Whatever It Takes
We confirmed that Beverly Hills point guard Percy ``Romeo'' Miller is indeed receiving a full scholarship next year. Hey, we didn't want to take the word of his public-relations firm.
Now everyone knows just how much USC wanted his best friend, Compton guard DeMar DeRozan. This was a package deal. In fact, you could argue DeRozan got coddled much more than O.J. Mayo during the recruiting process since none of Mayo's buddies got a scholarship.
USC coach Tim Floyd clearly is doing whatever necessary to build a successful program. This is even shrewder than the one-year scholarship offers Keith Wilkinson and Collin Robinson received as freshmen.
Does Miller, with five albums, a TV show and movie on his resume, stay on scholarship after DeRozan leaves early for the NBA?
Floyd's quotes today were amusing. Besides saying Miller had ``tremendous upside,'' he said the Beverly Hills team is ``one of the better high schools in the area.''
We spoke to a local basketball expert at one of our sister papers tonight who said Beverly Hills would not make a top 20 ranking of Southern Section teams.
"trememdous upside"
Well, there's probably not much "downside" if he's as close to the bottom of the barrel as people say.
Heh, I don't know anything about him. It just seems so many people enjoy being mean on the internet so I wanted to give it a try...not bad.
Romeo is NOT D-I material. Neither was his father. I will say one thing for the Miller kid, having seen him play, he does create opportunities for his teammates and people do seem to want to follow him (not just his entourage). He has good charisma.
Beverly Hills is not a Top 25 team in the LA area, but coach Luis Turcios has these kids playing hard night after night and they are dangerous in their league.
They showed his signing on the news the other night. I really hope DeRozan's worth it.