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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Henry Co. receiver planning trip to Notre Dame
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With football practice set to begin at Henry County on Aug 1, Jamal Patterson intends to carve out enough time over the next week to make the trek to South Bend, Ind. to visit Notre Dame.
“I have a lot of interest in Notre Dame,” said Patterson, whose scholarship offer count recently surpassed 50. “Every offer I get is an honor. But getting an offer from a school like that is really special.”
The 6-foot-2, 195-pound receiver and his Henry County teammates are participating in a national seven-on-seven tournament in Hoover, Ala. today.
On an individual basis, Patterson’s summer has included visits to Auburn, Central Florida, Clemson, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Stanford and Wake Forest.
On Auburn: “Auburn is a great place,” he said. “Coach Tommy Tuberville is a great guy. Their offense is what we run, the spread offense. It’s what we run with our quarterback, Drew Little.”
On Stanford: “I loved coach [Jim] Harbaugh and the whole staff,” he said. “They’re energetic and into the game. It seems like they love doing what they do.”
If not for a scheduling conflict with a national seven-on-seven competition he participated in last week in Oregon, Patterson likely would have attended camp at Georgia on Friday.
The Dogs have yet to offer the talented receiver.
“I had plans to visit them,” Patterson said. “But I want to go to the schools that have offered.”
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Walton point guard Ryan Harrow picks N.C. State
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Walton point guard Ryan Harrow, who recently committed to N.C. State, is showing he is worthy of all the hefty praise this summer.
The 5-foot-11 Harrow is averaging between 20-25 points per game for his AAU basketball team, according to Walton coach Joe Goydish. Harrow sat out his sophomore season at Walton after moving from North Carolina.
“Ryan is really doing well,” Goydish said. “Between Ryan and [Glen Rice Jr.], our frontcourt should be really, really good this upcoming season.”
Harrow is a rising junior and picked N.C. State over offers from Wake Forest and Auburn, among others. Rice, a 6-foot-4 shooting guard, has committed to Georgia Tech.
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Walton’s Glen Rice Jr. says he’ll play basketball at Georgia Tech
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Walton’s Glen Rice Jr. called Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt after his AAU game on Thursday and committed to the Yellow Jackets.
It ended one of the state’s most intense recruiting battles, with the son of the former NBA standout picking Tech over Miami and Florida State, among others.
“Georgia Tech was my top choice all along, there wasn’t really anybody else really close,” Rice said over the telephone from Orlando. “It’s close to home, great academics, and I really feel like I could be part of something great with the rest of the [incoming recruiting class].”
The 6-foot-4 Rice said Hewitt was excited to hear the news: “He wasn’t surprised because he knew how I felt about Georgia Tech from the beginning. He just congratulated me on the decision and welcomed me to the family.”
Walton coach Joe Goydish said he got a call from Tech assistant Charlton Young several minutes after Rice’s announcement.
“[Young] is real excited about Glen’s decision, and feels like he really fits in well with what they do,” Goydish said. “They feel like he’s unbelievably skilled player who also has one of the highest basketball IQs that they’ve ever recruited.”
His commitment completes a monster stretch of recruiting by Tech, which also got commitments from 6-3 point guard Mfon Udofia of Miller Grove, who is ranked as one of the nation’s top guards, and 6-8 power forward Kammeon Holsey of Hancock Central. Tech also has a commitment from Brian Oliver, a 6-6, 200-pound small forward from Delaware.
Tech is also in the hunt for South Atlanta forward Derrick Favors, who is rated as the nation’s No. 1 prospect by several recruiting services.
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