Eighth Grader Commits to Kentucky; Undecided on High School

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MORNING ROUNDUP - 5/05/08
Published 5/5/2008 by eirishis at Thirtyfive Seconds
... Late last week, Michael Avery, a guard from Encino, CA, committed to play for Billy Gillespie at Kentucky. A good late-signing season get for the Wildcats? We’ll know when Avery starts playing college ball … in 2012. Sure, he doesn’t know where he is going to high school, or how to drive, or where (or what) the clitoris is, but dammit all, he is proud to be a Wildcat! ...

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Published 5/30/2008 by MaconDawg at Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts
... Also, the arguments in favor of any early signing period sound good in theory, but will empirically disappear. The early signing period for basketball has not "stopped the madness". It's accelerated it. The basketball early signing period (along with AAU madness) helps Billie Gillespie be the only man in Kentucky chasing eighth grade boys around  without having to register his name and address with the state. An early signing period will not solve the core problem: college football coaches and their schools have millions of dollars riding on the outcome of ...