Recruit visiting Bradley, and more...

So who are the recruits visiting Bradley?? I think we can deduce one of them...

Here's a tweet by someone who identifies herself as "sportsmomsinc"..
This tweet is from about 10AM yesterday morning and it clearly identifies that she is accompanying her youngest son "Jay" on his visit to Bradley...
"Taggin' along with young Jay to Bradley University in Peoria, Ill on his 1st official visit!"

It only takes a few clicks to find that sportsmomsinc is Sylvia Crawford...

And it only takes a click or two more to find that she is a businesswoman and publicist and the mother of ex-Kentucky star Joe Crawford, ex-Xavier and current NBA'er Jordan Crawford, and the current Las Vegas Impact Academy player Jalen Crawford.

It also appears that Geno Ford knew about Jalen as far back as early March and went to see Jalen play in Las Vegas and offered him a scholarship on March 20. Jalen was going to make plans to visit Kent State, but changed his plans to come to Peoria when Geno was hired as Bradley head coach.

Jalen Crawford also tweets about making the flight...and tweets later about flying over so many farm fields! He also describes his visit as "coo so far" -- coo being a term for "cool" in the urban dictionary..

Also, one Ohio sports reporter gets wind of Jalen visting Bradley and also makes a few tweet comments since he happens to be a Bradley grad!

The other visitor might just be one of the kids who just got done de-committing to Dayton after their coaching change...


Dodie's brother Brandon Dunson simply is not going to get any playing time at Arizona State....now he realizes it was a bad mistake going there and has asked for his release and will be transferring.
http://www.houseofsparky.com/2011/3/29/2080132/brandon-dunson-to-transfer-asu-loses-another-player
http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/DougHaller/123732


Another well travelled kid, Cully Payne lands at Loyola...
New Loyola coach Porter Moser gets a good point guard if he can convince Cully to stay and not change his mind again...
Cully has been either at or committed to SIX different schools over the past 3 years!!
He changed high schools, then verballed to DePaul, Alabama, then Iowa -- now transfers to Loyola.
He will have to sit out next year and should still have two years left....

Oddly, one report out of Chicago says he could have three years left to play at Loyola, but I cannot see how that could possibly happen.
Cully spent his freshman season at Iowa in 2009-2010, the only played 5 games in 2010-2011 and should get that year as a redshirt year.
But his transfer will force him to sit out 2011-2012 and not be eligible until fall of 2012....then his 5-year clock would only have two years remaining -- so he wouldn't be able to play 3 years at Loyola.


Another ex-BU recruit is in the news...Abdel Nader -- from Niles North.
Nader is not going to graduate or be eligible - so his plans now are to reclassify as a 2012 recruit and go to high school an extra year at La Lumiere Academy in La Porte, IN. Also at La Lumiere next year will be ex-Peoria Central Antonio Bobo Drummond and Hanner Perea.


Daniel Ruffin's brother and ex-Peoria Central grad AJ Guyton is doing some coaching this summer.
He is the coach of the NEW Peoria ABA team....the Midwest Flames!!
http://is.gd/YMlh1P

"A.J. Guyton
I am proud to announce I will be the head coach of Peoria's new ABA team
the Midwest Flames. It is a great opportunity to represent Peoria once again,
help quality basketball players maximize their potential, and move one step
closer to my goal. All the support I have recieved on fbook has been tremendous, please continue, I need it!"

BTW -- AJ Guyton just spent this past season as an assistant basketball coach at ICC under Tony Wysinger. ICC basketball really doesn't get much coverage and very few people even knew AJ was now into coaching.
http://www.icc.edu/athletics/basketballM/coachingStaff.asp

Here's more on the Midwest Flames that will start play next season...
also on the coaching staff will be Steve Turner -- ex-Richwoods star..
http://is.gd/uRT8hy

http://sites.google.com/site/midwestflamespeoria/

The Midwest Flames are holding tryouts...June 11!!
http://abalive.com/aba-league-news/midwest-flames-tryouts/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Midwest-Flames/197097446988505