Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Lean pickings so far

Brian Murphy confirms that Coach Leon Rice is really preparing for the future with a verbal from a 2011 backcourter.

New Boise State men's coach lands his first recruit for 2011
Brian Murphy
Idaho Statesman
4/20/10

Joe Hanstad has known new Boise State basketball coach Leon Rice for more than three years, and Hanstad knows Rice wouldn't have left Gonzaga for just any job.

"It'd have to be pretty big time. Gonzaga is really nice. I know he wouldn't go from a winning program to a place he wasn't sure they were going to win," said Hanstad, a 6-foot-4, 185-pound combo guard who committed to play for Rice and the Broncos...
Go here for the remainder.

What we find interesting here -- besides the landing of a down-the-road recruit which is atypical for a WAC team -- is that Coach Rice reached out immediately to Hanstad. Was this something Rice and Mark Few agreed upon or did Rice act unilaterally? Maybe it was a situation where Hanstad was viewed as more of a WAC-level prospect than that a prominent 'national' team or possibly that the Zags have so many more options in the recruiting pool than the Broncos that Few bowed out on this one.

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Keith Shamburger's Twitter account has this as its latest entry "Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow. :-)" -- it was posted late last night. He returned home yesterday from his weekend visit to UH.

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