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Danny Satan

Dec 08, 2008 Jul 10, 2010 1 2914

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Rock Chalk Talk Missouri's Top Recruit Faked High School


http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/recruit-college-career-shipwrecked-by-spellcheck-28454

 

I've never done a FanPost before, so bear with me here.  I thought this should definitely be noted, since the player in question (Tony Mitchell) was ranked by ESPN as the 24th-best high school player in the country.  

From what I can gather, he basically attended a "private school" in Miami during his junior year that is technically part of a home schooling association and not recognized by the Dallas school district that he transferred to for his senior year.  The Miami school is such a joke that even the school's official website had spelling errors everywhere and almost seemed made up.

Once the principal at the Texas school found that out, he had Mitchell take NINE COURSE FINALS over the course of just hours to make up for all the credits that didn't transfer... of course Mitchell passed every final, and voila, he was suddenly a high school senior and eligible to play hoops.

He looks like a pretty fluid athlete, (video below)

http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/recruiting/tracker/player?recruitId=73058&action=upsell&appRedirect=http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/recruiting/tracker/player%3frecruitId%3d73058

so this is a good thing for Jayhawks fans, since Missouri's recruiting class this year was ranked highly, and this was their top signee.

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