Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Syracuse offers Kentrell Brothers

The Syracuse Orange have extended a football scholarship offer to Guthrie's Kentrell Brothers. Brothers has picked up other offers from Missouri, Duke, and Kansas State.

Brothers has attended both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State's junior days, but has yet to receive an offer from an in state team.

Last season for the Jays, Brothers earned second team All-State and All-Big City honors with 95 tackles, 17 sacks, four interceptions, and a fumble recovery. On offense he had 62 catches for 1,122 yards, 12 touchdowns, and became Guthrie's first ever 1,000 yard receiver in one season.

Brothers is expected to leave Guthrie with the most yards receiving in a career, but is being thought of as an outside linebacker on the next level.

Breaking down the Class 5A Boys West regionals

The four regionals on the East side of the state for the Class 5A boys appear to be almost too predictable. Claremore, the host team, appears to be the only team to pull off an "upset" over Booker T. East Central, Edison, and Memorial should roll and make for an interesting day on Friday, March 5th, in the area tournament.

The Zebras have an outstanding record (20-1), but the quality of schedule is no where near Booker T. Claremore's best win came against then 11th ranked Bishop Kelley and their only loss came to Choctaw.

For the West its a little more complicated to sort through. There should be two great regional opening games with Lawton Mac and Deer Creek in the Ardmore Regional along with Southeast and Northwest Classen in the Guthrie Regional.

The Mac/Deer Creek winner will have a shot at the Ardmore Tigers for the regional championship. The Highlanders have split with Ardmore already this season and the Highlanders are hard to handle in their 1-3-1 zone defense (something Deer Creek may have trouble with). Ardmore has lost four of their last six games, but has been a team that has proven to win in the post season.

Southeast and Northwest Classen had a battle earlier this year with NW winning in overtime. Each team has dropped regular season games this season with Guthrie. However, the Jays are not as dominated as years past and can not assume a win from this point on after their game with Noble.

Day two will be interesting in the Western Heights Regional as the Jets and Capitol Hill should match up. Western Heights has already taken down Capitol Hill on a neutral floor (46-37). The Jets should play three games and make a rare trip to the State Tournament.

The most intriguing regional by far is the El Reno regional. Three of the four teams play in the Suburban Conference with El Reno, Carl Albert, and Chickasha. El Reno should have a pretty easy time with Ada before meeting up with Carl Albert, but Chickasha may be a little stubborn to go away too easy.

The Titans took down El Reno on Senior Night, in Midwest City, last week (68-62). Carl Albert has won six of their last seven games while El Reno has dropped three of their last five. I believe, the Titans sneak out of Canadian County with a regional championship trophy.

The area tournament may feature a Carl Albert/El Reno show down with Guthrie for an early ticket to State. The Suburban Conference could, once again, put four teams back into the state tournament and I believe it will happen with Western Heights, Guthrie, Carl Albert, and El Reno.
If not all four Suburban Conference teams punch their ticket then Northwest Classen, Capitol Hill, or Lawton Mac have put a nice string of wins to get in.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Sportcenter gets prank call on the air

Scott Van Pelt and ESPN's Sportscenter received a prank call "live" during an interview of who they thought was Brian Westbrook, who was released by the Philadelphia Eagles earlier in the day.


Monday, February 22, 2010

Oklahoma State football recruiting confusing

So Mustang's David Glidden is offered by Oklahoma State football on OSU's junior day and Guthrie grad 2009 grad Donte' Foster does not get a scholly offer?

Foster a high school stand-out, who did nothing but win and excel in whatever sport he participated in, did not handle the "football" recruiting aspect of things as well as perhaps he could have, but not sure what else the Cowboy coaches would want to see?

Kentrell Brothers attends the same Junior Day as Glidden and can not even get a sit down meeting with head coach Mike Gundy?

By no means am I taking anything away from the 5'8 158 senior to be, but some things just don't make any sense to me sometimes in the recruiting world.

Brothers has been offered by Missouri, Duke, and Kansas State already, but yet can not have a sit down meeting with Gundy. Yes, Brothers is just a junior and will continue to get big time offers from big time schools. Just wish the school 30 minutes away would be one of those to do it.

Brothers had a sit down with Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops during OU's junior day, and it is believed Stoops took time out to watch the Guthrie play maker play basketball. Something Stoops likes to do when it comes to recruiting.

Oklahoma State's sideline reporter and recruiting guru Robert Allen said, "you could easily see him in Oklahoma State's defense as a "star" linebacker with his speed and ability to make plays sideline to sideline."

I understand that Gundy and all major college football coaches get these type of blogs about this kid and that kid not getting recognized, but surely this one is different?

A top 10 kid in this state may have to go play down the road, or up the road with his friends instead of his own back yard. However, there is still plenty of time for the Cowboys to come around. It should only take a 1/8 of a tank of gasoline to get here, or a .43 cent stamp.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Suburban Conference Post Season Awards

The Suburban Conference basketball season has proven to be one of the best, once again, this season and will have plenty of opportunities to land more teams into this season's state tournament for both the boys and girls.

Getting to call the Guthrie basketball games on the radio has given me an opportunity to watch all these teams play and have also gotten to watch these student athletes play for multiple years. Every year you can predict a few things that are going to happen, but what makes it fun is the surprises they come out of the season. For an example: the Western Heights boys team.

I have compiled my post season awards. Yes, they will be different from the coaches because my awards consider not only seniors, but all classifications.

Boys First Team Selections

G Dustin Giles - Western Heights
G Kentrell Brothers - Guthrie
G Devante Moore - El Reno
F Larry Cunningham - Carl Albert
F Devin Aughenbaugh - Western Heights

Boys Second Team Selections

G Chris Mustain - El Reno
G Alton Whittaker - Western Heights
G Garrett Hermanski - Deer Creek
F JT Realmuto - Carl Albert
F Devon Hall - Guthrie

Player of the Year - Devin Aughenbaugh
Most Valuable Player - Devante Moore
Coach of the Year - Tyrone Nash - Western Heights

Girls First Team Selections

G Chelsea Robinson - Harrah
G Jessica Hobbs - Harrah
G Desiree Bradley - Carl Albert
G Kelsee Grovey - Shawnee
F Kylie Mayes - Carl Albert

Girls Second Team Selections

G Kalie Lucas - Harrah
G Kylie Boggess - Piedmont
G Charrisa Jones - El Reno
F Vivan Burns - Piedmont
F Jalyn Jackson - Deer Creek

Player of the Year - Desiree Bradley
Most Valuable Player - Kelsee Grovey
Coach of the Year - Curt Knox - Harrah

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Class 5A Boys Power Rankings (02-02-2010)

This is the last week where wins and losses will be calculated for the post season seeding for Class 6A and 5A. Here are my Class 5A Power Rankings as we play out the final week.

1. T. Memorial - big game with East Central Friday
2. T. Edison - drops one spot with loss to McLain
3. T. East Central - quality wins could get bigger with win over Memorial
4. Western Heights - keeps winning in the toughest 5A conference
5. T. Washington - have lost majority of the bigger games
6. El Reno - not a fancy resume, but good team with win over Guthrie
7. Guthrie - up and down season with good wins, but what team will show up
8. Ardmore - continue to be among the best in 5A, but wanting to get over the hump
9. Claremore - 12-1 record, but not sure how they would play against the elite
10. Northwest Classen - trying to sneak wins and sneaking to host a regional

Bubble: Carl Albert