Recruiting Updates

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>PICTURED: [player_tooltip player_id='1338482' first='Jackson' last='Ary']</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>[player_tooltip player_id='1338482' first='Jackson' last='Ary']</strong>, of Bradley Central High School, took an official visit to Tusculum University. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>[player_tooltip player_id='1140784' first='Kyle' last='Cloninger']</strong> (Morristown East) verbally commits to Maryville College. King University also offered him a scholarship.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:embed {"url":"https://twitter.com/MasonBrown05/status/1770565593290186899?s=20","type":"rich","providerNameSlug":"twitter","responsive":true} --> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://twitter.com/MasonBrown05/status/1770565593290186899?s=20 </div></figure> <!-- /wp:embed --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>[player_tooltip player_id='1140737' first='Taveon' last='Comage']</strong> (Webb-Bell Buckle) adds an offer from Bryan College. Comage also maintains offers from Cumberland and Columbia State Community College.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The best unsigned player in Tennessee, State Champion<strong> [player_tooltip player_id='1135401' first='Tyler' last='Lee']</strong> (Fulton) earned an offer from the University of Central Arkansas. Interestingly, Lee was a verbal commit to UAH Head Coach John Shulman. Lee decommitted along the way. Coach Shulman took a new job last week...Central Arkansas and quickly offered Lee a scholarship. Mr. Basketball Lee also has offers from Motlow State, Columbia State, and Tusculum University. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>[player_tooltip player_id='1677082' first='Mason' last='Brown']</strong> (Central Magnet) verbally commits to Trevecca Nazarene. He joins a class of [player_tooltip player_id='1336420' first='Fred' last='Bailey'] (Pope Prep), [player_tooltip player_id='1121408' first='Jaden' last='Clark'] (Nolensville), and [player_tooltip player_id='1336410' first='Brett' last='Wright'] (Silverdale Baptist).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:embed {"url":"https://twitter.com/AndrewForce8/status/1770930746229670125?s=20","type":"rich","providerNameSlug":"twitter","responsive":true} --> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://twitter.com/AndrewForce8/status/1770930746229670125?s=20 </div></figure> <!-- /wp:embed --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Belhaven University offered <strong>[player_tooltip player_id='1215120' first='Murray' last='Norman'] </strong>(Munford HS, TN). Other offers on the table for Norman include: Bryan, Southwest Tennessee CC, Rhodes, and Jackson State CC. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>[player_tooltip player_id='1318557' first='Tylan' last='Lewis'] </strong>(Independence), a State Champion, earned an offer from Tennessee State University.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Coaching Carousel Impact</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The #1, #2, #13, #23 players in 2024 will not play for the coach they initially signed up to play with. [player_tooltip player_id='1145719' first='Tyler' last='Tanner'] (#1) remains signed to Vanderbilt, but Coach Jerry Stackhouse was fired. [player_tooltip player_id='1213161' first='Julius' last='Thedford'] picked Missouri State University and Dana Ford, former Tennessee State University front man, but Coach Ford just lost his job. Thedford is getting feelers.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->