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SoCalHoops Recruiting News

Joe Shipp Has Not Verballed. . . Yet--(Oct. 8, 1998)

There have been several rumors flying around the internet boards and some recruiting sites that Joe Shipp (6'-6" Sr. F) from Fairfax has already given a verbal committment to Vanderbilt.

Not true. At least not yet. Joe did take an official visit there last weekend and he really enjoyed the trip. He's also visited Oregon State, and Pepperdine is involved pretty hard too, and he may take an official visit there too soon. Come to think of it, I've always thought that taking an "official visit" to a school in your own backyard was sort of an oxymoron. . . how is it really different than just getting in your car and driving up the coast? Do they pick him up in a car, take him to Santa Monica Airport and charter a helicopter for the trip to Malibu?

Right now, these are the three schools most heavily involved, and whether Joe will sign in the fall, or wait until the spring is something only he knows for sure. But we're betting on a fall signing.