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Royce Woolridge from Sunnyslope High in Phoenix, AZ.
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Jayhawks get basketball commitment from high school sophomore
By J. BRADY McCOLLOUGH
The Kansas City Star
LAWRENCE | How much can a national championship help in recruiting? The Kansas basketball program found out on Wednesday night when Royce Woolridge, a high school sophomore from Phoenix, Ariz., gave an oral commitment to KU for the class of 2010.
“Royce told me last night,” said Dan Mannix, Woolridge’s coach at Sunnyslope High. “I think there are a few factors. Obviously, Kansas has a great program, one he really admires. He had talked about a few schools that really stood out – if you could play for them, he’d like to, and that was one of them.”
While KU doesn’t yet have a commitment for the Class of 2009, the Jayhawks already have one for the following year. Rivals.com called Woolridge’s commitment the earliest in Arizona history. Woolridge, a 6-foot-2 shooting guard, chose KU over UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, California and Georgetown.
“He’s a scorer,” Mannix said. “That’s the best way I could describe him right now. He has really deep range for a young guy. You can’t teach 23-foot range, and he has that. He would probably be more of a combo guard. He can break people down off the dribble.”
Mannix expects Woolridge to grow a couple more inches before he comes to KU. After all, Woolridge’s father, Orlando, was 6-foot-9 and played 13 seasons in the NBA.
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yeah I saw this. His brother committed to Tennessee will be a freshman this year but his brother played in So Cal. So did the family move to Arizona or do the brothers not live together?
My understanding is the kid UCLA, ASU, UA and USC all want at that spot in that class is Tyler Lamb, but I know they were all recruiting Woolridge too.
We need to find a way to keep kansas and UNC out of Southern California!
We need to find a way to keep kansas and UNC out of Southern California!
Kansas has been doing it for awhile now. It's not a new thing. I'm pretty sure they use cult mind washing tactics to convince kids to move from the beach to Kansas.
High school sophomores are now committing to colleges?
This is idiocy. The kid's dad should be throttled.
This has been going on for more than a decade now, just not in Arizona because Arizona having more than one high major D-1 recruit identified before their senior year is a relatively new phenomenon.
High school sophomores are now committing to colleges?
This is idiocy. The kid's dad should be throttled.
Skkorp you don't know the half of it. Kentucky got a verbal yesterday from a kid from Thousand Oaks Ca who's a 15 year old 8th grader! I don't know what's worse another 8th grader committing to a college, or the fact that this kid is 15 in 8th grade because his parents had him repeat 8th grade so he'd be more physically mature.
I was 15 at the start of my junior year of HS(turned 16 in November).
This has been going on for more than a decade now, just not in Arizona because Arizona having more than one high major D-1 recruit identified before their senior year is a relatively new phenomenon.
Yep Soph verbals are somewhat common, UCLA has one from Kendall Williams who's the same year as Woolridge. In fact UCLA had a 2010 commit before they had any commits from 2009.
The thing to remember is verbal commits are completely meaningless the kid can change his mind at any time it's not binding, and the team can change their mind too. It does suck that these guys get recruited hard at this age but it's certainly not just Kansas the whole country is after these young kids.
There's a lot of time left in this kid's recruitment and if he doesn't grow I'd expect KU to recruit over him. I've heard the 6'2 estimate is a complete farce, he's supposedly closer to 5'10 which is why the local schools have yet to offer.
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Kansas has been doing it for awhile now. It's not a new thing. I'm pretty sure they use cult mind washing tactics to convince kids to move from the beach to Kansas.
As opposed to that big beach in AZ
I'm still not sure how you all convince all those UofA recruits that Lute is still alive. Now that's mind washing.
Skkorp you don't know the half of it. Kentucky got a verbal yesterday from a kid from Thousand Oaks Ca who's a 15 year old 8th grader! I don't know what's worse another 8th grader committing to a college, or the fact that this kid is 15 in 8th grade because his parents had him repeat 8th grade so he'd be more physically mature.
I was 15 at the start of my junior year of HS(turned 16 in November).
Not sure. My junior year we had a kid transfer in from anotehr HS who was I think 19 and he was ruled ineligible per CIF age rules but that's 1983. With holdbacks being so common now I'm not sure if the rule has changed seems like 19 at the start of your senior year is not all that unusual now. in fact I think ND QB Jimmy Clausen was 19 at the start of his senior year.
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