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Kentucky Coach Billy Gillispie respects that someone might object to offering an eighth-grader a scholarship, but he vowed to continue recruiting any prospect that might help UK win.
Although the chancellor of the University of Maryland system, Brit Kirwan, was quoted in USA Today last week as calling the recruitment of eighth-grade players "appalling," Gillispie suggested school presidents don't understand the changing nature of recruiting.
"If you're in recruiting, it's very, very competitive," Gillispie said at a news conference on Saturday. "You start earlier and earlier all the time because you're seeing guys earlier.
"It's a little bit different for us, maybe, than for university presidents."
When asked at a news conference on Saturday if he'd recruit, say, a 12-year-old, Gillispie said, "I'd never say never.



http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/401527.html

Wow man he is a worker and then coaches wonder why he can get the top kids to play for him.