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Baseball13 says above: Well according to a poster on the UVA board his dad is doing some contracting business at Tony Bennett's house and Tony says Chukwu to UVA "is a done deal." Let's hope his dad is full of poop. Ouch. That report hurts. While second-hand hearsay (heard it from someone who heard it from someone else) isn't admissible in court, it's pretty solid stuff for basketball message boards. However, here's hoping that such from-Coach-to-father-to-son information has the same reliability as this little gem published a couple months ago during the Anton Gill recruitment days: Sources indicate that "Louisville transfer guard Anton Gill is close to committing to Georgetown, with a formal commitment possible as soon as tonight. Gill visited Georgetown over the weekend and word is that he impressed the coaching staff both on and off the court."

Syracuse was also mentioned awhile back as an option. Could be off here but I believe most of his visits were/are out of courtesy/wanting to tell coaches certain things in person and/or to see the countryside. I've been told that this is a 2 horse race and that we are one of the horses. And the other is?

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Here is a video link. Watch it--and wonder no more? Edit: Yes. The link is actually there--click on "Here is a video link." Don't know why the color indicator doesn't show up. Edit again: So, now it finally shows up. Scheesh!

Ha! Knew that would happen--couldn't get the imbedded link to show up on the post. Should have done some sort of edit thing to alert readers--hey, I could do that now. And thanks to KarlHess for figuring it out.

Here is a video link. Watch it--and wonder no more?

This is from a Virginia site dated yesterday: We'll tipoff this loaded edition with an update on Providence transfer Paschal Chukwu (see video above). The 7-2 center has recently visited both Kansas and Nebraska, and according to CBS' Jon Rothstein, Chukwu will check out the Cavaliers next. Chukwu will reportedly visit UVa on Friday, and then Michigan State next Monday. Rothstein also reports that the big man is interested in both Syracuse and UConn, but no visits are set in stone.

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Lee Barfknecht has an interesting article today in the Omaha World Herald. Here is the full quote for the title of this thread above: “This is a different breed of cat coming in,” [Miles] said. “It’s a different level of player than the previous years’ freshmen.” Also: “I recruited these young guys to get them on the floor,” [Miles] said. “They’ve got a high level of experience on the AAU circuit. These guys have played against some of the best competition night in and night out.” And: “I don’t think anybody liked the body language of our team the last year or year and a half,” [Miles] said. “We had such a huge winning streak at the end of 2014 that people didn’t realize it. But our problems were our problems the whole time." Other great stuff in the article--well worth the effort to read it all!

And who did they interview on "Drop the Mike" from KNTK? Oh, yeah!! It is a Rivals guy. Scheesh. Go figure. [but it isn't premium content]

It's not Rivals--it's "Drop the Mike" from KNTK. Here is a summary: --Announcer pronounces his last name as something like "choo-kwoo" --He visited Lincoln on June 1 & 2 --He is a very private peson, and no one seems to be able to get a reaction interview --The word from other sources is that he really enjoyed his visit here and developed a strong relationship with the coaching staff --He particularly hit it off well with Tim Miles --The problem is that his list of potential visits keeps getting longer, not shorter, and includes some of the bluest of blue blood schools, such as Kansas, Michigan St., Syracuse, UCONN --The Iona visit is probably a courtesy call because he is good friends with a player there --What keeps us in the mix with those big-time schools? Lincoln is his first visit, it went well, and we'll keep pushing and try to hold on in the end. Burno recruited him for Florida out of high school, so Burno is known and respected by him and by those around him--this is an excellent foot-in-the-door Also, he would probably start from day-1 when eligible and be "the guy" in the middle for three years

Interesting comparison, Auroran: Nebraska is the first visit for both Both have an assistant coach connection: White with Hunter; Chukwu with Burno Both have lots of interest from other schools and visit other schools Schools with visit arrangements: White--Maryland, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Florida St. (pretty good company) Chukwu--Kansas, Michigan St., Virginia, Syracuse, UCONN (Yikes!)

Isnt he allowed only 5 visits?Nebraska Kansas Virginia Michigan State Syracuse UCONN Iona(Unofficial) Yes - 5 official ones.Travel distance from Providence to Hartford (UCONN) is less than 100 miles--so, making an unofficial visit there shouldn't be difficult, assuming he's still in the Providence area.

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No recruit is less communicative than Paschal Chukwu. Neither Nebraska nor Kansas sources, for example, could get a pre- or post-visit response from him, other than something like a "Very well" text on how his Kansas visit went. Unless a source quotes directly from the recruit or his guardian, any report on Chukwu's thinking is speculation.

Here's the Iona connection: Chukwu's guardian, John Featheston, played basketball at Iona.

Here is a set of meaningless but ironic and slightly-humorous stats from Saturday's Metro Basketball Coaches Association Boy's All-Star Game, which the South All-Stars won 119-105: A Division-1 walkon (Elkhorn South's Johnny Trueblood--20 points) out scored a Division-1 scholarship and Rivals Four-Star / top-45 (Omaha North's Justin Patton--15 points), as did the no-Division-1 connection MVP of the All-Star game (Roncalli's Mohammed Elradi--20 points). The Division-1 walkon and the MVP both played on the winning South team. The Rivals Four-Star / top-45 played on the losing North team. Go figure.

A Michigan State board at least has a thread on Chukwu--although it's a short one without much activity: http://www.scout.com/college/michigan-state/forums/2655-spartan-basketball/13874227-paschal-chukwu-7-ft-2-in-226-lb-transfer. A Michigan board, on the other hand, has no Chukwu thread. Moreover, Michigan has two 6'10" recruits and one 6'9" recruit committed for the next two years, and Wolverine posters are complaining that these commits are Max Bielfeldt clones. There has to be some humor in all this somewhere.

Someone confirmed it.

The Kansas Phog message board on basketball (a freebie) has a 9 page string on Chukwu. Here is a post from 2:52 o'clock this afternoon showing how weird all this recruiting stuff gets: "Re: Paschal Chukwu Leaving Providence 2:52 PM Is there actual confirmation that he is actually on campus? This seems like a whole bunch of useless speculation until that is confirmed." No one has responded to that post as of yet (3:35 p.m.). Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Here is a Kansas fans' perspective on the Chukwu vs. Coleby comparison: http://www.scout.com/college/kansas/forums/2481-hoops-talk/13879112-ole-miss-transfer-dwight-coleby-visiting-this-weekend Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Coleby has two years of eligibility left. Chukwu has three.

It's definitely NOT from any inside information. Could be a gut rumbling. Possibly a brain fart. Maybe just early Alzheimers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://twitter.com/robinwashut/status/604066881318739968 So . . . I'm calling it: Chukwu picks the Huskers as a scholarship player, and Bielfeldt picks the Huskers as a walk-on. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Have you ever seen the play, "I'm not Rappaport" where two old guy are talking and one keeps calling the other " Rappaport" and telling him how much he has changed, while the other keeps saying "I'm not Rappaport"? It's sort of like that. In this thread we keep talking about imminent word from Dickerson that he is on his way here while Burno denies that Dickerson is a target and Dickerson keeps mentioning other teams--but never Nebraska. We kept this up until very recently--just like Rappaport. What didn't make sense is that Nebrasketball seems to be a perfect fit for Dickerson with Burno on board and Dickerson de-committing and Burno apparently being his primary contact and Nebraska needing bigs and all. Turns out, it seems . . . Chukwu is the target all along. Not Dickerson. And Burno was being genuine all along (not merely doing coach speak) in denying that Dickerson is a target.