I really hate to do this. I do. I’m a Virginia fan, Pete Gillen seems like a genuinely good guy and this kid seems like a good kid. But I just can’t figure out why Virginia offered Stephan Kendall a scholarship. Kendall is a rising junior, meaning he is a recruit for the 2006 class.
Now, I’ve already bitched about Gillen’s signing of players that are not nationally ranked, but bear with me as I do it again. I understand that many college stars weren’t ranked coming out of high school, but I also know that you can’t count on finding those players all the time. In the ACC, you need to land a few top 100 players every year or you’re gonna get your ass handed to you by all the other teams that do.
So, let me run down three problems here. First, the kid just doesn’t sound like he’s an ACC-level player. He plays at Blue Ridge School in Virginia and scored about 10 points a game last year as a shooting guard. I went to high school and played a bunch of sports (not including varsity basketball) in the same league as Blue Ridge, and it’s NOT a top high school league. It’s a league of top private schools, some boarding, made up mostly of rich white kids. 6′ 4″ players like Kendall are usually centers or power forwards in the Prep League. If he’s only scoring 10 points a game, then he’s not elite. I understand he was only a sophomore, but he repeated his sophomore year, so he was actually a junior in age. Guys the other ACC teams are recruiting are scoring 20-25 points a game at that age. If you don’t believe me that Kendall is not a top recruit, google on his name and see how much info you find about him.
The second problem is that Kendall will be the fifth shooting guard on the team. UVA already has rising sophomores Gary Forbes and JR Reynolds, both who deserve starting minutes. In next year’s freshman class, UVA will add two more SGs in Mamadi Diane and Brian Moten, neither of which are highly rated.
The third problem is that Kendall represents the last scholarship UVA has for the class of 2006. So, unless a player transfers, they are already done recruiting every junior and senior in the country! They have no chance to get in late with a rising star, the kind of player UVA really needs to find at this point.
I just don’t get what Gillen is doing. Maybe he’s practicing up for his next job in the MAC.
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