{"id":176076,"date":"2015-07-08T09:57:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/?p=176076"},"modified":"2015-07-08T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:57:16","slug":"black-shoe-diaries-2015-july-recruiting-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/black-shoe-diaries-2015-july-recruiting-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Shoe Diaries: 2015 July Recruiting Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackshoediaries.com\/2015\/7\/8\/7430291\/penn-state-basketball-recruiting-july-tony-carr-lamar-stevens-dylan-painter\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/usa-today-8290340.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eric Gibson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re almost exactly halfway through the college basketball offseason, which means the crucial July live recruiting periods are here. If you haven\u2019t been paying attention, this is the most important month on the college basketball recruiting calendar. Over three 5-day periods, college coaches will be evaluating as many prospects as they can at various AAU gyms across the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>For Penn State, we\u2019ve been\u00a0talking for months about the importance of this recruiting class and the impact it will have on the direction Pat Chambers\u2019 program ultimately takes. While the results on the floor have been particularly unimpressive in four years, this staff has made a positive impression on the recruiting trail. One the program desperately needs to grow to breakthrough in the Big Ten&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackshoediaries.com\/2015\/7\/8\/7430291\/penn-state-basketball-recruiting-july-tony-carr-lamar-stevens-dylan-painter\">Penn State Basketball: 2015 July Recruiting Primer &#8211; Black Shoe Diaries<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Gibson: We\u2019re almost exactly halfway through the college basketball offseason, which means the crucial July live recruiting periods are here. If you haven\u2019t been paying attention, this is the most important month on the college basketball recruiting calendar. Over three 5-day periods, college coaches will be evaluating as many prospects as they can at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/black-shoe-diaries-2015-july-recruiting-primer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Shoe Diaries: 2015 July Recruiting Primer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black Shoe Diaries: 2015 July Recruiting Primer - PennStateHoops.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/black-shoe-diaries-2015-july-recruiting-primer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Shoe Diaries: 2015 July Recruiting Primer - PennStateHoops.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eric Gibson: We\u2019re almost exactly halfway through the college basketball offseason, which means the crucial July live recruiting periods are here. 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