The fringes of the recruiting game

[Skatastrophy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/sports/ncaabasketball/30recruit.html?_r=2&ref=sports&pagewanted=all

Central Florida's baffling success with grabbing high-level recruits was pretty fishy.  Looking into it exposes the seedy underbelly of recruiting.

[NCMUFan]

Someone is always on the fringe.  Caldwell appears to be one of those persons.  As he said, this won't change him one iota.

[Earl Tatum]

Hey, Kevin Ware (5-star) is available again. Don't know the reason. Trevor Lacey hasn't signed with anyone and Chris Bryant is available. Don't know if it's academics. Does anyone have any
info. Would like Ware if everything is square.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Six players on the current UCF roster hail from greater Chicago -- Caldwell's home area. That includes three --A.J. Rompza, Marcus Jordan (Michael Jordan's son) and Dwight McCombs -- who played for Whitney Young High School. Whitney Young coach Tyrone Slaughter is the director of Ferrari Youth Basketball, for which Caldwell once served as an assistant coach. Caldwell said he considers Rompza almost a member of the family, and said he helped get previous UCF coach Kirk Speraw interested in recruiting the guard -- and that, in turn, opened the Chicago-to-Orlando pipeline.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=6453617

Ken Caldwell has had a sidekick in recent months -- former Louisville basketball player Brandon Bender.

The 6-foot-10 Bender, who left the Cardinals as a freshman in 2002 under acrimonious circumstances, transferred to NAIA Robert Morris College in Chicago. He went pro early from there, signing with agent Mike Naiditch. Multiple sources say Bender has worked with Naiditch over the years, trying to secure clients, but Bender has denied it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6453773

Where have we heard of these connections before?
http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=21723.msg237208#msg237208

[ChicosBailBonds]

UCF is considered one of the potential new candidates for the Big East