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.

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?

A Yannick Atanga update

The Gonzaga site -- The Slipper Still Fits -- has a very informative update on southern California frontcourter Yannick Atanga. He's a Nevada recruiting target.

Here's a brief cut-and-paste featuring his high school coach: "He has visits setup to Santa Clara and Nevada-Reno. I hope and I think he will take all five visits at this point. He is planning on waiting until the late period to commit and sign, so I think he will have time to take all of his visits."

Go here for the full post.