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The 6-foot-3, 185-pound guard averaged 17.2 points and knocked down 40 percent of his threes as a redshirt junior for Greg Kampe's team this past season and would fit Purdue's need for another backcourt scorer.
Cumberland — the cousin of Cincinnati guard Jarron Cumberland — is one of the three grad transfers we know of being targeted by Purdue, the others being High Point's Jahaad Proctor and Charleston's Christian Keeling.
More on Proctor on Keeling
FYI: Indy's Bryce Moore heard from Purdue, but committed to Xavier this past weekend.
Our understanding is that Purdue is aiming to sign one graduate transfer, certainly a guard, and this might be a deal where it's first-come, first-served between Cumberland, Proctor and Keeling.
Cumberland will be at Purdue Monday, Proctor visits officially the weekend of April 24, and Keeling — who has Purdue in his top five — would be brought in thereafter if things get that far, presumably. But if Cumberland decides first, it may be a wrap, and if he doesn't, but Proctor does, the same.
Purdue passing on Indy forward Jake LaRavia seems to reflect its mandate(s) this spring: Get guard help and guard help perhaps only and protect the 2020 scholarship allotment.
We'll have much more to come on the June OV weekends to come the next few weeks. (BN)
Obviously, Sindelar is Purdue's starter heading into this season, and the reasonable presumption is that he'd retain that standing in 2020, though no school in college football has better reason to expect the unexpected at QB than this one does.
Jack Plummer would seem positioned to be next in line, but the end of the line may have just moved back a year.
Obviously, this is something where in recruiting, the chance to start now becomes a more abstract sales pitch, but it will likely have no bearing on the 2020 process, in which it seems to be in solid shape with Ohio QB Evan Prater and would love to take that phone call. (BN)
Barring a change of heart, Shrewsberry would replace new Mercer coach Greg Gary at Purdue and join assistant coaches Steve Lutz and Brandon Brantley on Purdue's sideline.
Purdue does have to hire two graduate assistant coaches, as well. (BN)
Ryan Wallace's connections in Kentucky, then, are deep, deeper than you'd expect from a coach of his age. That's something that could be valuable in recruiting, and we'd expect Wallace to probably operate there, Nashville and that general region.
Beyond that, Wallace seems to be well liked by Purdue's current tight ends and its recruits, both of which he was heavily involved with coaching/recruiting. While Mark Tommerdahl carried the tight ends coach title last season, and Tony Levine before, their special teams duties occupied much of their attention, and Wallace largely filled that role, so from a continuity perspective this makes a lot of sense, too.
The timing of Tommerdahl's departure made the interim deal with Wallace coaching tight ends and Kevin Wolthausen special teams and necessity, but this could have been the move, too, even if circumstance hadn't forced Purdue to handle spring as it did. (BN)
Konieczny is known as a shooter, and he is, with the ability to make threes and shoot on the move, but in our first real look at him Saturday, his size and guard skills stood out. He looks all of 6-foot-6, at least, and showed he could make plays off the dribble, with some intangible wiggle to him in navigating traffic and finishing around the basket, on top of that considerable length.
(Here's some video from Saturday.)
Anyway, he visited Purdue during the season for the Indiana game, and has been drawing some real interest from Purdue, from Greg Gary, but Purdue will pick up where he left off. Matt Painter did see Konieczny during the season, we believe, and that might be notable, but we believe he changed plans to see Trey Galloway at West Lafayette High School to see him instead in South Bend, against St. Joe, specifically because of Konieczny.
Valparaiso and Jack Owens and Miami (Ohio) have offered Konieczny early, and Butler joins Purdue among those interested.
Oh, and CUN-ezh-NEE
Konieczny is a grassroots teammate of Silver Creek's Trey Kaufman, who sure looks like a guy Purdue will have to strongly consider offering.
Kaufman is 6-8ish on his way to 6-10ish maybe, with a great feel for the game for his age, versatility and skill, a distinctly Vincent Edwards-ish element to his game at this point.
(BN)
Additionally, freelancer extraordinaire Sean WIlliams will be present at this weekend's Rivals Camp in Atlanta and will have a report from there.
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