...on the lack of publicity Mokwuah has received previous to his Rutgers commitment:
I don't put much into that stuff. He doesn't promote himself. And as a school, we're looking to do what's right for him. And if I told you the list of schools that were coming in here. It was a lot more than three schools, receiving offers through phone and all that. I consider him going into coach's office, looking him into the eye and telling the kid, we love you and we want you to play for us. I consider that an offer. And I don't know who you have down there, but just about everyone in the northeast and schools a lot further away were offering him. So I don't put much stock in it. As long as he winds up at a school that's right for him -- which he did -- it really doesn't mean much.
Schools found him. Whoever you want to name, they've been here. And they usually leave here offering him a scholarship to whatever degree they can. SEC schools, the Big Ten, ACC, you name it. They were in here. So I guess I could call the recruiting sites and give them all the offers to make it look better, but he was being recruited a lot harder than by three schools. He was getting recruited by just about everybody. All the schools were really high on him and wanted to get him down. I've got to think things would have gotten even crazier if he had given it a little more time. We just thought Rutgers was the way to go. But there were probably, over the last couple weeks, 40 schools in here. It's been busy. So he has the SAT tomorrow. We are just glad he has the SAT tomorrow, and now he gets to focus on that and on his classwork.
