- ICYMI – #pcbb Weekly Recruiting Update 7/3/14
- Lansing State Journal – Brian Calloway – Eastern grad LaDontae Henton focused on perimeter game as he looks to senior year, pro career
- FriarBasketball.com – Kevin Farrahar – Kadeem Batts’ Summer League Schedule
- GoLocal Prov – Jack Andrade – PC Basketball: A Coaching Dynasty
- GoLocal Prov – John Rooke – Thinking Out Loud
Poll: Should the Friars add another guard for the 2014-15 season?
Happy July 4th Friartown
Today is a day to celebrate this great country of ours. We wouldn’t be able to do that without the brave men and women who protect our freedoms everyday. Honor our veterans and active duty military personnel today just as much as you BBQ and light off fireworks.
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Wake Forest Transfer Tyler Cavanaugh Chooses George Washington
Big man Tyler Cavanaugh who announced his intention to transfer from Wake Forest a few weeks ago has decided to transfer to George Washington. The Colonials recruited Cavanaugh out of high school. Ed Cooley also recruited Cavanaugh while the Providence head man was at Fairfield and Cooley had reached out to the stretch 4 but ultimately Cavanaugh only visited Butler, Dayton and GW.
He will have to sit a year per NCAA transfer rules and have 2 years of eligibility for the Colonials.
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#pcbb Weekly Recruiting Update 7/3/14
With Friday being the 4th of July I am releasing the weekly recruiting update a day earlier than normal. This weekly update will return to it’s normally scheduled Friday next week. This will be the final recruiting update prior to the first July live period which begins at 5pm on July 9th. For more information on the recruiting calendar over the next few weeks, check out this page.
News came down Wednesday afternoon that Josh Fortune was transferring to Colorado. This ends one of the more bizarre and confusing player transfers I’ve ever seen and I doubt the real reasons will ever be truly made public. Whatever the reasons, it seems Fortune was looking for a fresh start and he will get that at Colorado which is much further from his home than Providence, for what that’s worth.
Fortune leaving has left a bit of a hole at the shooting guard position. After the various swings and misses this spring, Ed Cooley and his staff are apparently on the fence about bringing someone in at this late stage. I’m told that Armel Potter is anxious to have the PC coaches watch him play live which is something that hasn’t happened as of yet. Potter is mulling over possibly playing somewhere during the July live periods but no decision has been made on that. I was told that Potter hasn’t spoken with Cooley yet but I get the sense that if Cooley calls with an offer, Potter will be on the next plane to Friartown. The former Florida Atlantic commit has offers from Appalachian State, Ball State, Iona, Niagara, Tennessee Tech and some other mid majors.
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#pcbb Links of the Day 7/3/14
- ICYMI – Report: Bryce Cotton To Sign Two Year Deal with the San Antonio Spurs
- ICYMI – Josh Fortune To Transfer To Colorado
- FriarBasketball.com – Kevin Farrahar – Cotton’s Top 10 Games: #2 Big East Champions
- Kentucky released their non-conference schedule yesterday and although we already knew the PC game at Rupp was November 30th, they also revealed that it will be at 2pm and televised on ESPN2. Click here to see Providence’s full non-conference schedule to date for the 2014-15 season.
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Josh Fortune to Transfer to Colorado
CBSSports.com’s Jon Rothstein is reporting that Josh Fortune will transfer to Colorado, per Angela Fortune, Josh’s mother.
While the original reasoning for Fortune’s transfer was to be closer to home, Colorado is in fact further away in miles from his home in Hampton, VA. Per Google Maps, Hampton, VA is 548 miles from Providence. It’s a roughly 3 hour flight and about a 9 hour drive. Now let’s look at those same stats, again via Google Maps, for Hampton, VA to Boulder, CO. The distance from Hampton to Boulder is 1,764 miles. A flight is roughly 4 hours. Driving time is 24 hours. Let that sink in for a minute.
Following the “closer to home” reasoning provided, Mrs. Fortune told Inside the Peninsula District‘s Dave Johnson “it was for professional reasons. He believes it’s in his best interest to transfer to find, in his words, ‘an environment conducive to my academic, athletic and social growth.'”
Any less confused?
In the end, Fortune leaves a school where he a school where he played in 69 games, 1,941 minutes (an average of 28.1 mpg) in his career. He would have likely been the unquestioned starting shooting guard a year after being named the team’s Most Improved Player at the end of the year banquet a month before announcing his transfer. Fortune’s competition at Colorado will likely include Jaron Hopkins, George King, Eli Stalzer, Xavier Talton, Dustin Thomas and anyone the Buffs coaching staff brings in during the 2015 recruiting class.
Fortune visited Minnesota and LSU in addition to Colorado which was his first visit during the transfer process. According to Rothstein, Fortune chose Colorado over LSU and Valparaiso. Fortune will have to sit out the 2014-15 season per NCAA transfer rules and have 2 years of eligibility remaining.
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