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According to Rivals, Ellis is a 6-7 small forward from Sacramento High in Sacramento, Calif. who shoots NBA three's "comfortably".

He has offers from Baylor, SMU, Bradley, UC-Davis, Portland St., Montana St., and Nebraska and significant interest from Arizona St.

Ellis, the No. 7 rated player in Northern California by NorCalPreps.com, plans to visit SMU, but did indicates Baylor is the team to beat. He is visiting them next Wednesday, and then SMU on the weekend. This is bad because he might commit to Baylor before ever seeing SMU. Hopefully, he will wait until after his SMU visit before making a decision!

If he commits to Baylor without visiting SMU first, he'll do himself an injustice with which he will have to deal for four years. Visit both schools, and he'll certainly be a Mustang.

I assume he is making 1 trip to Texas, visiting Baylor then SMU. If he already has the trip planned I doubt he would cancel the latter half- especially with the chance to visit Dallas and meet with Doherty.

By the way, is there any decent basketball recruit NOT heavily considering Baylor?

Baylor does a good job. Drew is a very hard worker and it appears that recruits like his pitch. Baylor also has excellent facilities and he really sells the Big 12. My guess is Drew is looking for that one big year so he can get out of Waco and coach in the Big 10 and return to his Midwest roots.

If Drew ever has a season in his career were he goes over .500, basketball may never be the same.

Ellis commited to Baylor according to rivals. What the heck is going on? A California kid actually wants to play in Waco? Offerings must be up in the baptist church these days.

Baylor led on this guy the whole way. And you are right about them passing the plate! A lot of stuff is STILL going on down there.

Does Drew have pictures of the AAU coaches or what? This guy sounds like he could probably make a great living selling cemetary plots. How he gets great players to go to Waco and Baylor strikes me as one of the most amazing feats of all time.

Regional digest: Sac High basketball player commits

Last Updated 12:01 am PDT Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Sacramento High School basketball player Fred Ellis, a 6-foot-7, 210-pound senior forward, has verbally committed to Baylor.

Ellis averaged 7.8 points and 5.1 rebounds last season for the 29-6 Dragons, Sac-Joaquin Section and CIF NorCal Division III runners-up to St. Mary's of Stockton.

"Fred is going to be one of our impact players," said Sac High coach Derek Swafford, who confirmed Ellis' decision. "He should be one of the top three players in the area this year. He's a very good kid and a good student with a 3.5 grade-point average."

Swafford said about 30 college programs were recruiting Ellis.

http://www.sacbee.com/100/story/41303.html

Former SMU TE Derek SwOfford is not a basketball coach.

Guys, guys, guys...

Seriously, why the need to blame it on money passing hands? If there is a program under more NCAA scrutiny than Baylor basketball, I'd like to see it.

Drew runs a 100% clean program and the only people who think otherwise are internet hacks that have no connection to the athletic departments.

Baylor just built a $15M practice facility and have renovated the lockerrooms to be the nicest in the nation. Plus, we've had three consecutive Top 20 recruiting classes and Ellis is joining the #33 player in the nation ( the second top player from Louisiana Baylor has signed) for this class.

Ellis will help fill a huge hole at the wing position and get to play early on a team that is a good wing player away from the NCAA tournament (and might not even be that far away).

goponies1 wrote:Baylor led on this guy the whole way. And you are right about them passing the plate! A lot of stuff is STILL going on down there.

STFU,There is NOTHING going on in Waco. We play in the Big XII and just opened up a multi-million dollar practice facility. I'm sorry to break it too you but kids don't want to play in Moody or the C-USA. I'm a big SMU fan, but I get tired of all this crap that youknow nothing about.

STFU,There is NOTHING going on in Dallas. We play in the SWC and in Texas Stadium. I'm sorry to break it too you but kids don't want to play in Floyd Casey or Waco. I'm a big other Baylor fan, but I get tired of all this crap that youknow nothing about.

You do have to admit that it is slightly odd that Baylor bball recruiting suddenly jumped so many levels w/o doing anything that most other schools are doing (except SMU). I can understand the enthusiasim a new coach can bring in for the first few years, but the sustainability has me perplexed.

couch 'em wrote:STFU,There is NOTHING going on in Dallas. We play in the SWC and in Texas Stadium. I'm sorry to break it too you but kids don't want to play in Floyd Casey or Waco. I'm a big other Baylor fan, but I get tired of all this crap that youknow nothing about.

Kids wanna play for Scott Drew and the wanna play in the Big XII. I hate how when Baylor does better than you in something you automatically assume foul play. Baylor has given these kids a chance to play right away in a power conference. Waco has everything a college kid wants, A town of 200,000 with some good restuarnats, good party scene just across the street from campus, a local media that cares about the team.