Welcome Home to the 4 Star PG from North Carolina.
Congrats Eli Ellis on commitment to Carolina!!!
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One day my grandkids will ask me about the time we had a bball coach that recruited shooters.
This kid is from Hickory. Maybe he can duplicate the magic of Hickory's Jimmy Chitwood and take South Carolina back to the final four
Rated a 4 star by all the recruiting services. And ranked as the 57th best prospect in the nation by one service and 99th by another. And ranked by one service as the 9th-rated PG in the nation. Very good pick up.
From what I’ve gathered, can score from anywhere on the court. Plays with a ton of confidence.
Eli Ellis: Three Thoughts on the Latest South Carolina Commitment
On3's Jamie Shaw discusses his thoughts on four-star point guard Eli Ellis and his commitment to South Carolina.
And the kid has 1M social media followers. Caleb Williams has 361K. Dude is already a social media star.
No big deal…just the #1 class in the country (I know, I know)
Just curious why he didn't have any big-time offers. A comparably ranked football recruit would have had offers from all the big name programs. He's from North Carolina and didn't have an offer from any of the big NC schools.
lol, I assume you're being sarcastic. Buuuuuut, to be fair, out of the top 100 recruits, only about 5 have committed. Nobody in the top 20 has committed. All 5* recruits are uncommitted. The blue bloods haven't even gotten started yet.
Bball is different than football. The average class is 3-4 guys. We’re in a good position to be excited about him. Big time programs aren’t bc they might only have one spot for a G and they have better options.
It’s also why you don’t see a lot of flips in bball recruiting. Once a guy commits opposing coaches just move on. They don’t have time to waste trying to convince a guy to flip.
He doesn't have the blue-blood offers, but two offers stand out. College of Charleston and Virginia Tech. If he got offers from Pat Kelsey and Mike Young, it tells me that he is probably disciplined, will take care of the ball, and can shoot it. I see that Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and Texas A&M also offered.
Obviously, there's no way I can know the answer to your question. But here is what I do KNOW: When ALL FOUR recruiting services agree that this kid is a 4 star, we've got ourselves a PLAYER. Congratulations to Lamont and to us.
I just hope we can hang on to him now that he is emerging as a top flight player and the bigs realize their mistake when he is lighting up things for us.
That’s odd, seems if you were only recruiting 3-4 players you would have plenty of time to stay on a kid and flip him, but I hope you’re right!
With all those Gamecock pictures, I think he likes us.This kid is from Hickory. Maybe he can duplicate the magic of Hickory's Jimmy Chitwood and take South Carolina back to the final four
Is it finally becoming obvious to the doubters who smothered this site with negative comments last year about Paris that we have someone leading our mens basketball program who can do BOTH.....recruit AND coach.... and do it well?
I wasn't one of those doubters. Paris had me at hello.
Still a long way to go this year but I like the direction we are headed.
He may be our male version of Catlin Clark...Let's hope so. Catlin will go down as the greatest of all-time so lets hope Eli will go down as the greatest guard of all-time....