How good of a week has it been for Coach Kirk Speraw and his UCF basketball program?
First, they find out Memphis coach John Calipari is leaving for Kentucky and likely will be taking the Tigers' stranglehold on Conference USA with him. And then yesterday Speraw got commitments from two top recruits, including Marcus Jordan, the son of NBA icon Michael Jordan.
Jordan is considered one of the top 150 high school players in the country by both ESPN and Rivals.com. I don't get into ranking recruits, but what I do know about Marcus is this: If his father Michael shows up for UCF home games, there will be an extra thousand fans who show up just to watch M.J. watch M.Jr.
You heard me: UCF Arena is about to become a cool place to be seen. Seriously, who doesn't want to be in the same arena, watching the same game as the biggest American sports legend of the modern era?
This is an exciting time for UCF basketball. With Memphis almost certainly coming back to the pack in Conference USA and Speraw hauling in UCF's most decorated recruiting class ever in Jordan (a 6-3 guard from Chicago), Nik Garcia (6-5 guard from Chicago), R.J. Scott (6-3 guard from New Orleans) and Orlando Christian Prep's 6-8 forward Keith Clanton, there's no reason UCF cannot challenge for the league title in the next year or two.
Speraw has always been considered an excellent X's and O's bench coach who took mediocre talent and turned it into a good team. Now we'll see if he can get the Knights to that next level -- that level where really good talent is turned into a great team.
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