***2010-2011 College Hoops Thread***

[mlmpetert]

Wow, tell your buddy we are expecting HUGE things from him going foward. VCU has had a couple 7 footers before but i think Haley is our first American 7 footer, when i first heard about his height i was like great some Russian that has no hands, then i heard he was from Cali. I heard he was pretty highly recruited but choice VCU because of a specialty engineering program we have. Any truth to that? Is this guy real smart too?

[itvnetop]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Wow, tell your buddy we are expecting HUGE things from him going foward. VCU has had a couple 7 footers before but i think Haley is our first American 7 footer, when i first heard about his height i was like great some Russian that has no hands, then i heard he was from Cali. I heard he was pretty highly recruited but choice VCU because of a specialty engineering program we have. Any truth to that? Is this guy real smart too?

That's awesome... honestly I haven't seen him since he was like three feet tall- my buddy's family lives in Palmdale (which is in the middle of nowhere a little over an hour away from LA). I do know his brother is super smart (computer whiz) and his mom was the director of film/theater admissions at UCLA for a while (helped my own brother get into UCLA, even though he transferred later). It doesn't surprise me he chose VCU b/c of the engineering program.