What Were You Doing In 8th Grade?

[Green Crazy]

Youngest commit/offer ever?

Billy likes them young.

[CMJ]

Bobby Knight started recuiting a kid in 8th grade about 20 years ago at Indiana. I'm trying to remember the name...but he was a decent enough player in Hooisier country. Still utterly ridiculous.

[GreenMachine]

sneaking Playboys out of my dads closet.

[Green Mean]

I was starting to realize that puberty can be a good thing and serve me well

[class84]

Bobby Knight started recuiting a kid in 8th grade about 20 years ago at Indiana. I'm trying to remember the name...but he was a decent enough player in Hooisier country. Still utterly ridiculous.

Damom Bailey

[CMJ]

Damon Bailey

Yeah, Adler reminded me of his name in a PM. He was a really good college player, but still - nobody should be recruited that early.

[Eagle1855]

trying to make it to second base.

[untbowler]

sneaking Playboys out of my dads closet.

Playboys??? I was looking for the video stash.

[drex]

This situation brings back memories. I wanted to schedule a double header at the Super Pit with Denton High vs. some other high school and then the regular North Texas men's game. I had my wrists slapped for trying to do it since the NCAA considered it recruiting. I asked how young a kid could play at the Super Pit before the regular game and not be penalized by the NCAA...I think the answer was grade school. Unbelievable.

[KRAM1]

Just because I enjoy the college game over the pro games does not mean that I can't recognize pure stupidity for what it is...look up stupid in the dictionary and you get this example. I predict this kid will never set foot on the court in a Kentucky uniform if he ever sees the court as a college player...man, this is pure folly...

[KRAM1]

By the way drex, when our son was a UNT ball Boy he had to stop after the 7th grade as if he were allowed to do it in the 8th grade it would be considered a recruiting violation...anyway, that's the story we got, so maybe they can play at the pit through 7th grade. Who knows...

And, what was i doing in 8th grade...can't remember, but i do know I was about 12 years old before I figured out that all women did not fold three times and have staples in the navals! Yes, i found my dad's Playboy's early in life!

[meangreenacct]

Just because I enjoy the college game over the pro games does not mean that I can't recognize pure stupidity for what it is...look up stupid in the dictionary and you get this example. I predict this kid will never set foot on the court in a Kentucky uniform if he ever sees the court as a college player...man, this is pure folly...

I gaurantee you the kid will see the court as a college player. Even at 8th grade one can tell when a player has the skill set to succeed, and I believe he demonstrated that in the various camps he has attended. Now as to commitments and handing out sholarships at that age, that is ridiculous. Coach G probably won't even be at Kentucky in five years and team needs can change drastically from year to year. I think the Junior year is really the earliest this process should begin.

[KRAM1]

Skill seems to be there for the kid in the 8th grade, but injuries happen, interests change, etc., etc. I have seen too many "great" 7th/8th graders turn into average, at best, HS seniors. This kid may well be different, but 8th grade? Give me a break. I predict the kid will not wear Kentucky Blue by the time his freshman year in college comes around. Hey, isn't there some 7 ft. 8th grade kid in Mongolia that JJ can offer a scholarship to today? Maybe he can give him the one we lost...surely UNT will have it back by then!

[DeepGreen]

The summer before I started 8th grade, my dad recruited me to cut the grass every Saturday at $2.00 a cut, thus ending my amature status.

[GreenBat]

The summer before I started 8th grade, my dad recruited me to cut the grass every Saturday at $2.00 a cut, thus ending my amature status.

You got 2 bucks. I got I foot in my ass if I didn't volunteer to do it.

[Cowtown]

In 8th grade I had some sweet, tight cordouroy OP shorts that would have clearly revealed the foot in my ass had I had one inserted.

You got 2 bucks. I got I foot in my ass if I didn't volunteer to do it.

[UNTLifer]

What about 9th grade?

Billy Clyde Offers a 9th Grader