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Username Post: Aanon Gray        (Topic#766)
TomPittsburgh 
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02-22-05 06:45 PM - Post#4794    

Does anyone know if Penn recruited Aaron Gray, now the backlup center at Pitt. He is a 7 footer from Emmaus, PA and an outstanding student. He would be a perfect fit at Penn. Not only is he a 7 footer but he is a big body type. Scored 15 points in 15 minutes against Villanova Sunday. Played in the Sonny Hill League so Fran must certainly have known about him.

 
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Re: Aanon Gray
02-22-05 06:47 PM - Post#4795    
    In response to TomPittsburgh

the above should read AARON gray not Aanon Gray.

 
SFlaQuaker 
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Re: Aanon Gray
02-22-05 07:12 PM - Post#4796    
    In response to TomPittsburgh

Most 7 footers w/ big bodies that score 15 points in 15 minutes at Pitt are never really ivy recruits...

 
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Re: Aanon Gray
02-22-05 08:21 PM - Post#4797    
    In response to SFlaQuaker

well U wasn't really an Ivy Recruit either and he was convinced to come to Penn. At one time we almost had Gene Banks. Bill Bradley -- a much better player than Aaron Gray dropped Duke for Princeton. Banks dropped Penn for Duke. You never know if a recriuit will come until you make the pitch. I'm trying to find out if we even pitched big Mr. Gray.

 
SFlaQuaker 
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Re: Aanon Gray
02-22-05 08:41 PM - Post#4798    
    In response to TomPittsburgh

It's differnt these days. As for U, he had signed a scholarship w/ LBSU I believe, so if he'd gone to a school w/ a scholarship, he would have had to sit out a year.

 
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Re: Aanon Gray
02-22-05 08:57 PM - Post#4799    
    In response to SFlaQuaker

U had signed an LOI with Long Beach State.

If Gray was ever on Penn's radar, he was a faint blip. Big men are probably the hardest position to recruit in the Ivies, simply because it's the hardest position to recruit period. You rarely have a true center in the league. Right now Cusworth's the only one I can think of (Wallace is a Princeton center, Martin's really more of a PF). Penn's been scratching like mad the past few years for a true center and there've been some close calls. If you want a nice example of what-might-have-been take Nick Smith at Illinois, who's 7-2, rail-thin, and actually contributing. He came very close to coming to Penn where he probably would have been a pretty major factor.

 
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Re: Aanon Gray
02-24-05 02:35 PM - Post#4800    
    In response to SFlaQuaker

U did spend a year at Prep School - Gene Banks (from West Philly High - my Mom's HS) had Penn as his first choice - but the freshman team stuff tipped things Duke's way - Gene did end up playing in the Palestra his Senior year as his homecoming game to West Philly - Mike G. made our hands of stone center (George Noon) look bad (or was that his hands of stone)

 
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