On the recruiting trail, apparently Gary made a strong impression on Lake Clifton’s Will Barton on an in school visit last week. The Terrapins continue to go after Florida de-commit DeShawn Painter, who would be available in 2009. Landon Milbourne has surgery on his foot today and is expected to make a quick recovery.
According to Adam Zagoria, Lance Stephenson has all but ruled out St Johns, thinks Gary’s system is too structured, and seems to be waiting for a call from Memphis program wrecker, Coach Calipari. Too structured–has Lance or Zagoria ever watched Greivis? Full court pressure and fast breaking at every opportunity—that is a structured system? Lance wakeup, commit to the Terps already!!!
Within a few minutes of finding out about Terrence Ross’ verbal to the Terps, I called Stu Vetter, Terrence’s coach at Montrose to tell him of my absolute joy in hearing the info. Stu commented that Ross is getting better day by day. When I saw him at a game at Montrose late in the year, I was immediately impressed by his gracefulness in playing the game. The sky is the limit for Ross. With another year under the tutelage … Read More »
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Subjects—Recruitment of Lance Stephenson –Basketball recruits, Lacrosse, Braxton Leaves, Terps in the Draft, NFL Draft, Don Brown, Defensive Coordinator
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All was quiet on the Lance Stephenson front yesterday except for my explanation of why Maryland is the place for Born Ready as heard on Terp talk last night. Listen to the first 15 minutes of the show which will be on the site in a few minutes.
Well X is going to Kansas, so Lance’s Kansas dream has ended. It’s Judgement day for Lance. Continued indecision will hurt Lance in many ways, Here are just some of the reasons Lance should come to Maryland.
Pros of Lance coming to Maryland
—Look at Gary and Franchise (Steve Francis)–2nd pick in NBA draft
—Joe Smith 1st pick after sophomore season has been playing an integral part in the rush to finish for Cleveland.
—New York is the mecca of … Read More »
The timing of this announcement is very curious, Here is some speculation.
1—Most experts believe that Greivis is gone either to the NBA or Europe.
2–The Henry brothers canceled their trip to Kentucky thus leading to speculation that a Kansas commitment is on the way.
3– Lance’s dad has said repeatedly that he wants to find out exactly what Greivis intends to do.
4– Vinson is out of the picture though many believe he never considered Maryland.
5- Braxton … Read More »
Last Friday night–Gary had in home visit with Born Ready
Gary and Assistant Coach Chuck Driesell were at Hargrave Military Academy yesterday paying a visit to DeShawn Painter, the recently de-committed prospect, according to the Terrapin Times.
Today, Gary will visit with Mychal Parker and Hippolyte Tsafack at the Miller School in Virginia.
Yesterday Chuck Dreisell was at the Word of God Academy today to check out junior forward C.J. Leslie.( source terrapintimes.com)who recently decommitted from NC State.
Gary has personally … Read More »
#4 in the middle of the Baltimore connection apparently has decided to leave Maryland for either Loyola (Jim Patsos) or Tulane (Dave Dickerson), Keith Cavanaugh reported in the terrapin times website tonight. Braxton is a good kid who just hasn’t reached his potential for the Terps and with the coming of Jordan Williams and James Padgett, Braxton would have found it … Read More »
From Trans World News comes the news that X has canceled his trip to Kentucky. Why does a Terrapin fan care about this? Kansas coach Bill Self threatened that if X took an official visit to Kentucky then he was off the Jayhawk want list. Expect Xavier to commit to Kansas within 48 hours. That leaves lance with his decision that I have gone over enough. Logic says he comes to Maryland , but we shall see.
From the Terrapintimes.com … Read More »
