Coaching Carousel Recruiting Side Effects!

Who said the 2006-2007 recruiting was over? Look at some of the top players that may be in play after another crazy round of the coaching carousel!!!! There's more of them, I am only including some of the most touted ones.

Updated 4/6 with Texas A&M/Kentucky

Updated 4/5 with West Virginia, Kansas State, Butler, LaTech

Updated: 3/30 with the Arkansas and Iowa coaching changes.

Updated: 3/22 with the Kentucky coaching change. Added South Florida recruits

This is a work in progress story... In many cases the student athletes decide to go elsewhere if the coach they signed up with is no longer there...

I will get deeper into this later on. For now, here are some of the top recruits who are affected by the coaching carousel. Typically universities want to give the next coach a shot at re-recruiting the signed recruits, before allowing them to go elsewhere if they don't want to stay... It doesn't mean all of the players will want to transfer, but a lot of them do in such cases. That's how Arizona got Andre Iguodala, Texas got Damion James, Villanova got Scottie Reynolds, UAB got Mayfield, etc, etc, etc...

Michael Beasley (Kansas State), 2007

Dominique Sutton (Kansas State), 2007

DeAndre Jordan, big seven footer, (Texas A&M), 2007

Alex Legion (Michigan), 2007

AJ Stewart (Kentucky), 2007

Matt Gatens (Iowa), 2008

Beas Hamga (Iowa), 2008, has already changed his mind.

Mike Williams, a big 7-footer,(Kentucky), 2007

Jamie Vanderbeken (sounds like he should be on Dawson's Creek), Iowa, 2008-JC, former Iowa commit, now at JuCo, recommited to Steve Alford's Iowa. Alford is now gone. Will he follow Alford to New Mexico?

Corperryale Harris (Michigan), 2007

Dairese Gray (Iowa), 2007

Jarryd Cole (Iowa), 2007

Jake Kelly (Iowa), 2007

Draymond Green (Kentucky), 2008, already decomitted (verbal)

John Flowers (West Virginia), 2007

Matt Howard (Butler), 2007

Nathan Walkup (Texas A&M), 2007

Derrek Lewis (Texas A&M), 2007

BJ Homes (Texas A&M), 2007

Al Nolen (Minnesota), 2007

Nate Rakestraw (Arkansas), 2007

Andrew Brommer (Minnesota), 2008

Jesse Woodward (Colorado State), 2007

Aaron Holmes, (South Florida), 2007

Adam Wadell, (Wyoming), 2007

Scott Thompson, (Santa Clara), 2007

Bobby Shannon (Marshall), 2007

Jacob Pullen, Fred Brown, Tyree Evans (JC), all three to Kansas State, 2007


Effect on high profile UNCOMMITTED players

Patrick Patterson was looking into Kentucky partially because he wanted to play for Tubby Smith... Huggins going to his home state of West Virginia may also be factor...


For more details on the Coaching Carousel itself check this post at NCAA Hoops Today