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2013 Commitment Stefan Zecevic

Gary the Gargoyle said:
I think the Zecvic situation is slightly different in that he has spent a year in the U.S. and has played basketball here.
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There have been a few pretty good players from Europe that have played college ball. As T has said not many and there usually was some special circumstance. One player that was pretty good player from Lithuania and a former Maryland guard, Sarunas Jasikevicius. He was a shooter and still plays for Lithuania's national team. As I said I'll wait until he arrives on campus and suits up before I comment. There has only been one recruit the last few years that I was 100% jazzed about that committed but did not make it to the campus.
 
Shooter

Shooter

Just talked to someone at the gym and they stated he was a flat out shooter. Had great vision and very impressive. The big kid not so much
 
You have to remember that 6'10 HS kids progress much slower than guards. Hard to say if the kid will pan out, but I'm sure he must have something that is compelling to college coaches.

I heard the same about Zecevic...really shoots it, great court vision. Glad he committed!
 
I am already a big fan of the kid if he committed and plan to follow him every game when he's playing at Lee Academy

http://www.leeacademy.org/prep_roster.html

http://www.leeacademy.org/prep_sked.html ( this year's schedule not up yet)

several of Zecevic's Lee Academy teammates are ranked at the very top of the state's rankings...
http://www.newenglandrecruitingreport.com/rankings/maine.php

Two of them are ranked in the Top 20 of the entire New England area
http://www.newenglandrecruitingreport.com/rankings/new_england.php
 
Just for reference - here is a pretty thorough list of Euro kids who have signed with colleges the past few years - the list even includes Michael Ochereobia...

2011- http://www.europeanprospects.com/in.../ncaa-recruiting-european-players-class-2011/
2010- http://www.europeanprospects.com/in.../ncaa-recruiting-european-players-class-2010/
2009- http://www.europeanprospects.com/euro-ncaa-report/

..a few of the names are recognizable...the Canarias Basketball Academy where Michael Ochereobia came from has now sent over 30 kids to DI and DII colleges, but Ochereobia is the only name most fans would recognize...
 
btw - I note that this thread about Bradley's newest commit has well over 3000 views and dozens of responses just in a couple days......
- plus there's actually another thread going over on the Recruiting board that increases those numbers...
This is clearly a topic of intense interest and the activity dwarfs anything just about anywhere on any non-BCS team's message board...
Kudos to BU's great fans
 
we have more in antoher thread as well on this topic
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=267357#267357

but I read some message boards about this issue...and here's where it differs from what we see in most PRIVATE schools in regards to their recruiting....

-first many private schools that recruit players to fill their basketball roster - schools like Brewster, Oak Hill, La Lumiere, Brehm Prep....
they know they don't follow the same rules as the other local schools, so they don't even try to play within the state association against the other schools...

-but Lee is a member of the Maine state association (their equivalent of IHSA) but they aren't a TRUE private school in one sense...
like many smaller "private" schools in the northeast - if they serve an area that doesn't have a lot of public schools, then the STATE actually pays Lee to take some of the kids who are public school students but who have nowhere else to go without traveling long distances.
The kids don't HAVE TO go to LEE but are given that option with the state picking up the tab.

-but they also have dorms and board certain kids, like Zecevic, and if they give those kids discounted charges for their boarding & meals just because they are athletes, then it is still against the rules.

"Private and some public schools are expected to recruit students,
but they are not expected to provide inducements for athletes to attend their schools.”

...Lee has contracts with local school boards to educate students from Lee, Springfield, Webster and Winn.
The school also serves students from Greenbush, Kingman, Topsfield, Vanceboro and the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine. Tuition, room and board is approximately $26,000 a year for seven-day boarding students."
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/local-sports/2012/12/07/mpa-places-lee-academy-probation/1291084
 
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