Al Featherston has an article up on Shavlik Randolph and UNC's
control of in-state recruiting.  He says the last in-state
recruit UNC lost (that they really wanted) was David Thompson, but we can think
of a more recent kid: Danny Manning. A reader reminds us, though, that he actually spent his senior year in Lawrence.
He's right though, this is one of the great, major recruiting battles in recent years. Â
Tim Stevens tells us
Shavlik Randolph may be close to a decision, and in one of the continuing
effects of the terrorist attacks, Billy Donovan couldn't fly up for his
in-home.Â
Incidentally, we also heard that former Georgetown coach John
Thompson was scheduled to be on one of the planes which was hijacked. One
wonders how he would have reacted. Certainly he's not a man to take much guff. Not that we're suggesting that he would have changed things by himself, but he would have, at the least, made himself known.