John A. Logan C.C. guard, and NJCAA Participant of the Yr, Sean East II narrowed his listing of Division I faculties to 6 on Friday and South Florida made the lower. Becoming a member of the Bulls had been BYU, Clemson, Kentucky, Missouri and Oregon.
East, who performed two seasons of NCAA Division I basketball (one every at UMass and Bradley), averaged 20.9 factors, 4.3 rebounds, and 5.7 assists this season for Logan. East recorded three double-doubles and scored 20-plus factors in 13 video games and scored 30-plus factors in six video games this season. Throughout John A. Logan’s lone recreation on the Nationwide event, East scored a season-high 43 factors.
East’s profitable season additionally earned him NJCAA First Group All-America recognition.
BullsInsider.com reached out to East forward of his April 8-10 official go to to USF to get his pre-visit ideas. Nevertheless, after we caught as much as East, he about to board a flight to Philadelphia, PA to go to his sister.
So we spoke with the excessive scoring guard’s father, Sean East I, to be taught extra about his son’s recruitment.
BI: Who all can be coming with Sean to Tampa?
It is going to be his mother, myself and him.
BI: What sort of relationship do you and your son have with Brian Gregory and his teaching employees?
He’s talked extensively with Coach [Gregory]. Additionally, coach Dixon as it has been involved with him an entire lot. They got here to a few video games. Additionally, coach Gregory, you realize, final week he flew in to St. Louis and drove to see Sean after which took about one other three hour hike to see us. So, that meant one thing. That actually tell us that he is a precedence for South Florida.
BI: When did they first get entangled with Sean?
Oh, it was final yr truly, you realize, when he was at Bradley. However he did not need to sit out. So, as an alternative of chancing the waiver would not undergo, Sean got here to me and stated, ‘I’m gonna go to Logan. I’ve been talking to the Logan coach, and he’s gonna let me play how I want to play, the style I want to play within the team concept. He’s gonna put some put some more muscle on me and we’re going to have a good season.’ I hadn’t been speaking to him about Junior Faculty and he got here out of the blue and stated it. However when he decides, he offers me the reasoning behind it to let me know he has put some thought into it. So, as soon as he instructed me that, I type of checked out him, however I used to be like, okay you have already got a plan. He confirmed me the objectives and for essentially the most half, outdoors of successful the championship, he is executed every part that he got down to do.
BI: What has their foremost recruiting message been to you and your son?
They’re making it a precedence to let him know that the pinnacle coach/level guard relationship can be completely totally different than what he skilled at his first two Division I stops. I’s a household ambiance, and so they’re making an attempt to do one thing to vary this system to get them excessive. And he can be a giant a part of that.
BI: Sean has already visited BYU and Missouri, he’ll have USF this coming weekend. What different visits have been scheduled?
I feel he stated in order that Clemson and Oregon was going to attempt to set one thing up. I haven’t talked to him about that. He hasn’t instructed me to take off work or something but. He is in Philly now and he’ll fly from Philly to Tampa and we’ll meet him there on Friday.
BI: That leaves Kentucky.
He is been to the Kentucky campus, you realize, on quite a few events simply because he used to go to Calipari’s camp as a child. So, for 2 weeks he can be there. He’s been on that campus loads. So, if something it will likely be an unofficial.
BI: Has your son indicated a choice timeline to you?
Some time again, he instructed me he wished he wished to make the choice earlier than the top of April. That was about it. For some time he took a break [from recruiting] after they had been making ready for a late season event and going to Hutch. He type of simply, you realize, did not discuss recruiting. So, now afterwards it has been like, bam, bam, bam, after which the lifeless interval was there for a second. Now he’s simply fielding calls, figuring out and fielding calls. He hadn’t seen his sister in endlessly so he requested if he may go see her. So, he is enthusiastic about that.
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