Saturday's early WAC report

AW Prince is on a roll (actually he's always on a roll) and back with video of Nevada recruit Jordan Burris. Go here and a sub is required.

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Eric Bossi of Rivals is reporting that Louisiana Tech (and many others) has offered 6-foot-8 Forrest Robinson, who plays for the Houston Select club team and attends Eastland High in Texas. Go here and a Rivals sub is required. Here is the young man's MySpace site. Here is a January 2010 feature from the local newspaper.

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Former New Mexico Stater Justin Hawkins is exploring sponsoring a Las Cruces-based club basketball team. Jason Groves offers the details.

A brief Jordan Burris note

We thought it worthwhile to note that Nevada signee Jordan Burris scored 52 points in a recent overtime game against Notre Dame - Sherman Oaks.

Here's a link to the game.

Chris Murray on the Burris commit

Chris Murray checks in with his coverage of Jordan Burris' commitment to Nevada:

Burris commits to play for Wolf Pack next year
Chris Murray
Reno Gazette-Journal
10/14/2009

Jordan Burris has made Nevada basketball coach David Carter a very happy man.

Burris, a 6-foot-6 wing from Stockdale High School in Bakersfield, Calif., told Carter on Wednesday night that he has was verbally committing to play for his Nevada Wolf Pack next season.

"When I told him, he said I made his day," Burris said.

Burris, who visited the Nevada campus two weeks ago, said the trip to Reno helped cement his decision to join the Wolf Pack...

Go here for the remainder.

Nevada lands a recruit

Per A.W. Prince at his Silver and Blue Nevada site, Coach Carter has received a verbal commitment from 6-foot-6 Bakersfield High wing Jordan Burris. Go here for the news -- scroll down to the seventh category on the message board..

As an aside, to be a Nevada fan requires ownership of a sub to the Silver and Blue site, no ifs ands or buts. What's the cost, something like a sixpack a month? We'd use the example of say a couple of lattes but the world knows the Wolf Pack supporters are no latte-sipping crew. That's not how they roll.

Chris Murray previews Jordan Burris & Yannick Atanga

Coach David Carter has at least two visitors coming in to Reno this weekend and Chris Murray offers background on both:

A deeper look at Wolf Pack recruit Jordan Burris
Chris Murray
Reno Gazette-Journal
10/1/2009

As we wrote earlier this week, Nevada will host recruits Jordan Burris and Yannick Atanga this weekend. I've flagged down a pair of Burris' coaches so you could get a little better understanding about his game, strengths and potential to play at Nevada. The first coach I spoke with was Oliver Brown, who will be Burris' coach at Stockdale High in Bakersfield, Calif., this season. Brown took over the program this summer. He said Burris has recruiting visists scheduled this week at Nevada, next week at Lamar University and the following week at Pepperdine.

"I’ve gotten several calls," Brown said. "There's mild interest from different schools. Highly interested schools are Pepperdine, Nevada, Lamar University, which is in the Texas area, and Fresno State. Mild interest, TCU, San Jose State, UC Irvine and UC Riverside. ... I would say the top of his list is certainly Nevada. I would say it’s between Nevada and Pepperdine, but that’s just from when I talked to him (Monday)."

Go here for the lengthy and informative remainder.

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Wolf Pack recruit Yannick Atanga burgeoning with potential
Chris Murray
Reno Gazette-Journal
10/1/2009

Earlier today, we took a look at basketball recruit Jordan Burris, who is visiting Nevada this weekend. Now it's time to learn a little about Yannick Atanga, who also will be visiting Reno this weekend (he leaves Thursday night with his coach Randy Bertin).

Since coach David Carter took over the program in April, the Wolf Pack has twice dipped into the international pool for recruits — first with London native Patrick Nyeko and then with Serbian big man Marko Cukic. Atanga fits the same mold. He was born in Cameroon's capital city of Yaounde (also the birth place of ex-UCLA star Luc Richard Mbah a Moute) and moved to the United States three years ago...

Go here for the lengthy and informative remainder.

Chris Murray on two Nevada visitors

Is it important/somewhat of a factor/negligible for a school's football team to win a game when basketball recruits are on campus and taking in the game? Our sense it might give a recruit a sense about the support shown for basketball if such is translatable but other than that, well, we're going with not much at all.

With such in mind, Chris Murray has the details on two prep frontcourters who will be taking in the sounds and sights of the University of Nevada, its football team and a choice restaurant or two this weekend.

Go here for the details.

If you were Coach Carter, who on the roster do you choose to host these two guys? Brandon Fields with Burris? Who for Atanga?