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Indiana State gets verbal from 2014 guard 6-3 Bryant McIntosh

Bryant McIntosh has reneged on his verbal to Indiana State and is reopening his recruitment..
This kid played a couple of High School All Star games and excelled - and suddenly got a few phone calls...
then the recruiting services boosted his ranking up a notch to a 3-Star...

(a little reminiscent of Bradley & Anthony Grundy...except this kid's still a junior
and has not signed a LOI yet so it's actually pretty easy to just "de-commit")
http://www.thecouriertimes.com/m/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=281828
 
tornado said:
Bryant McIntosh has reneged on his verbal to Indiana State and is reopening his recruitment..
This kid played a couple of High School All Star games and excelled - and suddenly got a few phone calls...
then the recruiting services boosted his ranking up a notch to a 3-Star...

(a little reminiscent of Bradley & Anthony Grundy...except this kid's still a junior
and has not signed a LOI yet so it's actually pretty easy to just "de-commit")
http://www.thecouriertimes.com/m/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=281828
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Yep............you nailed it! I saw it coming from watching his twitter account for the last couple of months. Talk about a player that was really "in" to one that is looking elsewhere ?
 
Interesting discussion on the Hoosiers premium board about this kid....

I guess it must be pretty well known over in Indiana AAU circles that this kid is capable of playing at a major school - and that schools like Butler**, Xavier, even Big Ten schools, etc have been pressuring the kid to reopen his recruitment..

There was also a fairly well reported incident involving McIntosh - where he punched and slapped by his own high school coach in the middle of a game, then the coach was heard to hurl insults ("you are pathetic and worthless") at McIntosh - who was a 14-year-old freshman at the time of the incident, and it was seen by many & caught on video tape..
http://www.wthr.com/story/15239792/...d-over-sideline-incident?clienttype=printable

BUT - as this article points out...
"Basketball is serious business in New Castle.
The team plays in the largest high school gym in the country
and the coach has the highest winning percentage
of all active Indiana coaches."
(btw - Steve Alford & new Butler head coach Brandon Miller are both New Castle grads and Brandon Miller played at SWMS (Missouri State) for then head coach Steve Alford)

so the school board met, decided to support the COACH and backed him & his false side of the story, and even went so far as to criticize the kid & his family for making an issue of this!!!

Subsequently - Bryant McIntosh left New Castle and transferred to Greensburg while obsessed New Castle basketball fans have hated on him ever since - even setting up phony web sites & twitter accounts that post endless juvenile attacks and lies about the kid. Amazing how small minded people can be.

**Butler was apparently a player in getting this kid but then at the end of this past school year, the Newcastle coach Steve Bennett quit as head coach at the school and his son
Steven Bennet, declared he was going to go to Butler and try to walk on...
With this new development - it is probably less likely that McIntosh would want to also go to Butler..
 
Adidas Invitational (Indianapolis)

12:58 p.m. ??“ Now watching Eric Gordon All-Stars Keeton play the Dallas Mustangs in a 17 super pool game. Greensburg??™s Bryant McIntosh recently opened up his recruitment from Indiana State and has picked up offers from Florida State and Auburn. Both schools are watching now, among others. West Virginia coach Bob Huggins is also taking in this game.

oh well.....................................:(
 
I read also that he is the prototypical player that Chris Collins would want and has been hearing from Northwestern -
 
Bryant McIntosh was one of the top performers this past weekend at the Adidas Invitational...

This morning's premium Rivals story starts right off raving about him...

"..no shortage of mid- and high-level Division I prospects
..In particular, it was 2014 guard Bryant McIntosh as well as 2015 guards
Hyron Edwards and Jalen Coleman who made the biggest splash.

Saturday's coverage called McIntosh the breakout player of the event,
something that no one would argue, as the 6-foot-2 Greensburg (Ind.) native
shot the lights out from all over the court, attacked the rim with his explosive
first step and generally showed the competitive fire that college coaches love
to see out a player who is trying to prove that he belongs at the high-major
level. Being recruited at that level is no longer an issue for McIntosh after the
Invitational, as the former Indiana State commit has earned a handful of
offers from top programs to go along with interest from another dozen or so
Midwestern high-majors."


In a nice, separate article on the Purdue Rivals site he reveals where he'd like to play next year..
"Back on the market now .. Bryant McIntosh is about to become a very popular man
McIntosh poured in 26 points, leading his Eric Gordon All-Stars team

Among those watching was Purdue coach Matt Painter, watching for the first time after his assistants had seen prior games at adidas.

..a Purdue offer would be a welcomed one, McIntosh said. "Absolutely," McIntosh said. "It's Purdue.
"Coach Painter is a great coach and I think he runs a great program there. .. It would be a good opportunity to play in the Big Ten."
http://purdue.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1524768
 
I am impressed that Lansing got to him first and had him verbally committed. I am not happy with the way things have since transpired but what can you do but move on to the next one. A verbal and sometimes even a signed LOI doesn't really mean much anymore. Its never over until they are enrolled and on campus.
 
exactly - MVC schools are seemingly well known for having coaches that spot the talent early on and land the kid - only to have the kid start hearing from other programs and "decommit" or leave - Grundy, Dentmon, Tucker, even Rayvonte Rice..
 
SycamoreFanatic said:
I am impressed that Lansing got to him first and had him verbally committed. I am not happy with the way things have since transpired but what can you do but move on to the next one. A verbal and sometimes even a signed LOI doesn't really mean much anymore. Its never over until they are enrolled and on campus.
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With the ability to leave a mid major program after playing a season seemingly getting easier and easier, it's never over for a mid major keeping players in their program after they blow up nationally..

Anyone remember a kid named Granger?
 
AZ BU Fan said:
Anyone remember a kid named Granger?
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More recently Drake got stung with Rayvonte Rice, but probably every MVC has lost a kid in the past due to this phenomenon of a kid who thinks he can do better. Illinois State lost Marcus Arnold, Victor Williams, and Nic Moore in the past.
 
Purdue is now heavily pursuing & recruiting Bryant McIntosh - but McIntosh made a visit to Northwestern -
and there is some rumbling that a recruiting violation took place while Bryant McIntosh was at Northwestern.
http://www.hammerandrails.com/2013/...hwestern-cheat-to-try-to-land-bryant-mcintosh

While there at Northwestern - McIntosh toured the campus with head coach Chris Collins and he also says
ex-DUKE great, John Scheyer happened to be there (in Evanston) helping to recruit him and toured with them...

NOTE what McIntosh says happened while he was on campus at Northwestern...

"The highlight of the trip, it seems, was meeting former Duke star Jon Scheyer,
who is now a "special assistant" for the Blue Devils..

"He's a guy I always watched at Duke," said McIntosh. "He and Coach Collins walked through some film of him at Duke.
Coach Collins think he can use me in a similar way. He thinks we have similar skills."

BUT - here's he problem --

Northwestern is recruiting McIntosh but Scheyer is ON STAFF at Duke as a "Special Assistant at Duke".
That's not one of the three permissible assistants on the bench but rather something closer to what Gene Keady is
at St. John's; a role where he doesn't have the full abilities as a coach.

One of the abilities Scheyer doesn't have at Duke is the ability to recruit off campus.

Purdue's compliance officer immediately went public, stating there was a VIOLATION!
"Only countable coaches may engage in off-campus contacts with prospects.."
"Contact with a prospect on another institution's campus is considered and off-campus contact."

Scheyer is not a countable coach, so he isn't allowed to engage in off-campus contact with a prospect, such as McIntosh.
 
Bryant McIntosh, who had committed to Indiana State at one time, today committed to Northwestern.
 
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