New and inventive ways of recruiting by Bill Self...and more on Bruce Pearl, etc.....

Bill Self is the king of the package deal....
he landed Mario Chalmers by hiring Chalmers' dad as an assistant coach, then canned the senior Chalmers just as soon as the kid graduated.
He recruited and landed Xavier Henry's basketball talent deficient brother just so he could get Xavier.

For years he's hired guys like Sherron Collins' head coach and other players' family members to staff summer camps, paying them bundles to do little - as a passable way of funneling money to and landing recruits.

Now he's found yet another way to pull off the package deal.

Here's a story out of IMG Academy that is kind of obscure and not getting much press.

Besides Phillip Greene and Jamari Traylor at IMG - kids BU has recruited -- there's yet another kid there who is the subject of an intense recruiting battle.

it is this kid, DeAndre Daniels, the #9 ranked kid nationally and one of the TOP 3 small forwards in the nation...
http://is.gd/QypU9w

Daniels is being heavily recruited by BOTH Kansas (Bill Self) and Kentucky (John Calipari) and others...but most experts believe this is an enormous battle and BIDDING war between Self & Calipari.

Daniels is the absolute HIGHEST ranked kid in the country who has yet to sign!
http://is.gd/9ksmn6

But Bill Self pulled a fine move yesterday and landed a preemptive strike!!
Talk about tricky -- here's what Self did...
DeAndre Daniels' best friend at IMG Academy and really his best friend for many years since high school and AAU ball, is another far less talented basketball player on the team named Christian Garrett.

Garrett is also a 2011 recruit but is zero-stars and not getting the least bit of recruiting attention from any D-I's

BUT Bill Self sees the opportunity to score points in the DeAndre Daniels battle and talked Christian Garrett into leaving IMG at mid-season,
and with enough credits officially to graduate. Garrett already graduated from high school and was doing a post-grad year at IMG hoping for some offers...
NOW ---- Garrett is SUDDENLY a full time enrolled student AT Kansas, and is ON the basketball team!!!
He is reportedly going to have to walk on this spring semester all the scholarships are taken, but is said to be in line for a scholarship next fall.
Whoa...wonder if Self will put DeAndre's girlfriend on the team, too!!! Or hire his parents as assistant coaches!
http://is.gd/jpZW6L
http://is.gd/PK7VKA

Garrett & Daniels have long best best friends even from their high school and AAU days in California...
and they even shopped prep schools together and chose IMG over South Kent so they could be together...so this is a good sign for Bill Self.
Here's a story in which Garrett himself says they are going to stick together, take their visits together and select a place to play where they can be together!
http://is.gd/cELXjY


So Bill Self again wins the creative award for the trickiest recruiting...nice when you have an unlimited budget!



Here's a newsflash....University of Tennessee and Bruce Pearl just investigated themselves and claim...
"There's NO NCAA VIOLATIONS!!"
yeah -- right.........
http://is.gd/kuQ5qa

BUT now -- the details of this story indicate Tennessee is either lying or blind! Clearly Woolridge got a special favor because he was a star on the basketball team and THAT IS an NCAA violation!
http://is.gd/zMghTm

Some may think I pick on Tennessee a lot, but these are real stories of cheating happening almost daily there....Bruce and his gang of cheats and thugs kinda make it easy to cite all their violations!



How much more proof does anyone need to let go of the crop circle argument to prove aliens?
http://is.gd/zgnNDt

Just think, your kids can buy and use a book bag that proves they are BETTER than their friends!
http://is.gd/yM4Q74