From: orourke@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Michael O'Rourke)
Subject: Recruiting News (with emphasis on Kansas)
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 21:26:18 GMT


Some recruiting notes, with emphasis on the Jayhawks' recruiting
targets:

(1) JACQUE VAUGHN, 6'0" pg, Pasadena, CA: Kansas apparently has the
	inside track for Vaughn, although he still lists Indiana,
	Michigan, Kentucky, and UNLV.

(2) BOBBY CRAWFORD, 6'2" pg, Houston, TX: His list includes Kansas,
	Vanderbilt, UCLA, Michigan, and Stanford (!).  (What, no SWC
	teams?)

(3) AVONDRE JONES, 6'11" c, Lakewood, CA: He is leaning toward UCLA
	and USC over Kansas, Arizona State, UNLV, Georgetown, and Ohio
	State.

(4) NICK PROUD, 6'11" c, Sandy, UT: He lists Kansas, BYU, and Oregon,
	although BYU is thought to have the inside track because he is
	a Mormon.

(5) RASHEED WALLACE, 6'10" c, Philadelphia, PA: He lists Kansas,
	Villanova, Temple, Georgetown, UNC, Kentucky, Ohio State,
	UMass, and Howard, although he apparently wants to stay on the
	East coast.

(6) JERRY STACKHOUSE, 6'6" f, Oak Hill Academy, VA: He is still
	considering KU, but he is apparently leaning toward NC State
	and Florida State.

(7) JOHN THOMAS, 6'10" c, Minneapolis, MN: As was reported in this
	group last week, he chose Minnesota over Kansas, Seton Hall,
	Notre Dame, and Nebraska.


				--- from Bob Gibbons


KANSAS NOTES:

Kansas has four scholarships to offer, and they really need to sign a
point guard to replace Adonis Jordan, a shooting guard to replace Rex
Walters, and a center to replace Eric Pauley.  Since KU lost Chris
Davis to Prop 48 and Pensacola JUCO, they would also like to sign a
forward.  

Point Guard:  They desparately need to sign someone at this position.
	They will have Calvin Rayford returning as a junior, and he's
	a McDonald's All-American and reportedly one of the quickest
	players out of high school in several years; however, he is
	also only 5'7".  Rayford played on the KU Intramural Trophy
	League championship team (G.U.T.T.S. -- "Give us the trophy,
	suckers") with Sean Pearson, and while he was quick at both
	ends, he reportedly had difficulty getting his shot off and he
	was given to making bad decisions.  A year with Roy Williams
	will undoubtedly help, but it would be nice to have some
	supremely talented recruit in next year to challenge him.
	Julian Winfield, the ex-Billiken, ex-soon-to-be-Jayhawk,
	current-Tiger, had an influence on recruiting at this
	position, since Williams and his staff did not go hard after a
	point guard this summer because they thought they would have
	Winfield.

Shooting Guard: No shooting guards listed above, but KU has been in on
	Damon Flint, Chris Kingsbury, and Martin Lewis (Liberal, KS)
	in the past.  (Lewis really wants to go to Kansas, but he may
	have to walk on.)  They are probably not too worried about
	this position, since they have Greg Gurley and Sean Pearson
	for three more years. Pearson should be an All-Big Eight
	performer.  Still, it would be nice to bring in some more
	depth.

Forward: They are deep and very talented here, with Richard Scott
	(Jr.), Ben Davis (So.), Darren Hancock (Jr.), Pat Richey
	(Jr.), and Steve Woodberry (Jr.).  Still, they are looking for
	people at both forward spots.  In addition to Stackhouse, they
	have been looking at Donnell Williams (6'7"? sf), Jon
	Garavaglia (pf from Mich. --I haven't heard about this guy in
	a while), Scot Pollard (6'9" pf/c from Washington), and B.J.
	Kennedy (6'7" pf from Wichita, KS), among others.

Center: I think this has to be the second highest recruiting priority.
	They will have Greg Ostertag coming back, and while Ostertag
	has a chance to be a very good college center, it is unclear if
	he can play an entire game without collapsing.  Last season he
	was only good for 4 or 5 minutes at a time because of
	conditioning problems.  If they don't get one of the high
	school recruits, I wouldn't be surprised to see Williams sign
	a JUCO center in the spring.

Any additional information or corrections would be appreciated.


Rock Chalk
orourke@csli.stanford.edu


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