[olldflame]

McBride's HS team at Baptist Prep has won 3 straight state championships.
This year he made a 4 point play with less than a second left to win it by a point.

Some guy named Marcus White is one of their assistant coaches.

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/b9f5a8_1 ... a23f1b.pdf

[olldflame]

Lots of good stuff here.
Baptist Prep HC Brian Ross has left to accept the HC job at Little Rock Central. No idea whether Marcus would be in line for the job or not.

[olldflame]

After further research , not as interesting as I thought. The guy named Marcus White who is an assistant coach at Baptist Prep is not the same guy named Marcus White who played basketball for Liberty back in the 90s.

[Sly Fox]

A kid from Tomball! I don't remember him but I am sure I will see him play his season as my son't team plays Concordia Lutheran in summer ball and multiple times in the regular season. This is the town that has produced Jimmy Butler and Justin Jackson in recent years.

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[olldflame]

So, when a kid from TOMball comes to Liberty, what does he play?

[olldflame]

PG JC Tharrington, Blake Preston's teammate at Charlotte Christian who we had offered early and then backed off of, has committed to App State.

[olldflame]

Coach McKay's son Gabriel, who will be a Senior at LCA this year, has announced he will be joining the recruiting class of 2019 as a walk-on.

I don't think he was even a starter as a JR last year, so we're not talking about an impact player, but I think it's pretty cool.

Hoping we will hear soon that there will be another father/son-coach/player combination starting next year.

[ballcoach15]

I heard we had a recruit visiting campus this week from Kentucky. Has around 21 offers currently.

[Purple Haize]

I heard we had a recruit visiting campus this week from Kentucky. Has around 21 offers currently.

#sources

[Cider Jim]

I heard we had a recruit visiting campus this week from Kentucky. Has around 21 offers currently.

Ballcoach has the BEST sources!

[Purple Haize]

I heard we had a recruit visiting campus this week from Kentucky. Has around 21 offers currently.

Ballcoach has the BEST sources!

They certainly are the most entertaining

[olldflame]

That would almost certainly be Kyle Rode, a SF from Lexington.
http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/kyle-rode
While his VC profile shows 9 offers, they don´t always know about all of them.
This tweet from his HS coach confirms the number from ballcoach´s source. ( A saying about blind squirrels and acorns comes to mind)

[ballcoach15]

Ball coach doesn't divulge his sources, except on rare occasions. And never on recruiting, until LOI is signed.

[rogers3]

Ball coach doesn't divulge his sources, except on rare occasions. And never on recruiting, until LOI is signed.

rogers3 is glad to know that.

[Class of 20Something]

Can we all agree that Terry Crews character in Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the only person that can pull off talking in the third person?

[Purple Haize]

Can we all agree that Terry Crews character in Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the only person that can pull off talking in the third person?

Funny show

[thepostman]

Can we all agree that Terry Crews character in Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the only person that can pull off talking in the third person?

The Rock pulled it off pretty well too.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is one of the funniest shows on t.v.

[thepostman]

Ball coach doesn't divulge his sources, except on rare occasions. And never on recruiting, until LOI is signed.

Postman doesn't care.

[alabama24]

Bob Dole did it best.

[olldflame]

A few factoids about Kyle Rode. He is from Lexington, KY, but plays AAU ball for Indiana Elite. They are a top 10 program nationally, and he is their leading scorer. His HS team, Lexington Christian Academy (yes, they go by LCA) won a state championship last year. His 2 most recent offers are from Winthrop and W&M. Based on his own tweets and others commenting on him, he looks to be a perfect fit with the school and team culture.

Also, according to this report, he is now 6´7¨ and well over 200, which would enable him to play the PF in Ritchie´s system.

https://www.prephoops.com/2017/08/recru ... de-2019-2/

[olldflame]

Per this retweet on the Liberty MBB twitter, 2019 verbal commit Marten Maide is spending the summer back home in Estonia playing for their U18 national team.

[cruzan_flame13]

So is it official that Kyle Rodes will visit the school?

[olldflame]

This is one case where ballcoach´s source seems to have the ring of truth. Probably coming for camp.

[Cider Jim]

Ballcoach's source makes a living by giving tours of LU's campus.

[olldflame]

Ballcoach's source makes a living by giving tours of LU's campus.

He may or may not be the ¨guru¨ the old ballcoach makes him out to be, but you can´t deny he has ¨access¨. Definately an insider.