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Steve Victory JOURNAL – Recruiting update 2007-08
It’s one thing to recruit for one or two positions. Try filling seven spots. That’s the challenge Victory faced this season – the downside of having a team with seven seniors.
The biggest catch Victory reels in for the Cougars – SG Chad Driver from Queens, a five-star prospect listed as the 10th best player in the nation by Hoops Galore and 17th by .400 Sports. His stats are eye-popping: 37.5 points per game, 5.5 assists and 5.7 rebounds. How did Charleston get him?
PG Scott Fields from West Virginia is listed as a 4-star guy by Hoops Galore, averaging 22.5 ppg and 11.2 apg. Both could start right off the bat next year (moving Jabari Tucker to SF?). But Fields may be an academic casualty, sporting a very low GPA and just barely sneaking into college. Victory feels he’s worth taking a chance on…
Victory lands two other guards – PG Jeryl Cage (16 ppg, 5 apg) and PG Austin Jarvis (22.5 ppg). Charleston won’t be guard-thin for a while, that’s for sure. The Cougars also get two in-state players – C Antwan Blackshear from Hanahan, S.C. and PF Antonio Hillier from Blacksburg, S.C. (19 ppg, 7 rpg). SF Wade Clemmons rounds out the class. He doesn’t look so good. He started his senior year of high school well but faded at the end…
Victory will be interested in knowing how .400 Sports will rank this class at the start of next year – and if he’ll be around to see any of them play…
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