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Perry Ellis Update
Saturday, 27 June 2009 12:27 Micah Pearson Guest Basketball
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Who is thinking 2009, 2010 or even 2011? Lets talk 2012 recruiting...according to shiver.com Perry Ellis who is a 6'8 PF in the 2012 class has got his third offer. Rivals nor Scout has put out rankings but many see Ellis as a top five prospect in his class. He has already been offered by two top programs and now he has his third. Is it to soon to offer these kids? Clearly some programs don't think so... According to shiver.com Ellis was offered by his home state school Kansas, then Calipari offered him while he was at Memphis and now Calipari has offered him at Kentucky. Ellis was the only 2012 player to be invited to the Vince Carter Nike Skills Academy in Orlando where he proved he was worth being invited.
The question remains how young is to soon to offer? How young is to soon to take a commitment? Even if NCAA made a ruling a school can not offer until a certain age, all a coach has to do is say, "I can't offer you yet, but you will get an offer when we are allowed to give you one." So this turns into pretty much an offer...
If you are a coach and other schools are offering a young recruit, if you don't this could be the difference between them picking you or another school down the road because the other school was willing to show commitment towards him first. Coaches want the inside edge.
So is this a mistake by Kansas and well Calipari twice? No, because Perry Ellis has already proven his ability to compete with the best in the country. If coaches offer very young talent based on potential alone or they simply saw him perform well at one camp and tried to grab him before another school got in the mix.....that is a dangerous game to play that will come back to bite you. Perry Ellis is not being offered based upon just potential or performance at one camp, Self and Calipari know how to evaluate talent and they know Ellis is worth the early offer.