Georgia’s No. 1 point guard transfers to Milton High School
Milton High School has played for three straight state championships in basketball, winning in 2010.
They will be a top contender for a fourth consecutive appearance after the No. 1 point guard in Georgia transferred to Milton.
Charles Mann, who has been one of the state’s hottest college basketball prospects since UConn offered in late April, has switched from Union Grove to Milton for his senior year of basketball. Mann has nearly 20 offers, including Georgia Tech and UGA.
The 6-foot-5, 193-pound Mann will give Milton the state’s top outside perimeter, also featuring swingman Evan Nolte (committed to Virginia) and dunk artist Shaq Johnson (committed to Auburn).
Mann discussed the move with the Clayton News Daily’s Derrick Mahone:
“I’m just ignoring all that negative stuff and concentrating on playing basketball,” Mann said via cellphone Tuesday afternoon.
That’s good.
As the saying goes, haters will hate.
Mann says the move was job related. In my opinion, he owes no one any explanation.
It seems a good move that one of the top rising players will now get to play for a potentially nationally-ranked caliber program that will play a national schedule.
The scholarship offers are there and will continue to be whether he transferred or not. Now, he gets to play with a contender his senior season.
Thoughts? Is Milton now the team to beat for the state championship?
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Milton has better AP math scores
July 2nd, 2011
6:26 pm
Greatest upset ever? LOL Bolden committed to Miami; Odada to Richmond; Josiah to Nebraska; Nickerson to Charlotte; big boy Crooms off the bench is D I in two sports; Herbert is a college prospect; you lost 10 games last year; how’d that happen? Milton was favored no doubt but Norcross was loaded for bear. Let’s see whathappens this year math major. i thought yall were the team of the decade. lol Let’s see; 1,2, 3, 4 is more than 3! u can do it. nice and slow now; by the way milton may not be aaaaa champs in ga but they r state champs in fla; beat Winter park twice; aa in ga killed gac, and beat norfolk christian virginia state champs and beat oak hill. and it’s still 3-1 milton over da cross. keep em coming team of the decade.
Three Straight + One
July 2nd, 2011
6:34 pm
Come on M Daddy tell the truth….you had already counted that one didn’t ya?
Three Straight + One
July 2nd, 2011
6:47 pm
Milton 3rd in the country talking in the paper about their chances to be number one and then Norcross who had lost 10 games and was not even ranked in the top 10 in the state took Milton’s 5 D1s down.
No the referees did not come to Milton’s rescue this time. You know I kept hearing before the game that Milton fans, player’s parents and even coach Boyd stated they did not want play Norcross. They were right and smarter than I thought!
Milton has better AP math scores
July 2nd, 2011
8:57 pm
How do u explain those 10 losses with your 6 D I’s? and milton is 176th academically in the usa; where is norcross? but i’ll give u this; your fans made a huge difference in that game; huge.
coach
July 2nd, 2011
9:02 pm
Hey Three in a row + one…
You forgot the most important statistic about all of Norcross ***ACCOMPLISHMENTS***
Find more than one contributor to all thatsuccess that wasn’t an AAU related transfer.
Emerson–Camden
Gani–Riverdale
Aminu–Wesleyan and Stephenson (for one day)
Tariq–Centennial
Demercy–GAC
Meeks–Roswell
Neysmith–SCarolina (Dads AAU connection)
Killian–Dacula
Hubbard–Peachtree Ridge
Ariel Jones–Duluth
AJ Hawkins–Northview
Lamb and Lamb–Marietta Area
Josiah–Collins Hill
EVictor–Paidea
Bolden–Brookwood
Alonso–Winder Barrow
Booker–Alabama
How many accomplishmnts would your program have without “grey areas” in the rules? Should you be proud of “your school” when “your school” actually produces so little?
Devil Lover
July 2nd, 2011
9:59 pm
Hey MD, was it your team that lost the game or was it your coach? It was hard to tell where I was sitting.
Team of the Decade
July 2nd, 2011
10:12 pm
Hey daddy, getting to the final game is not the objective. One out of three is really weak.
Two McDonald All Americans
July 2nd, 2011
10:20 pm
Hey milton daddy, Norcross has produced six professional players and Lamb will go after next season. Tell me how many professional players has milton produced?
MD speak up….I can’t hear you!!!!
mike
July 3rd, 2011
6:56 pm
Norcross “Produced” them? PLEASE. Those kids were going to the league before the decision to move was ever made. Norcross used those guys so that guys like you can get your rocks off on message boards.
Gwinnett BB Fan
July 3rd, 2011
11:20 pm
Hey, just another day on the Blog…. Heard Collins Hill and The Ridge picked up some transfers? anybody hear that?
columbia hs track star
July 4th, 2011
8:15 pm
ok i can understand transfering but transfering from union grove which is in henry county to milton. That is a 1 hour and 7 min drive 52.31 miles. Theres no way everything in that picture is right. And the players that go to columbia are all actually in the district. There arent any transfers. And for the person who spoke on jordan price the reason he left is because his loaylty to addidas. because columbia is a all nike school
Three Straight Plus One
July 4th, 2011
8:16 pm
mike you obviously don’t fully understand basketball or you would understand it take a good program to fully develop a team of individual players. Norcross normally does not have the best players on the court but they have won 89% of their games over the last 10 yrs.
Jeremy Lamb came off the bent in his junior year at Norcross. JL has developed playing on two very good programs.
basketball fan
July 4th, 2011
8:38 pm
Great decision kid. Going to Milton is only gone increase his chance of going on and playing for a big time college. Schools like Milton, Wheeler, and Norcross don’t recruit. As a parent why wouldn’t you want your kid to be at one of these schools? At the end of the day it’s about the kids we fail to realize that some times.
coach
July 4th, 2011
8:58 pm
basketball fan that is the lamest thing I’ve ever heard. HE ALREADY HAS OFFERS. Everyone knows who he is. But we will be reading next year that he is a Milton product….
a real coach
July 5th, 2011
6:51 am
yes but he will get better offers!
black1
July 5th, 2011
10:59 am
Honestly never heard of the kid. And to say schools dont recruit is crazy. Of course they recruit. All the schools that are winning championships or going to finals recruit. Yes even the girls program. Thats how coaches are getting the edge. year long practice and recruiting. Private schools and all classifications recruit. So I am thru with the subject because GHSA will never have the balls to do anything!!! Real coaches will coach their players at the school. So enough about what Vick did, Bonds, and Cam, or any other African American athlete because wrong is wrong no matter what race, sport, etc…. You just havent been caught yet!!!
Coach Who Knows
July 5th, 2011
11:02 am
If these schools and basketball program are so great, i.e Milton, Norcross, Wheeler, are so greater, then why don’t develop their on players from their feeder schools and not go after good players from other schools! Tony Parker wasn’t a transfer, he entered m.g. In the 9th grade. Jordan Price home school is SWD, he attended the feeder school! At least in Columbia, M.G, SWD, case all their players played bball in one of the middle schools in Dekalb!
SportsFan
July 5th, 2011
12:53 pm
For those of you who don’t know…. Union Grove does not have a basketball program nor are they committed to developing a program. Looking at their team for next year they have 3 bench players returning that probably could not start for the worst team in the state. There was some young talent that could have been developed but they are not interested in winning. Therefore, why should a kid have to commit his talents to a program that’s not interested in making him better? He’s THE TOP POINT GUARD in the state. If he had of stayed at Union Grove they would have had him playing center. Whatever the circumstances regarding his decision he definitely made the right one.
Don’t hate on schools with good programs and competent coaches. They don’t have to recruit, kids will come to them….!
Dr Richard Handler MD
July 5th, 2011
8:33 pm
Let’s make the private schools play up a class because they recruit!!! But schools like Milton, Norcross and Dunwoody all make the SMU football program that was given the death penalty like a clean program. Yeah all those private schools recruit, that’s why all the Division I schools fill their rosters with players from Westminster, Lovett, Marist and St Pius. NOT!!!
swampjacket
July 6th, 2011
12:57 am
Basketball’s for little B*#@hes anyway!! The real Ballers are football players anyway! MG, SWD, etc. have real athletic programs good in multiple sports….Milton has cross-country and a B-ball team that’s been good for a couple of years because of a corrupt program…where’s Milton in Football, Track, etc…you know men’s games!!
top gun
July 6th, 2011
5:00 pm
Norcross has kid coming & wheeler is loaded this year will be better than last
Theajcsucksmiltonsdick
July 11th, 2011
10:42 am
Why do you love milton so much? they couldnt win the state championship with 5 all americans..they must have a good coach..right?
Truth
July 11th, 2011
6:09 pm
I was just thinking, what happens to all those boys on Milton that thought they where getting their shot to play after Milton’s big four left. Parents of those kids please share your thoughts. It’s got to feel bad to know the coach never cared about those players from day one.
tar and feathers party
July 11th, 2011
9:25 pm
Ah just luv it, if ya don’t like the local yokel high school coach, just vote with your feet and transfer to another school! Power to the players, down with the piss ant coaches!
columbia high track star
July 13th, 2011
6:57 am
i can understand him transfering to henry co high,stockbridge,or eagles landing because these are all close but all the way to milton when his siblings are still goin to henry co school something isnt rite…but i bet they got him an appartment out there and he come home on the weekends
BBall Junkie
July 13th, 2011
9:10 am
@Columbia…. No he did the right thing by transferring out of the Henry County School System. Union Grove is like the whinny privileged kid of all the schools. They would have complained to the Board of Education accusing the other schools of recruiting their player, instead of looking within their system and correcting the problems in their athletic department. As a freshman the kid was probably the best basketball player in the school and…. GUESS WHAT? They had him playing on the freshman basketball team the entire season. Don’t judge the kid by the decision he made, give him credit for staying in that program for three years. There’s always more to the story!
Lets speak truth
July 13th, 2011
10:17 am
@Milton Dad and got Milton dad back lets keep your last championship in perspective if Marcus thornton for Westlake doesn’t get injured ya’ll go home emptied handed. If he Jelan kendrick Episode at wheeler hasn’t taught you anything it takes a team. I don’t have a dog in the fight so I just want to see a good tournament and may the best win.
Tired of hearing about David Boyd
July 14th, 2011
7:58 am
Big David Boyd is at it again, sounds like he is off and running on another successful recruiting/cheating summer.. What a disrace to high school athletics and to Milton High School. This egotistical jerk is a cheater, period. Can’t win with players in his district so he goes out and recruits and cheats so he can win. Seven D1 players last year and he can’t win a state championship. Maybe Big David can go out this summer and get eight D1 players and win a title. And if you don’t think this egotistical jerk is not hung up on himself, call Milton High and listen to his voicemail.. all about Big David. Hey Big David, prove you can coach with your own players, not the best talent in the state.
Parker
July 16th, 2011
12:20 am
The GHSA is a joke this type of thing is out of control.Buford, flowery Branch,the Metro Atlanta Schools are just AAU teams. What are we teaching the kids. Wake up HS administrators when are you gonna live what you preach! County Schools should sue the GHSA or start there own organization.
Hold your horses
July 17th, 2011
7:55 pm
The Wheeler coach has plenty up his sleeve as well
miltoneagles
July 18th, 2011
3:25 am
First off to UG wolverine that is very hard to believe mann has nothing but respect for ever coach he had and for you to sit there to just assasinate his character tells us a lot about you. Furthermore do any of you know the circumstances of being a wolverine basketball player? No player has been yet to sign to a decent college. The focus at union grove is football and last season mann & few other players carried union grove to first round play offs in school history. Three of the starting 5 were seniors & a sophomore left which mean mann left again to carry the team. The transfer was maybe about the challenge and competition to get him ready for an elite level not for fame he got that at UGHS already.To those who assume that he wanted it just for the ring I would happy to see your face thatvmilton will make it & he made a great decision for his future.
UG Wolverine
July 20th, 2011
9:31 pm
SportsFanand Miltoneagle-what about Isaiah signing with Ole Miss? SEC not big enough for you? Keep making excuses about the coaches that you evidently could not support.
SportsFan
July 22nd, 2011
4:14 am
I know how Isaiah got to Ole Miss…. He did not go to Ole Miss out of high school. Union Grove coaching staff had absolutely nothing to do with getting him there. Support them!? Funny….
NY BBALL is still the best
July 23rd, 2011
10:28 am
Just so everyone knows… Recruiting players occurs everywhere. Right or wrong any state you go to you will find teams that recruit players all over the place. High School Athletic Associations are becoming more like the NCAA. They dont care that kids transfer illegally as long as they are making some money! The fact is simple certain teams will always be at the top because of the money they offer and the recruiting they do.
RoswellHornets
July 27th, 2011
3:29 pm
Nolte and Shaq Johnson grew up playing rec ball / Middle school ball in Milton District.
Roswell will beat Milton in Football, greatest rivalry in the state.
Outside Observer
July 30th, 2011
8:18 pm
Mann’s father is a truck driver. How do you relocate for work when you are a truck driver???? Siblings still enrolled in Henry County Schools.
Hello, GHSA???????
UGA basketball
July 31st, 2011
7:42 pm
@RoswellHornets no they didn’t Shaq came from rockdale county he never went to middle school in milton
Basketball Fan
August 2nd, 2011
12:45 pm
Shaq did not play middle school basketball in Milton, he played at Davis Middle School in Rockdale County.