From: jb118@prism.gatech.EDU (Jeffrey N. Burch)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: Re: Recruiting News Here and There
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:06:00 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute -- EOL

In article <BvGonB.GH2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jdt29225@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jazzy J ) writes:
>jb118@prism.gatech.EDU (Jeffrey N. Burch) writes:
>>Charles (Yes, He is Ed's brother) O'Bannon, 6'6" from Lakewood, Ca.
>>May go to UCLA if his brother recommends it, won't if he doesn't.
>
>	I'd be surprised if Charles went to UCLA.  After all, his older
>	brother is there -- and even though he has been coming back from
>	his ACL injury slowly -- Charles would probably still play in
>	Ed's shadow for 2 seasons.  This reminds me of the Doug/Steve

From what I've read, it seems that the O'Bannon family is "close", and
so many recruiting analysts have conjectured that where Ed goes, 
Charles will go.  But I've heard it rumored that Ed may no longer be
all that crazy about UCLA, for a variety of reasons, and so if he
tells his brother to think about going to other places, he very well
might.    

I've asked some UCLA people about whether Charles is likely to go
their, and they all tell me the same thing - they don't know.

>	Edwards situation.  Steve Edwards ended up signing w/ Miami (? or
>	was it Florida?) because he didn't want to play in his brother's
>	shadow at Florida St.  Come to think of it -- I haven't seen
>	many brother combinations on the same team at the same time.
>	Some I can recall are Wayman/William Tisdale, Horace/Harvey Grant,
>	Carl/Charles Thomas, Lance/David Miller.  Any others?

Here at Tech we have Jon Barry's brother Drew, although from what I can
tell he's not as good as Jon (almost the same size, though - both are
listed as 180 lb, with Jon an inch taller than his 6'4" brother.

>	What's the scoop on the recruitment of Darnell Burton out of
>	Dunbar HS in Lexington?  I would think that UK should put him
>	near the top of the list in terms of recruiting.  He's the best
>	player to come out of Lexington in a long time -- probably since
>	the likes of Prince Stewart...

Pitino and company were very high on Burton, but once they got a solid
verbal commitment from Jeff Sheppard, they toned down their efforts for
Darnell by a couple of orders of magnitude.  Pitino said something 
about not wanting to "stockpile" players at any position, and yet UK
has had enough injuries and graduations that you'd think he wouldn't
mind getting someone of Burton's obvious quality.  

Considering the UK weakness at center, I'd have thought he'd have 
"stockpiled" as many good players there as he could get his hands on.
Everyone keeps saying that McCarty and Dent are fine players, but Dent
is new and McCarty won't play until next year, so I'd still like to see
the Wildcats land a world-class center.

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