Tech recruit Tobias Harris to reveal choice at 6 p.m.
Tobias Harris, the highly-touted forward from New York who is considering Georgia Tech among his finalists, will announce his college decision on live television today at 6 p.m.
Harris, a 6-foot-8, 220-pound high school senior, signed a scholarship with either Tech, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Syracuse or West Virginia yesterday, the last day of the early signing period. But Harris will keep that a secret until this evening when he unveils it at the ESPN Zone in Manhattan’s Times Square.
Harris attends Half Hollow Hills West High in Glen Head, N.Y. Rivals.com rates him the No. 1 player at his position and the No. 5 prospect overall.
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Paddy
November 19th, 2009
3:05 pm
hope i am not first
Paddy
November 19th, 2009
3:06 pm
damn
Tom
November 19th, 2009
3:26 pm
Tennessee
KevinM
November 19th, 2009
3:38 pm
I agree, UT is probably the choice, but I will hold out some hope for my Cats.
He really turned up his potential this summer and will be a good addition to any school’s rotation.
NickZ
November 19th, 2009
3:40 pm
UGA…sleeper pick
Statue for CPJ
November 19th, 2009
3:43 pm
He’ll go Maryland. Closer to home and a more stable coaching situation. Did y’all see Dayton beat tech in the first round today? We’ll know if Hewitt will be around next year in a month.
Joshua
November 19th, 2009
3:43 pm
He goes to Cuse.. Tobias went to Tenn. to watch a game and tell the coach no in person..
Tobias will be in Syracuse next year, and be enjoying a #1 recruiting class.. Tech was never really an option… Tenn. was close, but it’s cuse.
Smyrna Man
November 19th, 2009
3:47 pm
All VOL, BABY
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
3:48 pm
HE WILL ATTEND ONE OF HE THE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE A NEY YORK HEAD COACH SUCH AS….UK, GT, OR THE CUSE….MY SLEEPER IS TENNESSEE. THEY DROPPED A SCOLARSHIP OFFER FROM ANOTHER GUY AND IM AFRAID THAT THATS TO MAKE ROOM FOR TOBIAS….
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
3:53 pm
NEW YORK….SORRY
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
3:54 pm
IF SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER HE CHOSES GT, THEY WILL MAKE A RUN FOR A NATIONAL TITLE….THEY WILL BE LOADED IF FAVORS STAYS….WOW!!!!
unbiased volfan
November 19th, 2009
3:54 pm
done deal….headin to knoxville
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
3:56 pm
JOSHUA YOUR A MORON, WHO WAS NOT A REAL CHOICE? GT WAS A HUGE CHOICE OF HIS IF YOU DID YOUR HOMEWORK…..GET A CLUE, HE HAS TIES WITH PAUL HEWITT…NOT TO SAY HE WILL PICK THE JACKETS
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
3:57 pm
UNBIASED HE WILL NOT LEAK THAT INFO UNTIL 6 TONIGHT BUT NICE TRY….MAYBE HE WILL COMMITT TO THE VOLS BUT THAts A BAD CHOICE FOR HIM. IF YOU WANNA MAKE A REAL NAME FOR HIMSELF YOU WILL GO TO THE BEST CONF. IN THE LAND IN THE ACC…..
DRC
November 19th, 2009
3:57 pm
Yeah, come on down to GT so Paul Hewitt can coach you how NOT to play basketball.
Jose
November 19th, 2009
3:57 pm
FEAR THE TURTLE HE IS A TERP BOYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
unbiased volfan
November 19th, 2009
4:00 pm
dude, take your caps off u nerd
wiley
November 19th, 2009
4:03 pm
Paul Hewitt could get the Atlanta hawks to come play in the thriller dome and still not win the ACC…its pathetic. If hewitt does his normal job of coaching, ie not developing players, Favors may be forced to stay another year…thats the only bright side I see right now. Dayton tried to hand us the game today and we gave it right back with our 26 turnovers…pathetic…I miss GT basketball.
Herschel Talker
November 19th, 2009
4:16 pm
Dayton 63-59!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just a reminder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
4:20 pm
OK AND YOUR POINT IS? I DO REMEMBER HIM LEADING A LESS TALANTED TEAM TO THE FINAL FOUR. JUST A REMINDER !! ALSO REMEMBER GOOBERS THAT HE IS COACHING A MOSTLY FRESHMAN TEAM NOW…..GET A CLUE
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
4:22 pm
I THINK THAT WAS 2002 AND DID BEAT THAT UCONN TEAM BY 22 EARLIER THAT YEAR. WOULD HAVE WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP THAT YEAR ALSO IF ELDER, BYNUM, MOORE & MUHAMMAD WERE NOT INJURED
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
4:23 pm
HEWITT IS DOING SOMETHING RIGHT FELLOWS…HE GOT DERRICK FAVORS THE NATIONS #1 RANKED PLAYER AND MUDOFIA THE NATIONS #5 GUARD
Joe Blow
November 19th, 2009
4:24 pm
Even the ‘cuse boards are reporting it…he’s a Vol. Wonder why UGA wasn’t in the mix? Maybe because of …..45-19!
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
4:25 pm
UGA SUCKS….I SAID TENN WAS MY SLEEPER
DRC
November 19th, 2009
4:28 pm
Hewitt took Lawal out of the game with about 2:00 min left to play. Dayton scores a couple of times while he is on the bench in a span of 30 sec. Hewitt puts Lawal back in with about 1:30 to go in the game. Other than losing the game for GT, exactly what did Hewitt think he was doing ? Can someone please explain ?
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
4:29 pm
CHECK OUT THE NEW POINT GUARD GT SIGNED A WEEK AGO….MORRIS IS A STUD!!!!
RAMBLINWRECK
November 19th, 2009
4:30 pm
WELL I COULD NOT WATCH THE GAME BECAUSE I JUST MOVED TO TAMPA….IM A HUGE GT FAN AND REALLY MISS WATCHING ALL THE GAMES AT THE THRILLER DOME
Rabun Dawg
November 19th, 2009
4:45 pm
Sad state of affairs when a high school kid has a press conference to announce what school gets his services for a year before he turns pro. I guess the thought of an education is out of the question with these guys! Oh well, if UGA cared about the game, maybe I could get excited like the others seem to! Yea, being only a “football school” really sux! Second thought, we are really a gymnastics school!
unbiased volfan
November 19th, 2009
5:02 pm
look at this and tell me where you think he is going….
he is all vol, no doubt about it
http://www.testudotimes.com/2009/10/11/1080758/tobias-harris-tennessee-visit
Johnny Hazeltine
November 19th, 2009
5:07 pm
Recruiting is one thing. Developing players, another. But Hewitt is missing is ability to coach this team. Wins have gotten harder and harder to come by.
Tech fans are done watching poor fundamental basketball. We’re done watching guards just dribble around trying to “create”. We’re done watching games where they have almost 4X as many turnovers as they do assists. It’s too much of the same, five-star recruits, or not.
Kyle
November 19th, 2009
5:15 pm
Enter your comments here
Kyle
November 19th, 2009
5:16 pm
He may have a rock with a painting of him….but hes rocking the Under Armour shirt…..which is ALL MD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob Huggins
November 19th, 2009
5:18 pm
He signed with us…sorry.
Kyle
November 19th, 2009
5:21 pm
really wish it was 6 right now! been looking foward for this for a few weeks!!!!
FEAR THE TURTLE!!!!!! O BAAAAABY!
Kyle
November 19th, 2009
5:22 pm
Show me the link man….just becasue he went to the ashville game doesnt me he is there…hoping for the best.
Kyle
November 19th, 2009
5:26 pm
I’m in Time Square at the ESPN zone right now on my blackberry. I can promise you right now….Tobais has not said ANYTHING. He is sporting a nice suit jacket though
kudzu
November 19th, 2009
5:28 pm
Hewitt can recruit these (leave early playas), coach em, he can not. Time to hire Mark Price…get some stability down at the gold top
swise63
November 19th, 2009
5:30 pm
Hey Hershel Talker
Wofford 60 – UGA 57!!!!!!!!!!!! Just a reminder!!!!!!!!! please don’t try to talk about our basketball team when you don’t even have much better than most High School teams in this state
kudzu
November 19th, 2009
5:33 pm
Rabun Dawg, I agree…what are we doing to our young high school students? Do we have to make that (much) out of people…we have screwed up priorities.
Donnie Dawg
November 19th, 2009
5:34 pm
Uga’s dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was the best Dawg in the world! Please pray for the Dawg family. This really hurts…….
Kyle
November 19th, 2009
5:46 pm
MD ALL DAY!!
Tom
November 19th, 2009
5:57 pm
You say live television. What channel?
Elijah
November 19th, 2009
6:00 pm
WOW, I cannot believe he announced Morehead State…what a shocker
The crowd didnt even cheer
Wimp Sanderson
November 19th, 2009
6:03 pm
Alabama bound
J - NYC
November 19th, 2009
6:05 pm
You know it will be the CUSE!
wow
November 19th, 2009
6:11 pm
Lebron James could decide he never went to college and now he wants to and heads to GA Tech…still not going to win
Tokyo jacket
November 19th, 2009
6:12 pm
Where did he go?
Wvu
November 19th, 2009
6:25 pm
West Virginia
Innocent Bystander
November 19th, 2009
6:26 pm
He committed to Tennessee. Just announced on ESPNU.
Jacket14
November 19th, 2009
6:26 pm
He chose Tennessee. Dammit.
UTVOLS16
November 19th, 2009
6:26 pm
Hes All VOL!! Signed the LOI already
bp
November 19th, 2009
6:27 pm
this team is worse than last year.PH has got to go.same old outta control street ball team year after year.
Wvu
November 19th, 2009
6:34 pm
I hope he breaks his foot.
He will be a loser.
The SEC is only a football conference.
I guess playing in the BIG EAST was too hard for him.
atlvol55
November 19th, 2009
6:35 pm
Yes!!!!!!! Welcome Tobias….GO VOLS!!!
Sorry Dogs
November 19th, 2009
6:38 pm
Congrats to the kid and UT fans.
Bummer though, I was hoping he’d choose Tech. He might have helped attract a decent frickin head coach.
Kyle
November 19th, 2009
6:47 pm
He would go to the one sport conferance. SEC SUCKS! should of gone to the acc!
TERPS ALL DAY
WPinAZ
November 19th, 2009
6:48 pm
26 turnovers!!!! We have 3 McDonalds all-americans in the STARTING line up!! 26 turnovers!!! I’m so fed up with Paul Hewitt I don’t know what to do. 2 games, and FAVORS can get no more than 10 points, and less than 10 shots per game?? Same story with CHRIS BOSH a few years back. Absolutely disgusting. PATHETIC.
joe
November 19th, 2009
6:57 pm
Hey Kyle, tell us what the big moment was like in NYC when Harris chose the Vols over your beloved Terps…you must have been so deflated, did you cry in your beer???
GT
November 19th, 2009
7:03 pm
Smart choice fella. Hewitt would have only coached him down.
Hayseed Dixie
November 19th, 2009
7:26 pm
Hewitt is the Mark Richt of college basketball.
Early success that wasn’t his doing (Van Gorder = Jarett Jack). Great recruits that yield mediocre results.
Tech athletics will be focused on keeping Paul Johnson, I wonder if that will hamstring efforts to axe Hewitt?
Burdell
November 19th, 2009
7:41 pm
He’ll fit right in with the rest of the UT athletes…hope he has a pellet gun cuz it can get rough in Knoxvegas!
Jim Harrick
November 19th, 2009
7:54 pm
Same crap, different year! 11-20 at foul line. 26 turn overs. 2 3-pointers. we have players you can only run and just. Have no clue how to shoot. I am getting sooooooooooooooooooooo sick of GT’s bball program. Someone has to go! We need the football team to win the ACC championdhip game so we can get the money to buy out one basketball coach.
killerJ
November 19th, 2009
8:06 pm
I hate To Say This,Shoot Me If You Will,Is It Because He Is black?It,s The Only Reason I can See He Hasn,t Been Axed.Radavich is A Smart Man,But You Know The Race Card Will Be Played,.Same thing with Gailey,He Makes To Much To Lose.
UGAissolastyear
November 19th, 2009
8:17 pm
We are soooo over Hewitt. We have been for a few years. We are just waiting patiently for the change. The fans have given up on him. No sell-outs, no interest. His style of basketball doesn’t sit well with GT fans and alum. I like the way Duke and UNC play basketball. Their kids grow up learning the fundamentals of basketball. They don’t ‘learn’ the game on a playground.
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November 19th, 2009
8:32 pm
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TechFan
November 19th, 2009
9:02 pm
He’s got weak knees, we don’t need him.
Michael
November 19th, 2009
9:05 pm
Georgia Tech. Where good basketball players go to hide.
IndyGT
November 19th, 2009
9:17 pm
I was in the minority of people who defended Hewitt last year. Arguing that give him a pass last year, because things were out of his control, and losses weren’t his fault. But, I would judge him harshly this year.. and this is pathetic. 26 TO’s?? Its as if nothing was learned from last year.. He better do something quick, because I’ve been one of his supporters, and I’m losing confidence.
Tech82
November 19th, 2009
9:39 pm
It’s going to be hard for this team to compete in the ACC when they have to go out and beat their head coach every night. With the talent on this roster, we should be a top-ten team. Instead, Hewitt will coach them to the bubble. This is embarrassing.
why SEC?
November 19th, 2009
9:55 pm
why go to the ACC when you are going to face Duke, UNC, et al and get punished for four years? Go to the SEC and beat teams like UGA.
Hell, Wofford is beating UGA these days
GOLD PANTS
November 19th, 2009
11:25 pm
Our problems start with poor point guard play especially Chumpert. Damm, he is awful.. But he is not as bad as Hewitt is as a coach . It’s like pick your poison.
Old time Jacket fan
November 20th, 2009
12:16 am
Paul Hewitt is another David Braine hire that was a mistake. He is not a coach. He got lucky one time and it will cost GT a lot of money to get rid of him. I hope that we don’t have to put up with him much longer.
AMG
November 20th, 2009
10:46 am
When you have pro scouts talking about how players were badly under utilized and placed in bad situations frequently by bad coaching, you know something is really wrong. Paul Hewitt is NOT coaching anything at alll. He spends more time on his racially divided thoughts than actually coaching the team. If you gave UNC, Duke or Michigan the kind of talent that he has they would have been preseason top 5, but the college basketball people know Paul Hewitt does not know basketball. They actually knew this after the run in 2003-2004. There was a huge outcry about our road to the finals and how we should not have gotten such an easy road. This was parcially because word abot Hewitt was already spreading. He is a 1,000,000 dollar a year second rate high school coach. Fire him and hire someone cheap that will at least try to make things work.