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'12 IN SG Gary Harris (Michigan State Verbal)

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LitlBuck;2006753; said:
Don't quite understand why we are taking a second run at a wing player unless TM thanks that possibly one of our wings, besides Buford, will not be returning next year.
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Gotta wonder if one of the young guys has been looking damn good lately in Matta's IMO.
 
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Matta likes to play as many as 4 wings at once but typically 3 at a time. We really aren't that deep if you reall look at the SG/SF position beyond this season.

At the start of next season, (if Ross doesnt return) we will only have Thompson that is a natural 3.

Smith and Sibert are undersized.

Thomas and Spoon are more PFs than SFs.

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Harris is a 6'6" SG/SF with long arms and good shooting range. If Matta can sign him and a big, I think it fits perfectly. Harris could also play PG in a pinch if Scott would happen to leave after this season.

From watching highlights only, I think Harris compares to Buford. Maybe Matta is looking for Buford's replacement?
 
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korchiki;2011879; said:
Supposedly IU self reported a violation for running into him during the non-contact period
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shocking... not the kids fault

For Christmas, I'm going to buy Indiana University basketball coach Tom Crean and refrigerator. I might even go to the trouble of color-coding them: red for no-contact recruiting periods, yellow for evaluation periods, green for contact periods.

Granted, this isn't the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby: the secondary violation IU's basketball program reported almost immediately this week regarding the recruitment of Hamilton Southeastern's Gary Harris. The cutthroat world of high-stakes basketball recruiting is rife with egregious forms of cheating. Some schools are engaging in grand larceny; this goof-up is like failing to come to a full and complete stop at a stop sign.
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http://www.indystar.com/article/201...dyssey=nav|head&odyssey=mod|dnmiss|umbrella|1
 
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Recruit's parents learn to speak cautiously
Oct. 18, 2011
Written by JEFF WASHBURN

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Hamilton Southeastern boys basketball standout Gary Harris, right, with his mother, Joy Holmes Harris, who was an All-American at Purdue in the early 1990s. / By Matt Kryger/The Indianapolis Star

FISHERS -- Joy Holmes Harris and her husband, Gary, don't enjoy filtering almost everything they say these days.

The former Purdue women's basketball standout and her spouse, who also graduated from Purdue, are the parents of Hamilton Southeastern two-sport star Gary Harris. Harris is a prize basketball recruiting target whose final list of schools is comprised of Purdue, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan State.

When young Gary speaks, Tweets or texts, countless fans hang on his every word. Joy and Gary Sr. understand it's all part of having a high-profile athlete as a son. They also understand the recruiting process.

After earning All-American honors at Purdue and playing professionally in Japan, in the old American Basketball League and then in the WNBA, Joy coached at Middle Tennessee State, Cincinnati and IUPUI. Her duties included recruiting players.

However, with social media growing every day, recruiting has changed. Recently, young Gary Tweeted that he was thirsty for some Florida orange juice.

Within minutes, Joy and Gary Sr. were bombarded with texts and calls, asking if Gary was being recruited by Florida.

The answer was no. This was an orange juice issue.

"It's different ... a lot different," Holmes Harris said when asked how recruiting has changed since she was a high school star in Mansfield, Ohio. "I did go through it, but not on this magnitude like Gary is going through right now.

"Social media has just blown everything up. I think it's a lot harder on kids now. Everything that they say is scrutinized. But our whole thing is that we just try to keep him level-headed. I always tell him, 'They spend four years telling you how good you are, and then it's going to be four years of how you are not that good.' "

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http://www.jconline.com/article/201...0318/Recruit-s-parents-learn-speak-cautiously
 
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