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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
A lost recruit; Faye to start?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
You’re right Techsters, Cedric Everson’s falling out with the football program is not as simple as him failing to return phone calls, but it’s not much more complex than that symptom of bigger problem. Lose a commit, shoot the messenger, huh? “Fire up the hounds, Buzz; we gotta go whack a hack!”
He hasn’t been solid in his commitment. Period. He’s been difficult for coaches to reach, waffled in much of what he says when he is reached, changed schedules, been unclear in his explanations of some things, and so forth. See a picture taking shape?
There have been other symptoms that set him apart from the test of Tech’s class, which is comprised of kids who already are remarkably close to one another even though they haven’t started school yet (except for Morgan and Threet). Every recruit has at least one or two fellow commits that he seems to stay in touch with, text message, etc. Some kids stay in touch with several future teammates.
Ced was a black sheep. Didn’t talk to anybody, was difficult to read, predict, count on, etc. No need going into more detail about a player who wasn’t even yet in the program. Everson was not fitting.
Enough. He’s a kid. He’s very talented. Perhaps he’ll be a fine college player. But not at Tech.
Gailey is supposed to make an in-home visit tonight with Baton Rouge defensive end Jason Peters, and on Sunday with Oxnard, Calif., athlete Malachi Lewis.
Hoops …
At Maryland tonight, Paul Hewitt said he’s likely to move Mouhammad Faye back into the starting lineup at wing after starting Mario West there at North Carolina. Both are defense-oriented, but Faye was taken out of the starting lineup against the Tar Heels chiefly because he had been playing tentatively. And, he had 10 turnovers in the three previous ACC games.
Mario doesn’t turn the ball over, but his offense, or lack thereof (didn’t score from the field at UNC, and passed up several wide open shots after missing his first couple) some exceptions in other games notwithstanding. He’ll continue to play plenty.
