SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: Starting Young on the Recruiting Trail
This entry was posted on 11/4/2007 10:23 AM and is filed under Boys Basketball News, Boys Youth Basketball.
Recruitment of our Metro class of 2011 players is already under way.
Below is an article reprinted from the Salt Lake Tribune on their blog
Utes Basketball:
by Michael C. Lewis
Utes Basketball: Starting Young on the Recruiting Trail
It was yet another reminder of how far in advance -- years, really -- the college basketball recruiting process really begins.
A high school freshman visiting the Utes.
Box Elder's Brant Mecham and his father stopped by practice the other day, evidently part of a series of unofficial visits to several schools to get a sense of the programs and how they do things. Coach Jim Boylen spoke with Mecham and introduced the 6-foot-5 guard to the current Utes after the workout, but he's not allowed to comment on potential recruits.
In any case, Mecham is only entering his freshman season, but already he has been tabbed as one of the state's top prospects in the 2011 recruiting class, along with shooting guard Corbin Miller of Brighton. Both were rated among the top freshmen at the Adidas Phenom 150 summer camp in San Diego, with Miller also rated 34th on Hoop Scoop's recent list of the top 500 freshmen in the country.
It will be interesting to see how such young players develop, and whether the Utes keep up a recruitment of Mecham as the years go by.
