This guy is wide open. Last week he had a top 5 of Baylor, Colorado St., Tulsa, Arkansas, and TCU and this week things have already changed. Find out where the Bears stand and what he plans to do over the summer and much much more.

Eric Childs Update

Chad is being looked at by the bears as a safety or outside linebacker prospect. He has played all over the field and while he doesn't have any offers he has some good things to say about the schools that he is looking at.

Chad Kugler

Rashad Woods[/URL] is a 6'7, 215 lb. shooting guard out of Heritage Christian Academy in Cleveland, Texas.

Woods had previously committed to Baylor back in September '03, but then decommitted a couple of months thereafter. According to Rivals, his current top 4 list is Baylor Oklahoma, Texas, and Connecticut(no particular order).

Rivals does not currently have him ranked on any of their national lists, but many people expect him to make the top 75 national list by the time the post summer rankings come out.

Texas Roundball has woods listed as the 14th best player in the state for the class of 2005(link[/URL])

click here for the February 20th, 2004 update on Woods(ultimate ticket)[/URL]

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Kevin Rogers[/URL] is a 6'8, 220 pound forward prospect out of South Oak Cliff in Dallas.

He is currently interested in Arizona, Texas, Kansas, North Carolina, Connecticut, Georgia Tech, Illinois, and Baylor among others, according to a direct quote from him in the May 7th rivals update(ultimate ticket)[/URL]

Rivals rankings:

36th - 5-13-04

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Way early for this kid but Baylor is in his head.

Article

I recently talked to both Shon Brown and Roy Miller.

Shon said that Baylor is still his favorite.

Roy said that he doesn't have any favorites, but did say that Baylor and Texas Tech will be in his top 5 (he doesn't know who the other 3 will be yet), and that he will make a decision when he feels right, but doesn't know when that will be.

Just thought you guys might like to hear a few updates on two of Baylor's top prospects.

Jovan Adams[/URL] is a 6'1, 180 lb. combo guard out of Gulf Shores Academy in Houston. Rivals lists him with offers from Florida, Baylor, Connecticut, Houston and Illinois. He says that he is currently leaning towards Florida.

This year he averaged 32 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds per game.

click here to access the Feb 23rd update on Adams(ultimate ticket)[/URL]

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Terrell Haris[/URL] is a 6'5, 175 pound shooting guard prospect out of South Garland High School near Dallas.

click here to access the February 17th update on Harris(ultimate ticket)[/URL]

Rivals rankings:

43rd -5/13/2004
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He has made it clear that he wants Big 12. He may grade at better at the next level on the OL, depending on the scheme but has shown good hands.

Glimp Article

Prepstars.com is reporting that Baylor has recently started recruiting Tony Jones, a 6'7 wing player out of Hill College.

Interestingly enough, Jones did not receive much D1 interest coming out of high school, so he enrolled at a D2 school, then transferred to Hill. Even though he has not played any games for them yet, he is already receiving interest from Creighton, Baylor, TCU and Wichita State.

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Henry Dugat

>Henry Dugat[/URL] is a 6'0, 175 lb. point guard prospect from Dayton Texas. The Baylor coaches have been seen watching him play, and there is some interest there.

I don't have a great deal of information on this player, but I can tell you that his stock has skyrocketed within the last year. I have been keeping up with his stats a bit this season, and it seems that he is averaging somewhere around 25+ points per game.

He went from being somewhat of an unknown last year to now being one of the higher regarded players in the entire state. For a point of reference, before this current season began Texas Roundball.com had him slotted as the #14 player in the state, but after their revised rankings came out recently, he shot up all the way to #3, ahead of such highly regarded prospects as Calvin Miles, Fendi Onobun, Rashad Woods and A.J. Abrams.

I cannot personally vouch for this, but I heard one report which described him as "T.J. Ford with a jump shot."

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Brian has good size, speed, and playmaking ability, but more importantly he has an interest in Baylor.

Brian Christian

Rivals.com is reporting that Baylor is now recruiting Ekpe Udoh[/URL], a 6'8 200 pound sophomore combo forward out of Santa Fe High School in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Udoh is also receiving interest from OU, Oklahoma State, and UNC-Wilmington.

link - March 10th udpate(ultimate ticket)[/URL]

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The 192 lb. power forward Is still being recruited by Baylor.

As reported on this board a while back, he had committed to Stephen F. Austin, but then broke his commitment to them. Previously, he had received interest from SMU, OU, Penn State, Texas Tech, and a few others.

Personally, I don't really know what to make of this guy. Some of the "recruiting gurus" had raved about him being one of the better up and coming players, even a top 100 national guy, but then others have graded him very lowly. Since I've never seen him play, I can't really say one way or the other. I do know that over the years he has piled up a fair number of all district/all state honors at Pittsburg.

Last year I think he averaged 17 points and 8 rebounds a game while playing in a 3A district. Early on this season, he is averaging 32 a game.

I'm going to keep an eye on this one.

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Englebert Cherrington[/URL] is a 6'7 240 pound JUCO sophomore who originally hails from Belize, but now plays for Midland College.

He has been receiving some love from the Baylor coaches, but the latest rumor on the street is that he might be going to UH, because his current JUCO coach there(Shannon Hays) is expected to take a job on Tom Penders's new staff.

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Jesus Verdejo

Just a quick recap on this player who is being recruited by Baylor for this year.

Jesus Verdejo[/URL] is a 6'5, 190 lb. three star wing player who is reported to have tremendous leaping ability, and who has also displayed great athleticism on defense and in transition. Word is he has nice range on his jumper, and can knock down the three pointer.

Last year Jesus signed a letter of intent with Temple University after he graduated from high school, but TU refused to permit him to enroll over an academic objection. From that point, he chose to spend a year prepping at the Winchendon School in Massachussetts, and since that time has obtained the necessary credentials to enroll in a div 1 school as a full qualifier.

Originally, Verdejo hails from Puerto Rico, and he played for his national team there in the 2003 world games.

As a senior at Miami Christian in 2003, Jesus was named first team all Dade county and also first team all state(class 1A), as he averaged 23.4 points and 3.5 assists per game. During the summer he participated in summer league AAU ball, as he played for the Miami Tropics in south Florida.

Since the time he originally began his the recruiting process, he has drawn interest at one time or another from Louisville, Marquette, Memphis, South Florida, Temple, Florida State, South Alabama, Connecticut, Baylor and Miami.

Here are some links and notes on him of interest

LINK - Rivals official bio on Verdejo[/URL]

LINK - Providence Journal blurb on JV[/URL]

Power basketall ranked Verdejo 2nd best Florida senior of 2003[/URL]

LINK - hoopscoop names Verdejo 26th best 5th year player[/URL]

More information as it becomes available. . . . . . .

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Yusef Baker[/URL] is a 6'8, 220 pound power forward from the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, ID.

Hoopmasters.com is reporting that Baylor has showed some interest in this player. HOWEVER, Rivals.com just reported a few days ago that he recently announced a top 3 of Tulsa, Alabama, and Nebraska.

Coming out of high school in Florida, Baker was considered a top 50 national player by some, and was named the Class 6A Gatorade high school player of the year. He originally played at the University of Southern Florida as a freshman, then transferred to CSI to play this past season.

An assistant on the CSI staff described Baker this way:

"a great rebounder and shot-blocker. He’s very athletic, plays good defense and loves to dunk. His offensive game is not quite at the level of his defensive game at this point, but he plays well within our system. He can shoot the ball out to 15 feet and is around a 50-percent shooter at that range. However, he gets most of his buckets close in and after offensive rebounds.”

There are several good articles on his Rivals profile page, for those of you with ultimate ticket memberships who are interested in seeing them.

TC

Jerel McNeal[/URL] is a junior scoring guard out of Chicago who is now being recruited by Baylor.

He has a lot of interest from high major programs, including Arizona, Kentucky, St. Louis, Baylor, Connecticut, Depaul, Marquette, and all the big 10 schools except for Michigan.

click here for the full April 13th update from IBS(local ticket)[/URL]

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Dale Van Wright[/URL] is a 6'6, 200 pound small forward out of Bellaire High School in Houston. Rivals has his schools of interested listed as Baylor, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas A&M.

In the February 26th update[/URL] on this player, Rivals reported that he has an offer from Baylor.

Texas roundball.com has Van Wright listed as the 9th best player[/URL] overall in the state of Texas for the class of 2006.

Rivals national rankings
#35 - May 27th, 2004

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The Bears are making headway with Rashad and he has Baylor in his top 5.

Rashad Johnson

Calvin Miles

Calvin Miles[/URL] is a 6'6 junior forward out of Dallas Skyline.

Here is a clip about him from Texas Roundball.com

"Calvin had an excellent weekend showing off his sweet left handed stroke. He got to the hoop and finished with several big dunks. An excellent ball handler and passer, Miles is definitely an ELITE recruit in 2005." - LINK - texas roundball[/URL]

He was the district 10-5A newcomer of the year this past season as a sophomore.

I'm working on getting together a little more detailed scouting report on him. Pretty impressive credentials, based on what I know about him so far.

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Reggie got his first offer, and he seems to be interested in what the Bears have to offer.

Reggie Stephens Update

Marcus Walker[/URL] is a 6'2, 160 pound combo guard out of Archbishop O'Hara in Kansas City.

He is being recruited by a number of high major programs, including Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor, Marquette, Illinois, Arkansas, Iowa and Duquesne, among others.

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Dominic James[/URL] is a 5'10, 165 pound point guard prospect out of Richmond, Indiana, who currently checks in at 52nd on the Rivals national list.

Currently, he has interest from Iowa, Marquette, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Baylor, Illinois, Cleveland State, Ball State, Mighigan State, and North Carolina State, among others.

In the April 7th update(local ticket)[/URL] on James, he said that he does not know a whole lot about Baylor, but that he is interested in taking a look at the school.

In the April 12th update on this player(ultimate ticket)[/URL], James's high school coach says that Ohio State, Marquette, Purdue, and Iowa are planning to make in home visits with this prospect.

TC

Skyline receiver Mikail Baker has committed to the Bears. 5'11" 175 lbs. ran a 4.4 on a rain slicked surface at the A&M Nike camp. A story will be coming soon.
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