Post by MIKE MACALUSO on Sept 27, 2005 15:25:58 GMT -5
Sheehan coming to Tech
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Justin Young
JacketsOnline.com
Chalk another recruit up for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Paul Hewitt and Peter Zaharis met with Brad Sheehan on Monday night for an in-home visit and the 6-foot-10, 200-pound center from Shaker High School in Latham, N.Y., decided to give the ACC school a verbal commitment. JacketsOnline.com has the exclusive story. Come inside the Ultimate Ticket for the scoop.
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Brad Sheehan is coming to Atlanta.
Sheehan met with the Jackets coaches on Monday night and that is when he broke the good news to Hewitt and Zaharis. He was ready to be a Jacket.
"I realized that they have the best program, the best situation and the best coach out there," Sheehan said late Monday night. "I really loved it down there when I played with the players. It's a great situation."
Since Hewitt's days at Siena, Sheehan has had a chance to watch the coach's style of play and how he develops his big men. That was one of the reasons why Sheehan picked the Jackets, he said.
"I've never heard a bad word about him. He's just a great person and his players love playing for him," Sheehan said. "He gets his players to play well during their careers and beyond."
The Yellow Jackets won out over Virginia (where he visited last weekend), Syracuse and Penn State.
"It's a great school and the best combination of academics and athletics," Sheehan said of Georgia Tech. "Virginia is a good academic school but not as good athletically. Syracuse is up there athletically but not where Georgia Tech is academically. Penn State just isn't the same athletically. Georgia Tech was the best balance between of all of them."
While on his official visit to Tech, Sheehan had a chance to play alongside former Jacket center Luke Schenscher. They didn't have any deep conversations but their paths are somewhat similar.
"We didn't really talk too much but he did tell me that Georgia Tech is a great school and that Coach Hewitt helped develop him into the player he is today," Sheehan said. "We're similar and look where he is now. He just signed a contract in the NBA."
The Jackets landed a big man with good face up skills, a confident jumper out to 15 feet and a guy who's best basketball is still ahead of him. Still in need of more bulk and weight on his 6-foot-10 frame, he has the skills that coaches covet in big men.
In the classroom, Sheehan is a displaced student athlete that will have no problems in qualifying.
Now the Jackets are shifting their efforts to small forwards Thaddeus Young and Stanley Robinson, who have both made official visits to Georgia Tech, as well as California forward Alex Stepheson. The Jackets will visit wit
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Justin Young
JacketsOnline.com
Chalk another recruit up for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Paul Hewitt and Peter Zaharis met with Brad Sheehan on Monday night for an in-home visit and the 6-foot-10, 200-pound center from Shaker High School in Latham, N.Y., decided to give the ACC school a verbal commitment. JacketsOnline.com has the exclusive story. Come inside the Ultimate Ticket for the scoop.
Rivals.com
Brad Sheehan is coming to Atlanta.
Sheehan met with the Jackets coaches on Monday night and that is when he broke the good news to Hewitt and Zaharis. He was ready to be a Jacket.
"I realized that they have the best program, the best situation and the best coach out there," Sheehan said late Monday night. "I really loved it down there when I played with the players. It's a great situation."
Since Hewitt's days at Siena, Sheehan has had a chance to watch the coach's style of play and how he develops his big men. That was one of the reasons why Sheehan picked the Jackets, he said.
"I've never heard a bad word about him. He's just a great person and his players love playing for him," Sheehan said. "He gets his players to play well during their careers and beyond."
The Yellow Jackets won out over Virginia (where he visited last weekend), Syracuse and Penn State.
"It's a great school and the best combination of academics and athletics," Sheehan said of Georgia Tech. "Virginia is a good academic school but not as good athletically. Syracuse is up there athletically but not where Georgia Tech is academically. Penn State just isn't the same athletically. Georgia Tech was the best balance between of all of them."
While on his official visit to Tech, Sheehan had a chance to play alongside former Jacket center Luke Schenscher. They didn't have any deep conversations but their paths are somewhat similar.
"We didn't really talk too much but he did tell me that Georgia Tech is a great school and that Coach Hewitt helped develop him into the player he is today," Sheehan said. "We're similar and look where he is now. He just signed a contract in the NBA."
The Jackets landed a big man with good face up skills, a confident jumper out to 15 feet and a guy who's best basketball is still ahead of him. Still in need of more bulk and weight on his 6-foot-10 frame, he has the skills that coaches covet in big men.
In the classroom, Sheehan is a displaced student athlete that will have no problems in qualifying.
Now the Jackets are shifting their efforts to small forwards Thaddeus Young and Stanley Robinson, who have both made official visits to Georgia Tech, as well as California forward Alex Stepheson. The Jackets will visit wit
