I spoke with Scout.com’s Dave Telep today – and if you didn’t check out the blog he and Evan Daniels handled yesterday, you missed some top-notch stuff – for tomorrow’s story on Kansas State’s signing class.
Quick tease – he’s impressed, especially with Wally Judge.
But I also used the call as an opportunity to gauge what type of player the Wildcats were getting in Curtis Kelly, the transfer from UConn who will be eligible next season as a junior. Here’s what he had to say about Kelly, the former New York City phenom:
“It has everything to do with Curtis… He has the talent to play for money. But it’s always been about Curtis. I think he had some growing up to do coming out of high school. He was easily distracted – it was easy to take him out of his game. He should have been a McDonald’s All-American – he had that type of ability.
“He has to get all of his distractions out. If he can do that, he can make money doing this someday. This is his last chance.”
Think he’ll thrive playing in Manhattan under Frank Martin?
From the Kansas State sports information department:
Kansas State men’s basketball coach Frank Martin announced the signing of four high school seniors to National Letters of Intent on the second day of the fall signing period on Thursday.
The four-man recruiting class, which is considered one of the nation’s best classes, includes Jordan Henriquez (Winchendon [Mass.] School/Port Chester, N.Y.), Wally Judge (Arlington (Fla.) Country Day/Washington, D.C.), Rodney McGruder (Arlington (Fla.) Country Day/Washington, D.C.) and Nick Russell (Grace Preparatory Academy/Arlington, Texas).
“It is an exciting time for us at Kansas State,” said Martin. “All the hard work by the assistant coaches to go out and promote our program and sell K-State to potential recruits – it comes through in a recruiting class that we are extremely excited about because of the make-up of kids as people and what we think of them as players. It was important with this class that we continue to add athleticism to our team. We have done that when you consider the guys that we have signed. We also wanted to add some size at the guard play and we have done that with Nick and Rodney.”
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