Well Pitt didn’t land Galdino, the blue-chipper forward from New Jersey who had Pitt among his final choices. Ultimately, Galdino chose the highest profile program on his list — Kansas.
This can’t be too shocking. It was something of a ripple effet with another recruit. Kansas really came hard in its recruiting of Galdino in the last week when they failed to land Malik Hairston — considered the #7 player in the country. Hairston chose Oregon, which really pulled out all the stops to land the kid from Detroit. We’re talking the charter private jet to fly him from Detroit to Eugene for an overnight trip, at a cost of around $21,000 dollars.
Coach Dixon said he may just hold on to the scholarship for 2005 or not.
I can’t get too bent out of shape at losing this recruit. He only recently became available, and would have simply been a bonus.
