Miller is a combo guard at South Meck H.S.
From Langston Wertz in today’s Big O…
South Mecklenburg rising junior Ian Miller is turning into one of the hottest college basketball prospects in the Southeast. Miller, a powerfully built 6-foot-2 guard, has offers from Florida State and Kentucky.Link: CharlotteObserver.com
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[QUOTE]By Langston Wertz Jr.
lwertz@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Monday, Aug. 11, 2008
KLAGENFURT, Austria Ian Miller, one of Mecklenburg County’s top basketball prospects, will enroll at private United Faith Christian today, his father told the Observer.
Julian Miller said he planned to withdraw his son from South Mecklenburg this morning. Ian Miller averaged more than 20 points per game as a sophomore for the Sabres and was named to the All-Observer basketball team, signifying him as one of the top 15 players in the newspaper’s two-state coverage area.
Julian Miller said he was moving his son, who will be a junior at United Faith, to help him get better prepared academically for college. [B]He said his son, a 6-foot-3 guard, has offers from Virginia, Virginia Tech, Marquette, Florida State, Clemson, Miami, Kentucky, UNC-Greensboro, Hampton, East Carolina, Western Carolina, Ohio State and [COLOR=DarkGreen][B]Charlotte[/B].[/[/COLOR]
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Not sure why the story came out of Austria but we have offered. Persinger must be in China or something.
Goes to United Faith now
Committed to Florida State.
Hope he enjoys underacheiving.
As far as “Underachieving” at Florida State, here are both programs records and post season stats. Pretty similar; we did make the NCAA 2 of the last 5 years.
Charlotte:
2007-08: 19-14 (NIT, Lost 1st rd)
2006-07: 14 -16
2005-06: 19-13 (NIT, Lost 2nd rd)
2004-05: 21-8 (NCAA, Lost 1st rd)
2003-04: 21-9 (NCAA, Lost 1st rd)
2002-03: 13-16
Florida State:
2007-08: 19-15 (NIT, Lost 1st rd)
2006-07: 22-13 (NIT, Lost 3rd rd)
2005-06: 20-10 (NIT, Lost 2nd rd)
2004-05: 12-19
2003-04: 19-14 (NIT, Lost 2nd rd)
2002-03: 14-15
FSU? Are you kidding me? They got to the NIT because they are in the ACC. It had nothing to do with them being good or anything. That program should just give up. If this kid picked FSU over anyone it’s probably best we didn’t get him. Good luck with that…
His old man played for Hamilton. Not a bad reason at all, comfort level is there I guess.
s9er beat me to it
FSU has a decent history of producing NBA players and gets a ton of national TV coverage (relative to their on-court performance). I think it’s a much better choice for a guy like him than Memphis, Chapel Hill or some other perennial top 20 team where he would go to ride the pine. He’s going to get his chance to play and he’s going to have the chance to help turn that program around, it’s the same situation we would have been offering him (lots of PT, not much national success the past few years), I don’t see why this decision deserves to be attacked. Other than the obvious that not picking Charlotte makes it a terrible decision…
agreed cmack. what we should be doing rather than bad mouthing this kids decision is focus on the prospects that are still available.
[QUOTE=ninerfan55;354427]agreed cmack. what we should be doing rather than bad mouthing this kids decision is focus on the prospects that are still available.[/QUOTE]
that is what coaches are for, this is what message boards are for.
If he has semi-family ties to the school it makes more sense. I wasn’t trying to linger on this and not focus on who we can still get. I’m over it. FSU is just so ****ty.
[QUOTE=49or bust;354430]If he has semi-family ties to the school it makes more sense. I wasn’t trying to linger on this and not focus on who we can still get. I’m over it. FSU is just so ****ty.[/QUOTE]
Charlotte’s no picnic the last few years.
On the flip side, from what we have seen thus far I feel good about what all the staff is doing. I have high confidence we will get quality guys [B]we really want.[/B]
[QUOTE=s9er;354436]On the flip side, from what we have seen thus far I feel good about what all the staff is doing. I have high confidence we will get quality guys [B]we really want.[/B][/QUOTE]
I hope so. I can’t complain about the team we fielded last year.
Charlotte's no picnic the last few years.True, but FSU has never been a picnic.
[QUOTE=49or bust;354438]True, but FSU has never been a picnic.[/QUOTE]
They have had some decent teams. And they have had NBA talent there. Seriously, can you name one NBA standout from Charlotte in the last 20 years?
As far as "Underachieving" at Florida State, here are both programs records and post season stats. Pretty similar; we did make the NCAA 2 of the last 5 years.Charlotte:
2007-08: 19-14 (NIT, Lost 1st rd)
2006-07: 14 -16
2005-06: 19-13 (NIT, Lost 2nd rd)
2004-05: 21-8 (NCAA, Lost 1st rd)
2003-04: 21-9 (NCAA, Lost 1st rd)
2002-03: 13-16Florida State:
2007-08: 19-15 (NIT, Lost 1st rd)
2006-07: 22-13 (NIT, Lost 3rd rd)
2005-06: 20-10 (NIT, Lost 2nd rd)
2004-05: 12-19
2003-04: 19-14 (NIT, Lost 2nd rd)
2002-03: 14-15
FSU has a decent history of producing NBA players and gets a ton of national TV coverage (relative to their on-court performance). I think it's a much better choice for a guy like him than Memphis, Chapel Hill or some other perennial top 20 team where he would go to ride the pine. He's going to get his chance to play and he's going to have the chance to help turn that program around, it's the same situation we would have been offering him (lots of PT, not much national success the past few years), I don't see why this decision deserves to be attacked. Other than the obvious that not picking Charlotte makes it a terrible decision...
My comment was directed at many of the players not named Al Thornton who went to FSU highly touted and didn’t quite pan out. Trust me, my heart is not broken, but I don’t know how many times I’ve heard of top players going there and either transferring, or not being as good as advertised. My comment was b/c he chose FSU, not that he did not chose Charlotte.
if ian miller is projected to be a shooting guard in college then maybe he didnt like the idea of us having bowden and barnett.