Frankie Collins, who chose Michigan over KU, now recruiting other prospects to UM
Blue-chip point guard Frankie Collins, who as recruiting analysts expected verbally committed to Michigan over Kansas, Auburn, Georgetown, USC and others this week, said in his own blog at SI.com he’d like to bring some other top high school basketball prospects with him to the Big Ten school.
“I’ve been talking with Chet (Holmgren) a little and so I’m really trying hard to get him. We also offered Hunter Sallis too and so I’m working on him,” Collins, a 6-1 senior point guard from Coronado High School in Henderson, Nevada, wrote Wednesday in his blog.
“I think we’d be tough together in the backcourt,” he added in praising Sallis, a 6-5 senior point guard from Millard North High in Omaha, Nebraska. Sallis is considering KU, Michigan, Creighton, Nebraska, North Carolina and others in recruiting. Holmgren, a 7-footer from Minnehaha High in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is ranked No. 3 in the recruiting Class of 2021 by Rivals.com, does not have KU on his list.
“I love their (Wolverines) system because they play through their point guard and through a lot of ball screens. In that system it’s easier to create and play off of your instincts,” Collins, the No. 69-rated player in the Class of 2021 according to Rivals.com, added in the blog.
Sallis, the 11-rated player in the Class of 2021 according to Rivals.com, has said he’d like to take some campus visits once the pandemic recruiting restrictions are eased.
“I think North Carolina and Kansas are definitely way up there. Creighton is in there pretty good, and I think kind of the sleeper team is maybe Iowa State. They’ve done a really good job of building a relationship with him and having constant contact. They are still relatively close to home. Nebraska maybe a little bit, but I don’t think he is going to end up there,” wrote Eric Bossi of Rivals.com, referring to Sallis.
Collins averaged 13.9 points and 6.2 assists per game last season at Compass Prep in Phoenix, Arizona. As a sophomore he attended Clark High School in Las Vegas.
“They (Michigan coaches) started recruiting me at the beginning of my junior year and then they watched me play in December,” Collins told The Michigan Insider. “Ever since then we have been in touch all during the quarantine. Also, me and Juwan Howard (UM coach) have a relationship since I was in the fourth grade and I would always play against his son (Jace). We have a couple of pictures together as well. He was kind of there for the growth of my development and now that he got the job at Michigan he began to recruit me.”
Collins recently had this to say about KU to Zagsblog.com:“Coach (Kurtis) Townsend and I have been talking since my sophomore year when they first offered me. He’s always been big on my development, getting in there and helping me. He was there when my uncle was at Cal so he’s always been helpful. I wanted to get out there and take a visit but I couldn’t because of COVID.”
Sporting News says Dotson is a first-rounder
Former KU point guard Devon Dotson is No. 24 on the 60-player draft “big board” of Sporting News writer Mike DeCourcy. Former KU center Udoka Azubuike is No. 39. That would make Dotson a first-rounder and Azubuike the No. 9 pick of the second round of the Oct. 16 draft. In all, DeCourcy ranked 60 players on his pre-draft “big board” in a piece that appeared Thursday on TSN’s Website.
This story was originally published August 22, 2020 at 10:14 AM.
