A disturbing-yet-inevitable story out of Los Angeles today: Kentucky has received a verbal commitment from an eighth grade student.
The kid’s name is Michael Avery and according to his current coach Russell White, “He’s got great tools for an eighth-grader.” That’s nice.
It’s against NCAA regulations for Gillispie to offer a kid that can’t cook his own dinner a scholarship, but he saw him play in some sort of tournament last weekend and was impressed. (Really? Was this by coincidence or was he attending an eighth-grade basketball tournament searching for future recruits?)
Avery’s father talked to the Kentucky coach yesterday and told him, “This is all Mike’s decision.” Right.
