'11 IN PF Justin Gant (11/12/2010, LOI)

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Current offers:
Indiana State
Bradley
Southern Illinois
Evansville
Iowa

Other strong suitors:
Miami Ohio
U of Ohio
Michigan
Xavier
Minnesota

The sky is the limit for Justin.

Justin will make the right decision. His family is very educated on the recruiting process and they know what they want. I'm not going to gaurantee that he will end up at ISU, but I will gaurantee that they are very open minded right now.....as they sould be.
 

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SydCamore said:
Justin will make the right decision. His family is very educated on the recruiting process and they know what they want. I'm not going to gaurantee that he will end up at ISU, but I will gaurantee that they are very open minded right now.....as they sould be.
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I am going to expand on that and go out on a sturdy limb and suggest that Gant will indeed be a Sycamore. At least I am cautiously optimistic (a word we use a lot in healthcare) that he will stay here at home... Given that the Sycamores have winning season (with good crowds).
 
Interesting that he has some high major suitors but no offers from any of them?
 

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It's official.
Miami of Ohio has offered Gant a scholarship
and
University of St. Louis is going to after speaking at length with Gant's father.

I know Miami of Ohio has a strong business school and a beautiful campus and is only 3-3.5 hours from Terre Haute.

He would follow another Terre Haute North great Brian Reed if he would go to Miami (OH).
 
ISU has a very good School Of Business also. CHECK IT OUT.

In 1972 when I graduated with a marketing degree it was ranked in the top 10% of the nation.
 
I've watched a lot of the North games, and I think Gant may be their best player besides Anderson. He has a really jump shot, and he can really rebound the ball. He shows great athleticism and he looks like he could be playing along side Odum in a couple more years. But he has a tough decision to make. He's only a junior, has anybody looked at Scotty West from West Vigo? He has a good 3-point shot, and he can really give us some assists, and he can rebound the ball for a 5'10" kid. He'll only be a junior this year too.
 

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I highly doubt they are going to add a 5"10 kid that can simply "shoot" the ball to a division one program - I mean 5"10 and can shoot? Those kids are a dime a dozen out their. I mean you can pick any one of 1,000 kids in the state of Indiana that fits that mold.

I mean let's take Jarvis from THS for example - he had offers from both Indiana State and Butler. Well last season after the Pizza Hut Classic the kid started to struggle a little bit, people started to defend him and Odum got hurt toward the end of the season and his numbers fell off the face of the earth. Next thing you know Butler pulled their offer and well a kid named Jake Kelly filled a would be/could be scholie for Jarvis. Now he is getting no looks and I would have to say that Jarvis is prolly more athletic and a better shooter than West from West.
 
If Jarvis is so good, then why isn't he getting recruited anywhere? I would rather have him than West, but he had a back problem at the end of the year that nobody seems to be taking into characteristic. I think he would've ended the season, if he didn't get that back injury.
 
I don't think I used the words "so good" in any way shape or form. I simply said that he is a better shooter than the West kid and Jarvis can't even get any D1 looks at this point. Also for what it's worth he did finish the season last season, he just didn't play very well. Was that because of his back? Maybe, but he's pretty young to be having back problems seems like a red flag to me.

I think it's safe to say that neither West or Jarvis will play for the Sycamores...
 
Chief_Quabachi said:
ISU has a very good School Of Business also. CHECK IT OUT.

In 1972 when I graduated with a marketing degree it was ranked in the top 10% of the nation.
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He's going to. I believe Gant is going to head up to ISU this upcoming week for an unofficial visit to take a look around.
 

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It is very unlikely that Jarvis was ever actually offered by Butler. Butler offers very few. For example, through the '12 class, there are either 4 (or 5) total outstanding ('11 Trice, '11 Zeller, '11 Fant, '12 Ferrell, and possibly '12 Burgett)

It is pretty rare to even see two at the same position unless there is some unusual circumstance.
 
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Well the "indiviudal" I talked to said that he had offers from Indiana State and Butler... Both of which were pulled... Maybe you are right, who really knows other than Jarvis. But I am pretty sure he had offers from both.
 
Jarvis may or may not have a bad back, but his problem at the end of last year, 5 games left in the season, was that he tore a ligament in his ankle. Then he tried to come back after a week or so, scored like 14 points in the first 10 minutes of the game against Indy North Central(and looked like the best player on the court) but reinjured his ankle about half way through the second quarter and didn't have the speed or lift and his numbers went down. From the beginning of the season through the end of the Pizza Hut Classic, he was money. Then he got hurt bad for a shooter.

He will have his chance to earn a D-1 scholarship this year as he will be the man at TH South. Jarvis is athletic enough for D-1 basketball, his shot is certainly D-1 quality, and his work ethic is legendary at TH South. He rebounds the basketball good and is very good at coming from the weakside and blocking a shot. Don't be surprised if this kid ends up at a pretty good mid-major school or top notch JC after this season.
 
I would love for Jarvis to go the JC route, play for a year or two and transfer to State. This kid is a "lights out" shooter and plays the game well. He is a decent defender and excellent rebounded for his size. This kid can really fly, and must have a vertical in the 36"-38" range. The shooting display he put on in a couple games in the pizza hut classic last year was incredible. The elevation he gets on his shot makes it tough for anyone to alter it. I agree with true blue, this will be his year to show what he can do. I think to much emphasis is being put on his lack of production off the dribble. The last couple years he's had an excellent point guard to dish him the ball in excellent shooting position so he hasn't ever really needed to be the one to create with the ball in his hands. We'll really get to see his full ability, or lack there of, this season. Even if he isn't all that great creating with the ball in his hands, in college you play with a point guard who is capable of finding the open shooter, which Jarvis is good at doing, getting open.
 
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