[Sly Fox]

2012 Kansas Verbal Commit Zach Peters goes to the school at Jack Graham's church in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. Here is the part that caught my eye ...

Early national recognition

Peters showed an interest in playing basketball at a young age. Kindergarten, actually.

It’s just that back then, he was a work in progress.

“I was terrible. I was afraid of the ball. I’m not even kidding,” Peters said, laughing. “You would have never thought I was going to be good at basketball until around sixth or seventh grade when I really started getting into it.”

Toward the end of elementary school, Peters was playing basketball nearly every day. Who could blame him? His dad installed an outdoor full court at the Peters residence. Not a bad deal.

“He’s obsessed with basketball,” Zach said of his dad, Tim. “That’s all I did, was play basketball.”

Peters received his first college offer in the form of a letter in the mail in the sixth grade.

“It was Liberty College,” Peters said. “I scored, like, 45 points in a game. They saw me play.”

Before Peters even arrived in high school, he was receiving national recognition. Hoop Scoop Inc., a Louisville-based recruiting service, ranked Peters the No. 1 eighth-grader in the country in 2008.

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[Cider Jim]

Trying to do the math...would have have been a letter from RD?

[Sly Fox]

I believe so. Obviously Coach D and his staff had an eye for talent in this instance.

[LUconn]

They must have really left an impression on him, with him remembering the correct name of the school and all.

[Cider Jim]

And RD loved recruiting the country of--I mean the state of--TEXAS.

[Sly Fox]

And he did so for good reason.

[LUnpretty11]

Doesn't that violate some NCAA rules? Contacting a 6th grader about playing ball....

[Sly Fox]

Back then it did not.