Basketball: Source says Cougars never offered Olsen
Saturday, we mentioned that Jeremy Olsen, a 6-foot-9 forward from Collins Hill High in Suwanee, Ga., had committed to play basketball for the University of Utah.
At least one national recruiting Web site that reported the commitment noted that Olsen also had an offer from BYU.
Not true, according to a source close to the recruitment of Olsen. The rising senior is LDS and lived in Utah until he was 7.
The Cougars had some interest in the big guy, my source said, but never made an offer after watching him rather intensely during the spring evaluation period.
I got the feeling that the Cougars, who will have four, maybe five, scholarships to dole out to the class of 2009, were probably not going to offer Olsen, either.
It is well known that the Cougars have offered Lone Peak guard Tyler Haws, Pleasant Grove guard C.J. Wilcox and Provo big man Brandon Davies.
Of those three, they are least likely to get Wilcox, who recently added offers from Miami and Washington to his list and had seven the last time I checked. Utah, Utah State, BYU, UNLV and Iowa State have also offered the 6-5 shooting guard.
My gut feeling is that the race for Haws will come down to BYU and Stanford.
As for Davies, he did not have the best spring, at least two college coaches have told me, and will be watched closely in July's evaluation camps.
That brings us to a local big guy whose name keeps popping up more and more: Lone Peak's 6-10 Nate Austin.
Utah State has offered, and he is getting a lot of interest from other intermountain area schools, including BYU.
At least one national recruiting Web site that reported the commitment noted that Olsen also had an offer from BYU.
Not true, according to a source close to the recruitment of Olsen. The rising senior is LDS and lived in Utah until he was 7.
The Cougars had some interest in the big guy, my source said, but never made an offer after watching him rather intensely during the spring evaluation period.
I got the feeling that the Cougars, who will have four, maybe five, scholarships to dole out to the class of 2009, were probably not going to offer Olsen, either.
It is well known that the Cougars have offered Lone Peak guard Tyler Haws, Pleasant Grove guard C.J. Wilcox and Provo big man Brandon Davies.
Of those three, they are least likely to get Wilcox, who recently added offers from Miami and Washington to his list and had seven the last time I checked. Utah, Utah State, BYU, UNLV and Iowa State have also offered the 6-5 shooting guard.
My gut feeling is that the race for Haws will come down to BYU and Stanford.
As for Davies, he did not have the best spring, at least two college coaches have told me, and will be watched closely in July's evaluation camps.
That brings us to a local big guy whose name keeps popping up more and more: Lone Peak's 6-10 Nate Austin.
Utah State has offered, and he is getting a lot of interest from other intermountain area schools, including BYU.
5 Comments:
Jay,
Mike Lewis has a post on his blog that has Olsen saying he DID choose Utah over BYU indicating that BYU had offered him a scholarship. So who is telling the truth here? It seems the coaches at BYU would have the most reason to be misleading about whether they offered or not because it looks bad every time they lose an LDS recruit.
Yes, Jay, please pounce on this for Utethunder so that he can feel good. Certainly someone must by lying...or misleading and it must by BYU.
Sorry UteThunder, it looks like you've lost rights to all the smack you've been talking to your BYU co-workers all week.
I know winning these meaningless recruiting battles is all you have right now, but I guess you'll have to wait a little longer to gloat.
Ah, the BYU fan mindset. You guys would rather believe a lie that saves face for your team whereas Ute fans would rather know the TRUTH. We don't care if it portrays our team in a negative light or a positive one, we just want the truth. Sure, we would prefer that the truth is positive, but we can live with it if it isn't. BYU fans can't. I just wanted to know what the real scoop was. Obviously you two would rather believe this misinformation if in fact that's what it turns out to be.
The TRUTH? You can't handle the TRUTH!
Post a Comment
<< Home