Tuesday, May 5, 2009

New Mexico State lands a big

Coach Marvin Menzies has signed a big (on May 5) but a kid with a strong whiff of academic eligibility problems for 2009-2010 season. But he also sounds like someone worth waiting for if he has sit out.

Brandon West's ESPN Evaluation:

February, 2009: This long and very athletic forward is an aggressive live body on both ends of the court... Go here for the remainder.

Go and scroll down to "Basketball Recruiting Scoop" to read more about the young man.

Message board chatter is often unreliable (that's right up there with the sun rises in the east in the tell-us-something-we-didn't-know category) but it isn't that difficult to get into an SEC school and attending Louisiana State supposedly was West's desire. The kid appears to be a solid talent but if Trent Johnson didn't think he was eligible... But then again, LSU has so many different options when it comes to signing players and maybe there was no need to take a chance.

By the way, what is this kid's present height and weight? Both numbers seem all over the map in various articles we located.

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