We’re Baaaaack

“This is my serious face!”

In a move that will definitely be one that bests Kansas University head coach Bill Self, as he was going after the same recruit, University of Kentucky head coach Billy Gillispie has landed 5-Star recruit DeAndre Liggins for the 2008 incoming class. Liggins is listed as a six foot, five inch point guard and is the third ranked point guard of the 2008 class and the 18th overall player. This is a huge early commit for Kentucky, a commodity that has seemed to elude the Wildcats in recent history, and will hopefully get the ball rolling for other top tier players to want to add to a 2008 class that is out of the gates in a blaze of glory.

But the implications aren’t just Liggins himself because realize this: in a mere 82-days Billy Clyde Gillispie has locked up a 3-Star recruit (GJ Vilarino – 6′0” PG – 2009 Class), a 4-Star recruit (Alex Legion – 6′5” SG – 2007 Class: #10 at position and #43 overall), and two 5-Star recruits (Patrick Patterson – 6′8” PF – 2007 Class: #3 at position and #17 overall & DeAndre Liggins – 6′5” PG – 2008 Class: #3 at position and #18 overall — not to mention Dakotah Euton – 6′7” PF – 2010 Class: rankings are unavailable this early but he was also being recruited by Florida and Duke).

That is what I call some ‘leg work,’ kudos to Coach Gillispie.

Now that we have defeated Florida and Duke in getting Patterson and now Kansas in getting Liggins, I can see the rest of the coaches across the nation cowering in fear, muttering those famous words that a young Heather O’Rourke, playing Carol Ann Freeling, did in Poltergeist II: The Other Side:

“They’re baaaaaack!”

And we are!

Recruitment rankings courtesy of Rivals.