Re: Rashad Vaughn
This reminds me of HB so much. For months no one was thinking ISU had much of a chance. Then all the sudden the last few weeks you started hearing whispers. Look, he's wearing ISU gear! Then his invitations went out. Gary Thompson is invited! That's it, he's a Clone! Then on national TV our hearts get ripped out and stomped on. I expect something similar on Friday.
I was thinking the same thing...
It seems leading up to this point he was really looking at Stanford and Gonzaga, Duke entered late. The education aspect is really important to his family, I think his brother is playing for Harvard right now. Upto this point I assumed he would go to Stanford for the acedemics. Lately though he has been almost weekly attending scrimages and exhibitions of the Gophers and seen at their facilities visiting with the staff almost weekly. Now he lives blocks from campus so this isn't hard for him but I would definetly give the Gopher a good chance, maybe 50/50 or more. Duke is the wild card, they are late to the game but, play his style and have the acedemics and Coach K. Plus he was flattered by the Blue Devil offer when it came.
I am not worried about Travis commiting to the U of M affecting Vaughn that much, RV wants results year one and I doubt that Reid can help much as a frosh. Plus with us getting McKay and having Niang, Vaughn should know the front court is talented and set.
I'd be more worried about Jarvis Johnson's recruitment getting influenced the year after.
