Basketball: Utes hire an outstanding local recruiter
University of Utah basketball coach Jim Boylen announced today that he has hired College of Southern Idaho coach Barret Peery to be an assistant coach on the Utah staff.
Peery becomes the second Utah assistant with strong Utah ties, after Boylen hired former Taylorsville High star Stan Johnson, 29, two weeks ago. Peery and Johnson replace Chris Jones, who left for Utah State, and Marty Wilson, who left for the head job at Pepperdine.
As far as recruiting is concerned, the hirings have to mean that the second-year Utah coach is serious about going head-to-head with BYU (and Utah State) for the top local high school players. Frankly, there was a lot of concern about that when Jones, who played at Judge Memorial, left to join Stew Morrill's staff at USU.
Peery, who was 85-19 in three years at CSI, is highly respected by Utah prep coaches. Like Johnson, he also played for Southern Utah University. After playing for the T-Birds, he was an assistant coach at SUU from 1998-2002.
He played high school basketball for Payson and is known as an outstanding recruiter. Recently, he persuaded Pine View High star Louis Garrett to sign with CSI. Garrett is the younger brother of Oklahoma State's Brad Garrett, who missed the season after injurying his shoulder while catching some waves on a boogie board in Hawaii after the Maui Classic.
"[Peery] has national recruiting connections [and] is aggressive and sharp," Boylen said in a Utah news release.
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Cottonwood High's John Martinez, ranked as one of the top offensive linemen in the country by every recruiting service and Web site out there, told the Web site tigersportsdigest.com, part of the scout.com network, that two colleges are now at the top of his list.
Not surprisingly, they are LSU and USC.
"Those are the two schools that I am definitely taking visits to this summer," Martinez told the LSU-based site.
Martinez said former BYU coach Gary Crowton, now LSU's offensive coordinator, visited Cottonwood last week.
The first-team Tribune all-stater from 2007 reported that he just got his ACT college admission test scores back and that he received an 18.
Peery becomes the second Utah assistant with strong Utah ties, after Boylen hired former Taylorsville High star Stan Johnson, 29, two weeks ago. Peery and Johnson replace Chris Jones, who left for Utah State, and Marty Wilson, who left for the head job at Pepperdine.
As far as recruiting is concerned, the hirings have to mean that the second-year Utah coach is serious about going head-to-head with BYU (and Utah State) for the top local high school players. Frankly, there was a lot of concern about that when Jones, who played at Judge Memorial, left to join Stew Morrill's staff at USU.
Peery, who was 85-19 in three years at CSI, is highly respected by Utah prep coaches. Like Johnson, he also played for Southern Utah University. After playing for the T-Birds, he was an assistant coach at SUU from 1998-2002.
He played high school basketball for Payson and is known as an outstanding recruiter. Recently, he persuaded Pine View High star Louis Garrett to sign with CSI. Garrett is the younger brother of Oklahoma State's Brad Garrett, who missed the season after injurying his shoulder while catching some waves on a boogie board in Hawaii after the Maui Classic.
"[Peery] has national recruiting connections [and] is aggressive and sharp," Boylen said in a Utah news release.
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Cottonwood High's John Martinez, ranked as one of the top offensive linemen in the country by every recruiting service and Web site out there, told the Web site tigersportsdigest.com, part of the scout.com network, that two colleges are now at the top of his list.
Not surprisingly, they are LSU and USC.
"Those are the two schools that I am definitely taking visits to this summer," Martinez told the LSU-based site.
Martinez said former BYU coach Gary Crowton, now LSU's offensive coordinator, visited Cottonwood last week.
The first-team Tribune all-stater from 2007 reported that he just got his ACT college admission test scores back and that he received an 18.
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