fighting machine.
“The sky is the limit as long as he matures his basketball IQ.”As for K-State, which Champagne said is the front-runner for Keller’s services, the forward plans to be in Manhattan for the Oct. 5 football game against KU. He, too, plans to decide during the early signing period, choosing between the Wildcats, UNLV, West Virginia, Charlotte, Texas A&M, and, of course, KU.
looks like a very strong Kstate lean…although I dont think to many of us are begging for another juco forward.
A little detective work with Keller (i’m way too cheap to pay subscription fees):
Here’s a new rivals article…
[QUOTE]September 21, 2007
Keller Shuffles Visits
TexasHoops.com Recruiting Staff
TexasHoops.com
There have been slight changes with the recruitment of Dominique Keller. The super-athletic 6-foot-7, 225-pound forward from Lee College in Baytown was supposed to take his first official visit this past weekend, but that trip was scrapped. Instead, he’s recently taken an unofficial visit to another school and has four trips planned over the next month as he soaks in all he can before making any decisions.
…More… (To continue reading this article you must be a subscriber.)[/QUOTE]
Here’s a previous article on Keller…
[QUOTE]Dominique Keller, a 6-7, 225-pound sophomore forward from Lee (Texas) Community College, will visit [B]UNLV on Sept. 14[/B] and Kansas State on Oct. 5. He also is considering KU, West Virginia, Texas A&M and Charlotte. He played high school ball at Memorial High in Port Arthur, Texas.[/QUOTE]
I remembered when I looked at the rivals recruits a week ago, Charlotte was with a bunch of ‘low interest’ teams and KSU & Texas A&M were ‘high interest’ (no teams were ‘medium’). I looked at the list to see if rivals modified it to remove UNLV. This is what I see:
[QUOTE]Kansas State High
Texas A&M High
Charlotte Medium
Oregon State Medium
West Virginia Medium
Baylor Low
UNLV (none)[/QUOTE]
So I’d venture to guess that UNLV is the “scrapped” visit and Charlotte is likely one of the official visits he has lined up.
In other recruiting news, Bob Huggins was seen hanging out with Charlotte target Dee Proby at a WVU football game on saturday.
[QUOTE=NLP;254588]New article on rivals yesterday.
Keller came out and stated Kansas State is his leader (replace Beasley) and we’re second.
[QUOTE]“My favorite right now is Kansas State,” Keller said. “They want me to come in and make an immediate impact. They’ve been telling me that Michael Beasley will be bolting (to the NBA) after the year, so I’ll need to come in and make an impact.”[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]Also transferring is [B][URL=http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=8&c=1&nid=1076008]Abdul Herrera[/URL][/B], a 6-10 center who originally signed with Cincinnati out of Panama City and has verbally committed to Kansas State.[/QUOTE] [URL=http://www.hutchnews.com/Sports/hccmen]link[/URL]
KSU wants Herrera to come in and make an immediate impact. KSU has been telling Herrera that Michael Beasley will be bolting (to the NBA) after the year, so Herrera will need to come in and make an impact. :lol::shades:
Hilarity ensues. BTW, UNLV was indeed the scrapped visit.
[QUOTE=NLP;259654]Hilarity ensues. BTW, UNLV was indeed the scrapped visit.[/QUOTE]
Ha! My Columbo-like abilities again serve me well.
An interesting note: The Herrera verbal is without a doubt the quietest 4-star transfer that I’ve ever seen. One solitary article from a newspaper in Hutchinson. While we’d be thumping our chests if a De’Angelo Alexander-type transfered here tomorrow… the KSU media is strangley humble about it.
D’ya think they’re waiting until after Keller’s Oct. 5 visit to ‘break the news’? Wouldn’t want Keller to ask too many questions, huh?
hmm…
EDIT: NLP, did the article mention Charlotte?
Rivals now has him visiting us 10/19 (is that midnight madness)? He says playing time is a major factor for him (all according to Rivals).
reports out of Kstate is that they are no longer recruiting Keller!? Couldnt find anything solid on it…but the purps seem pretty pissed about it.
Rivals now has him visiting us 10/19 (is that midnight madness)? He says playing time is a major factor for him (all according to Rivals).According to the Lite-Brite countdown, Keller is making a MM visit.
[COLOR=black]http://blogs.kansas.com/kstated/2007/10/recruiting-upda.html[/COLOR]
Dominique Keller, the 6-foot-7 forward from Lee (Texas) College, is not coming to Manhattan this weekend, and if he does in the future, it might be as a Oklahoma State Cowboy or a Nebraska Cornhusker. Keller said this morning that he was told K-State had landed another commitment. Hmmm.... His coach, Roy Champagne, confirmed that the Wildcats had a change of plans. “They moved in another direction,” Champagne said. “They didn’t mention where they were looking. ... But they did a great job of recruiting Dominique. They were very upfront the whole time, the entire staff.” Champagne added that Charlotte, Oklahoma State and Nebraska are all now involved with Keller.
From what I can tell reading from the kstate fans…kstate may have shot themselves in the foot. It seems that kstate, who was very high on Keller, started to flirt with another Juco wing in Mario Little. They seemed to think they were getting Little…so they backed off of Keller.
Just days ago…Little ended up signing with the Jayhawks.