Georgetown Recruiting DeAndre Daniels, Big Man Now Eligible to Play in 2010

by Hire Esherick on Aug 20, 2010 11:58 AM EDT in Recruiting

Forget our 2011 woes, Scout is reporting that Georgetown is among a handful of schools in contact with DeAndre Daniels, a former Texas-bound big man who decommitted on Monday. According to Scout:

Daniels decommitted from Texas and since has gotten interest from USC, UCLA, Washington, UNLV, St. John's, Kentucky, Georgetown, Memphis and Gonzaga.

Daniels was ranked as the 10th best player in the Class of 2011 but is eligible to play this upcoming season. Nation of Blue states:

Daniels is really a 2010 kid, but he missed a significant amount of school as a sophomore while he and his father cared for his sick grandfather. While Daniels' dad work, Daniels took care of his grandfather, who had cancer, so he missed like a semester of school and then didn't play basketball as a junior. That's the way I understand the situation went.

So because of that hardship, Daniels has been classified as a junior when really he is a senior in age. They were awaiting a waiver to grant an extra year of athletic eligibility, but while they've waited, Daniels has taken lots of summer and night classes, and has become eligible to be a part of the 2010 class.

Georgetown has one scholarship open this year due to Greg Monroe's departure to the NBA. Don't get your hopes up though, looks like Kentucky and Calipari are all over the big man.

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You never know. There’s a lot of mixed reports as there always are.

1) Still not sure if he’ll be 2010 or 2011 ive seen people say there’s no way he’ll be able to play in 2010. I’ve seen people say he’s already cleared to play in 2010. so who knows

2) While a couple weeks back it was rumored that Daniels would decommit and was looking at kentucky, that was before the commitment of Anthony Davis. As of today Daniels still has not received an offer from Kentucky, so perhaps they feel they don’t need him with the stacked class they’ve already signed for 2011. They could probably use him for 2010, but again it’s not known if he can really play in 2010 or not.

3) Especially if he’s 2010 we can offer immediate playing time at the 4. of the schools that contacted him the ones i see us competing with are: knetucky if they actually offer, st. john’s if he’s 2011, washington, and memphis. Rumor is he’s not going to go to UCLA. Makes no sense to go to USC since they’re on probation, and I don’t see hime going to UNLV or Gonzaga. This is just my opinion.

by hoyasincebirth on Aug 21, 2010 11:26 AM EDT reply actions