Second grader commits to Kentucky

Scooprp posted 5/12/2008 from wkdzsports.typepad.com [flag]

Just days after receiving a verbal commitment from California eighth grader Michael Avery, Billy Gillispie has received his first commitment from the class of 2018. 7-year-old Darrin Brown has announced he will play basketball at the University of Kentucky once he completes elementary school, middle school, and high school (in that order). [link]

Tags:

NCAA Basketball

Kentucky Wildcats

California Golden Bears

Michael Avery

Billy Gillispie

Louisville Cardinals

Comments

Links (1)

What to read while researching the names of obscure bands to bring up in weekend conversations
Published 5/13/2008 by Mike <info@cardchronicle.com> at Card Chronicle: Front Page Posts
... Kentucky finally got a commitment from a player in the class of 2018 when Trigg County's Darrin Brown verballed to the Cats on Friday. You can listen to his press conference ...

Related: kentucky michael avery

Kentucky School President surprised, SURPRISED, when Billy Clyde offers an 8th Grader

Mac Gs World found this 5/6/2008 on loserswithsocks.com

SEC COY discuss Scotty Hopson’s and 8th graders. Received this from Chris from the UK focused Intentional Foul website: In light of the slight hubbub surrounding the University of Kentucky’s signing of Michael Avery, an 8th grader who ...

Is Jerry Tipton the Dread Pirate Roberts?

Fire Billy? found this 5/8/2008 on www.aseaofblue.com

There has been quite a controversy brewing in the last few days here in the Big Blue Nation over a couple of interviews that Marc Maggard of Kentucky Ink did with the parents of two of Kentucky's youngest and most recent verbal commitments -- Vinny ...

A cornucopia of hypocrisy, psychobabble, and just plain ignorance

Posted 5/13/2008 on A Sea Of Blue: Front Page Posts

Well. It's been about a week or so since Michael Avery committed to Kentucky and the whole firestorm about early recruiting consumed the media. I can tell this story is finally starting to lose steam, because most of the opinion pieces on it today are laughable, some of them hilariously so. Some writers, and one academic, are trying so hard to come up with new and ...

Hello, I would like to recruit your eighth grader

Posted 5/9/2008 on Inside the Hall | An Indiana basketball blog

Those of you with eighth graders, relax…I’m only kidding. Most of you know by now that Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie took a commitment last week from Michael Avery, an eighth grader from Thousand Oaks, California. And the reaction from around the country has sparked much needed conversation on how out of control this whole recruiting thing has become. As PostmanE pointed out ...

Posted 5/6/2008 on Aggie Sports Blog

Billy G across the way in Kentucky just picked up a verbal commitment, from an eight grader . Michael Avery, a 6-foot-4 eighth-grader, knows where he will play in four years, but does not know where he will play next year. "That’s the funny thing," Howard Avery said with laugh. "We’ve got our college. Now we need our high school."