Basketball Recruiting: Derrick Favors

by TrueCubbie on Jan 11, 2009 8:56 PM EST

Football recruiting is certainly a hot topic...but I wanted to introduce you to an exceptional player who is considering playing at FSU. Currently, he seems to be deciding between Georgia and Georgia Tech, but Leonard Hamilton has a nack for recruiting players out of Georgia. One recent example....Chris Singleton.

Favors is a 6'9 220lbs Center/Power Forward. He is listed as Rivals #1 center and is listed number 4 overall. On ESPN.com, he is listed number two overall.

Here are a couple of his highlite tapes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-z1roI7-fQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNnEP7Capg (He shows up at about 1:15 in the clip)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clvb9ohoer4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeTts4p1BPM&feature=related

Imagine the addition of Favors to Michael Snaer, Chris Singelton, Solomon Alabi, Jordan Demercy...this would be an absolutely monster line up.

Dear Leonard Hamilton and Chris Singleton,

Please find Derrick Favors and let him know that this Noles will be a force to be reckoned with the in the ACC for the next 5 years. Make him an offer. Do not let him go to GTech or UGA.

Sincerely,

TrueCubbie and the rest of the fans at Tomahawk Nation.

Unfortunately, I don't think we get him. Fingers crossed...

(FYI: Rivals does not have him listed as being interested, other sites do, take it for its worth....however 5 star recruit Latavious Williams is listed as being interested in FSU, but he'll likely end up at Baylor, his home school)

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I don't know how Leonard gets these kids

FSU recruiting in all the 3 major sports is kind of befuddling.

We overachieve in football and basketball, getting talent that should land us in the top 5 or top 10 in the nation.

Then in baseball we do a somewhat poor job, taking lots of local kids and not making much of an effort to recruit guys out of the region. Yet our baseball team is right up there with the best in the nation.

http://today.sportingnews.com/sportingnewstoday/20081229/?pg=2

by tdchrisdavis on Jan 11, 2009 9:22 PM EST reply actions

In regards to Favors

That would be amazing if we could get him. He’d obviously start from day one, but I imagine he’d start from day 1 wherever he goes.

http://today.sportingnews.com/sportingnewstoday/20081229/?pg=2

by tdchrisdavis on Jan 11, 2009 9:24 PM EST up reply actions

Agreed. He may be a one and done wherever he goes. He would be an excellent addition. There are a few other players who are considering FSU. I'll bring them up as we go along.

by TrueCubbie on Jan 11, 2009 9:42 PM EST up reply actions

It feels foreign for me to talk about basketball recruiting.

Isn’t it shady?

I’ll try to get more engrossed in basketball as the year goes on.

Our goal is simple: Best in the land

Kill a fly with an axe -- Mickey Andrews

by FSUSOM on Jan 11, 2009 9:57 PM EST reply actions

Shady meaning dirty?

I don’t think it’s any worse than football recruiting.

http://today.sportingnews.com/sportingnewstoday/20081229/?pg=2

by tdchrisdavis on Jan 11, 2009 11:25 PM EST up reply actions

AAU is bad stuff.

Our goal is simple: Best in the land

Kill a fly with an axe -- Mickey Andrews

by FSUSOM on Jan 12, 2009 5:13 PM EST up reply actions

This guy is a total beast.

I have to say i know basically nothing about basketball recruiting.

I assume he’d play power forward here?

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by Bud Elliott on Jan 12, 2009 12:57 AM EST reply actions

It's highly unlikely that we get him, but we are on his radar. Looks like GTech has him pretty much wrapped up. But, we can remain hopeful...Hamilton has done some amazing things.

by TrueCubbie on Jan 12, 2009 6:26 PM EST up reply actions

Sure would be doing us a .... favor... by signing.. hahahaha, no...

"I am the Real Vine and my Father is the Farmer. He cuts off every branch of me that doesn't bear grapes. And every branch that is grape-bearing he prunes back so it will bear even more"

by FSUvaFan on Jan 13, 2009 10:24 PM EST reply actions