'06 IN PF Jamil Tucker (Virginia Verbal)

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

rivals.com$

7/8/05

Tucker says if he decided today it would be OSU. He loves the big campus and school. He will decide after camp, OSU is definetly the leader.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

scout.com$

7/8/05

Tucker is having a press conference at his high school on Monday to announce his college choice. All signs point to Ohio State.

(I will leave the thread as is until after the press conference on Monday, stay tuned for a time to be released probably tomorrow.)

on another note......I had some major vcash on Tucker....

[CoosMeister]

Does he have an offer yet?!

[BuckeyeBK]

That is what is confusing me as well... BSB is clearly saying he doesn't have an offer.. is this another Kenyon Buford situation?

[schwab]

I'm guessing OSU all the way. Without knowing for sure, it's pretty clear to me that Tucker has his OSU offer, and will soon verbal before it's too late. If he is this excited about joining the "Thad Five" (or is it six, seven??) then he would hold out a little longer if he didn't have the offer already IMO. Since his PC is already set to go on Monday, I think it can only mean one thing. He's jumping aboard as soon as he can. Go Bucks!

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

I posted this on Friday morning......according to Tucker he has an offer.

rivals.com$

7/8/05

Rivals is now reporting that according to Tucker, he now has an OSU offer and will decide after camp. OSU is his #1 choice, he wants to go home and announce it for his hometown newspaper. Tucker does say that the other schools are not out of the mix but OSU is the leader.

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Obviously, there is some confusion on wether he has an offer or not, I find it hard to believe that he would hold a news conference to announce to OSU without knowing for sure wether he had an offer, nevertheless.....this is the world of recruiting, so until the PC is over, we can all speculate.

[AirForceBuck]

Tucker claims that him, Conley and Oden all decided that they would attend OSU together. We all knew Conley and Oden were in it together but Tucker I guess has been having a relationship with OSU for a while now. This is what Bucknuts has updated saying that Matta is out of offers for him, though Tucker thinks/says differently. Tucker claims, "Ohio State is my number one choice right now, " said Tucker. "They told me the offer is there and I plan on decided what school I'm going to by the end of this camp." They then rounded out the paragraph saying that Matta lured Tucker in by believing he would be the final link in the "dynamic recruiting class."

Tucker is a good and talented kid, lets just hope we dont shy away someone even more talented like Macklin who now says "OSU is greedy and Oden & Conley want him."

Any chance that they are running these kids by Oden and Conley for their approval?

[osugrad21]

NWITimes

West Side's Tucker waiting on Ohio State

BY JEFF CARROLL
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This story ran on nwitimes.com on Saturday, July 9, 2005 12:56 AM CDT

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Closer to a college decision than Moore or Hummel, who will also be a junior, is 6-foot-8 West Side swing player Jamil Tucker, who is participating in the Nike Camp but was unavailable for comment Friday. Tucker has several scholarship offers on the table, including solid ones from USC, Arizona, UCLA and Marquette, according to West Side coach John Boyd.

However, Ohio State, contrary to a handful of web and print reports, has not offered Tucker a scholarship yet.

Buckeyes coach Thad Matta, who already sealed the services of Lawrence North seniors Greg Oden and Michael Conley, is awaiting a decision from Memphis (Tenn.) Mitchell's Thaddeus Young, Boyd said, before deciding whether to use a valuable scholarship on Tucker.

"He's waiting for them to decide and that's kind of upsetting me because I don't think a kid like Jamil should have to wait," Boyd said. "You either put it on the table or you don't. I was just emailing those guys and telling them, ‘He needs to know by the time he leaves Nike or else we're gonna move on.'

"I'm not gonna wait on Thad Matta. Thad Matta has an opportunity to have a great player. Outside of Oden, Jamil could be the guy with the most up side (in the senior class)."

Despite those strong words, Boyd also stressed that he has nothing personally against the Ohio State coach, calling him a "great person" and lauding his work developing strong Indiana ties all the way back to his days as an assistant coach under Barry Collier at Butler.

"We understand that this is a business and we're not gonna jeopardize what the kid has going and stop other schools in their place who want him," Boyd said.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

IndyStar

7/10/05

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Gary's Tucker says he can do more

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Jamil Tucker, a 6-8 forward from Gary, Ind., played with varied success during the Nike All-America Camp at IUPUI. Playing for Team Wake Forest, Tucker faded in and out of play for much of Saturday's games.

"I've been average," Tucker said. "I haven't played my best game or best effort yet. I don't think I hurt myself, but I don't think I helped myself."

Tucker is being recruited many Big Ten schools, including Indiana, Michigan State and Ohio State. The Gary West High School star favors the Buckeyes and sounded ready to commit earlier in the camp and join Lawrence North duo Greg Oden and Mike Conley in Columbus in 2006.

"I have to wait to find out what (Ohio State) is going to do," he said. "I'm going to call on Monday to find out if they're going to offer."

Tucker, ranked by rivals.com as the 45th-best prospect in the nation for 2006, hasn't ruled out playing his college hoops in Bloomington. However, if Mike Davis doesn't retain his job following next season, the Hoosiers will slip down the slender forward's list.

There had been talk of Tucker possibly looking at Purdue, but he said Boilermakers coach Matt Painter hasn't been in contact with him.

This saga is like a roller coaster.

IndyStar

7/10/05


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Gary (Ind.) West forward Jamil Tucker has said for a while now that he wants to attend Ohio State. He is expected to announce on Monday that he plans to play for the Buckeyes, joining a class that includes Oden and Conley. But the 6-9 Tucker is just one of several forwards the Buckeyes are recruiting. Ohio State has given out four of seven available scholarships. Coach Thad Matta also is in on Memphis forward Thaddeus Young, the top uncommitted player in the class of 2006; Virginia power forward Vernon Macklin, and Andrean power forward Luke Harangody. Recruiting observers said this week they'd be surprised if Harangody doesn't announce for Notre Dame. . . . Expect to see Ohio State on CBS quite a lot in the 2006-07 season. A CBS representative was overheard telling Matta the network wanted the Buckeyes as much as possible when Oden arrives on campus. Expect to see Ohio State schedule a marquee non-conference series with either a Big East or SEC foe for CBS.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

scout.com$

7/10/05

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Another article about this ongoing saga......

[Oh8ch]

This one is remarkably curious. The possible scenarios I can put together are"

1. We are getting bad info about the presser. There is none. (Seems unlikely.)

2. We are getting bad info about the offer. Tucker has one and will commit to OSU on Monday. (Recent Macklin news makes this seem even less likely.)

3. Tucker is using the presser to apply pressure to Matta in hopes of having an offer by Monday. (Not a chance.)

4. Tucker is tired of waiting for the OSU offer and is commiting to another school. (Since there is no hurry this seems unlikely unless the other school is applying some pressure.)

4. Tucker has been told by Matta that he will not get an offer and is commiting to a different school. (The news about Macklin makes this seem more of a possibility.)

What other options am I missing?

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

I think thats about all of them....I guess we will find out on Monday.

[Oh8ch]

That's not good enough. I want to know NOW!!!!

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Andi it looks like I got what I wanted:

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...09/1004/SPORTS

Tucker is being recruited many Big Ten schools, including Indiana, Michigan State and Ohio State. The Gary West High School star favors the Buckeyes and sounded ready to commit earlier in the camp and join Lawrence North duo Greg Oden and Mike Conley in Columbus in 2006.

"I have to wait to find out what (Ohio State) is going to do," he said. "I'm going to call on Monday to find out if they're going to offer."

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

rivals.com$

7/11/05

According to Rivals.com......Matta has not officially given Tucker an offer. The story is that Tucker was told by the staff to call on Monday and they would make a final decision. Academics could be a factor here.

[OSU SPORTS]

http://www.post-trib.com/cgi-bin/pto...1_spor_04.html High school coach says no offer from OSU yet