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RECRUITING NOTEBOOK: TOBIAS & TYLER HARRIS, DARYL TRAYNHAM, JEREMIAH DAVIS UPDATES

It was a very busy Tuesday around the basketball offices at Rutgers as the news ciculated that RU Dismissed Corey Chandler from the team and a shake-up of their coaching staff led to a popular assistant coach being re-assigned to the new position of ‘recruiting coordinator.’

With former Lehigh head coach Sal Mentesana being added to Fred Hill’s coaching staff as an assitant, Craig Carter, a former standout guard at RU from 1987-91, where he played on the last two NCAA Tournament teams the Scarlet Knights produced, has been moved from the actual coaching staff into a newly formed position of recruiting coordinator. The news is not sitting well with one father of a key Rutgers‘ recruit.

“We are very disappointed that Craig will not be an assistant coach at Rutgers, we feel he was a great person who’s honest, respectful and full of basketball knowledge,” Torrel Harris Sr., father of elite 2010 recruit Tobias Harris, told NBE in an email earlier today. “He was one of the best recruiters in the country.”

The Scarlet Knights were the first school to offer Tobias a scholarship and they remained strong in the race for the 6-foot-8 1/2, 215-pound forward despite the emergence of many of the elite schools in the country on his trail. The dedication of Carter had a lot to do with that.

“Besides myself, Craig was the next person who saw all of Tobias’ game,” said Mr. Harris.

For now, the Harris family will continue with the recruiting process. The next date to remember is a likely trip to Syracuse for their elite camp on August 30th. Following that trip will be in-home visits with college coaches, which a schedule has yet to be finalized.

“We will have our home visits first, then cut our list down and take official [visits],” said Torrel Harris.

NBE will continue to follow the Harris recruitment as several Big East schools try and land the five-star prospect.
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While Tobias Harris is one of the nation’s elite prospects in the class of 2010, expect many of the same schools to be tracking younger brother Tyler Harris in two years, in fact, many are already.

“St. John’s, Hofstra, Syracuse, Duquesne, West Virginia, Tennessee, Louisville [and] Delaware,” Torrel Harris Sr. responded when asked by NBE which schools were most involved in Tyler’s recruitment.

Tyler is a 6-foot-7, 175-pound G/F that has recently re-classified into the class of 2012, which should be his class based on age. Mr. Harris indicated the decision was based on helping Tyler become physically stronger and allow him to grow into his body and mature with the kids of the same age.

Keep the name of Tyler Harris in mind…we are certain to hear much more about him in the future as well!
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Highly regarded Muncie (IN) Central High school guard Jeremiah Davis checked in with NBE to update his recruitment as the summer winds down. Davis is a member of the class of 2011 and a strong summer with Indiana Elite on the AAU circuit has brough plenty of recruiting attention his way.

“The recruiting is going really well,” Davis told NBE recently. “[I am] getting a lot of respect from this July period, I’m working really hard and glad to see it pay off.”

“Indiana, Tennessee Ohio State, Cincinnati, Xavier, Purdue, Ball State, Dayton [and] Miami (FL)” were the schools mentioned by Davis when asked about who he is hearing from the most.

Since the July period, Davis also said he picked up offers from Ohio State and Dayton to go with their previous interest and took a visit to Cincinnati. New interest is also being received from Georgetown and Kentucky. Davis is also planning to visit Michigan September 5th and is working at setting up a visit to Detroit, too.
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Daryl Traynham showed once again this past summer with the DC Assault AAU program that there are not too many pass-first point guards available in the 2010 class that can run a team better than him. Traynham will be taking his game to Lee Academy in Maine this season for one last run before college. Currently, four schools have positioned themselves quite well in the race, as the attention grows for team’s looking for a point guard to hand and distribute the basketball.

“My recuritment is picking up heavy,” said Traynham of the activity since July. “Tennessee, Western Kentucky, Seton Hall [and] Auburn [are recruitimg me aggressively].

Traynham informed NBE that all four schools have offered and he plans to visit all four in September.
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