No. 3: Arlington Bowie's Star Point Guard D'Von Campbell Commits to the UTEP Miners
by Adrian Mac on Sep 22, 2010 10:04 PM MDT
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Print3 Star Prospect Campbell is Rated the 28th Best Point Guard in the Nation by Rivals
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Tim Floyd's first full recruiting class at UTEP received yet another boost today when he received a commitment from D'Von Campbell, a 6'0, 155 lb. point guard. Rivals.com ranks D'Von as the 28th best point guard in the nation and the 140th best overall prospect in the 2011 class. ESPN notes that NY2LA.com was first to report the commitment but Fox Sports' Jeff Goodman was also on it.
Campbell chose to become a Miner over offers from the Big 12's (or Pac 10's) Colorado and perennial basketball contender Creighton. There's no doubt about it, Tim Floyd is battling with the best of them across the country and is starting to gain some serious momentum on the recruiting trail. Check out the list of Rivals.com's Top 30 national point guards. The only schools from outside the Big 6 conferences to have a commit from one of these athletes so far are UTEP and Xavier.
Campbell helped lead Bowie to the District 4-5A title last season. Floyd now has two 3 Star recruits in his 2011 class (Darius Nelson is the other). Nelson and Ragland are both 6'5 forwards with the ability to play in the post or on the wing. UTEP will obviously need to add some new point guards to the roster with the departure of veteran Julyan Stone after his coming senior season. His key backup, Myron Strong, transferred.
As part of his 2010 class, Floyd brought in guards Desmond Lee and Michael Perez. Lee failed to qualify academically this season and we don't have any indication if Perez will play point or off guard as of yet.
Tomorrow, I'll try and get some video and more information on Campbell will of course be posted here as it becomes available.
More on UTEP Basketball's 2011 Class below:
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Did I read that right----a 6' 255 lb point guard???
I would hope that is a typo no point guard -- 6’ at 255 lb!!!
Ever heard of
Sherron Collins? He was relatively the same size. He was a huge player (no pun intended) for Kansas.
by jakeprobst on Sep 22, 2010 11:07 PM MDT via mobile reply actions
Im going to guess 45,000
Which will easily be 2nd best in the C-USA> That’s a lot of Orange out there.
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Yeah- Houston barely sold out the UTEP game with 32k?
Everytime people want to criticize EL Pasoan’s for not supporting UTEP I think about that show at Houston. Obviously I wish we sold out every game but man, 40-45k is a hell of a lot of support.
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52000?
it would be nice if the basketball rivalry transfered to football n the sun bowl sold out. your right ecu is the only team that gives us competion when it comes to attendace numbers
45k+
It would a real shame if the sun bowl doesnt sell out. Add the cowboys season is over to the list of reason why we reach 45k+.
by MinerManiax on Sep 23, 2010 11:16 AM MDT via mobile up reply actions
I think if UTEP can get past Memphis and edge New Mexico (who's playing terrible, terrible ball right now)t
Then there is a very legit chance for a sellout vs. Rice on 10/9 (another night game by the way). UTEP would be 4-1 and only 2 games away from a bowl bid.
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And lose the last 7 games..
and end up going 4-8…again.
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by TooLegitToQuit on Sep 23, 2010 3:40 PM MDT up reply actions
Memphis does have a quarterback controversy!!!
Memphis just happens to have the son of the principal owner of FedEx on the football team and is a quarterback. He maybe not the quarterback but you can bet that he will see considerable playing time and maybe this weekend at the Sun Bowl.
He is the apparant successor to his dad at FedEx as soon as he graduates and surely his dad wants to his son to lead Memphis Tigers on a scoring drive and earn a letterman’s jacket. This will lead to a public announcement of the transition of power at FEdEx with his son wearing a Memphis letterjacket.
The Memphis fans all expect this to happen and has stirred quite a controversery in Memphis.
Good stuff
“I Go Brown” ha- actually Fred Smith’s love of all things Tiger has made me bypass FedEx recently- especially when he tried to buy Memphis into a BCS league.
Cannon is back on the roster but he is listed at #2 behind Ryan Williams. Ryan’s been good, but you do have to wonder if he’ll be on a short leash. Cannon did not look good in his first outings out.
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