Yannick Atanga to Santa Clara

A.W. Prince/Silver and Blue Sports is reporting that 6-foot-6 Besant High frontcourter Yannick Atanga has committed to Santa Clara of the West Coast Conference.

From a September interview with Randy Berlin (Atanga's basketball coach) at the The Slipper Still Fits (Gonzaga ) site comes this school recruiting profile of Atanga:

It seems like almost every school in the WCC has offered Yannick. San Diego, San Fran, and LMU have offered. Portland has offered and is coming after him really hard. Washington St. is showing heavy interest and URI (Rhode Island) from the east coast is very interested. UCSB and Coach Williams are recruiting him really hard. Yannick probably has the closest relationship with Coach Williams at UCSB, and even though they are not as big of a name, that will be very important for Yannick.

That same article indicates Atanga was to officially visit Nevada and Santa Clara and also that he attended the Santa Clara Elite Camp.

Once again, we will scorn those Nevada fans who aren't ponying up for a Silver and Blue Sports sub. Just look at all the other WAC sites and there's no comparison of value for your money. Heck, look at some of the high major sites that A.W. puts to shame.

On a completely different note, can someone please influence A.W. to also operate a West Coast basketball recruiting site. Nobody -- a strong statement but it's true -- is better connected than A.W.

The key is how would such a site make some coin, er, make that bills. It's difficult, if not possible, to make it a go if a site isn't affiliated with a particular school because subscribers want scoops on their particular school -- not necessarily a geographic area.

Of course, the other question is how would A.W. get any sleep or ever see his family if he took on yet another site?

But if he does, we're buying stock in Jolt Cola.