(2018) SG Aguek Arop [San Diego State- Signed LOI]

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Player: Aguek Arop
Hometown: Omaha
School: South
AAU: Omaha Elite
Position: Shooting Guard
Height: 6-5
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Offers: Nebraska

Visits: 9/12/15 - FB vs. South Alabama

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This kid is going to get many more offers. His Omaha Elite team is one of the best in the region. Haven't had a chance to watch him yet but everyone in Omaha is talking about him already.

 
In many ways, Aguek Arop is your typical skinny, friendly, basketball-loving 15-year-old enjoying his summer break.


Well, except for the fact that this springy 6-foot-4 prospect now holds a scholarship offer from Nebraska — just more than a month after finishing his freshman year at Omaha South.

This weekend, his AAU team, Omaha Elite 15U, is in suburban Milwaukee for the NY2LA Summer Jam tourney. After an overtime win against a Wisconsin team on Friday morning, talent-laden Omaha Elite had a sparkling 32-3 record this spring and summer.

“My favorite part of playing basketball is having fun,” Arop said with a smile. “I love playing with these guys.”

It was one week ago when Arop’s AAU coach, Thomas Liechti, received a surprise call from Nebraska coach Tim Miles. The Omaha Elite team was at a Steak ’n Shake restaurant outside St. Louis, where it had just lost the championship game of a tournament.

“Before I got the call, it was very somber,” Liechti said. “There were chins on chests. ... The guys weren’t eating much. But then the call came, and when I told them, they were so excited for Aguek. It was like he won the lottery.”
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“I think I will continue to grow,” he said. “I’m hoping I reach 6-7.”


Right now, he carries about 180 pounds on his lithe 6-4 frame. He said he has a 3.3 grade-point average and size 13 feet, and last year, his wingspan was measured at an unusually long 6-10.
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IF, he really becomes elite, it's going to be tough to get him when he already has announced his "Dream" team is Duke and Coach K.................

 
Comish said:
IF, he really becomes elite, it's going to be tough to get him when he already has announced his "Dream" team is Duke and Coach K.................
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Arop might change just his tune after he goes to a few games in the Bank. That place rocks. Can compete with nearly any venue in college basketball for excitement.

 
Wow!! That is really impressive. Has the new excitement of basketball in this state also helped in the high school level or is it just coincidence?

 
HUSKER FREAK said:
Wow!! That is really impressive. Has the new excitement of basketball in this state also helped in the high school level or is it just coincidence?
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There has been a movement in Nebraska to promote and form AAU basketball teams. The organization I'm most familiar with is Nebraska Elite. I'm assuming Omaha Elite is part of that same organization. My son went to a tryout and was asked be on a team. However, we decided to sit this summer out. He is just going into his Freshman year and we already had him lined up to play a lot of basketball in central Nebraska. I didn't see a reason to be driving all over north America with an incoming freshman. I told him if he works his butt off and keeps improving his game, this is something we could look at doing in the future.

Anyway, the guys who are running Nebraska Elite are working their tales off to raise the level of basketball in Nebraska. I hope they succeed. It would only help all college programs in the state and it would allow a lot of good Nebraska athletes the chance to play in college.

 
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Sure, Aguek Arop figured that someday, if he kept working and improving, he could receive a Division I basketball scholarship offer.


Maybe, say, after he’s old enough to drive.

“I was expecting it next year, maybe, or the year after,” said the 15-year-old — his name is pronounced "uh-GWOOK uh-ROPE" — who will be a sophomore this fall at Omaha South High School.

Yet less than an hour after his Omaha Elite team had lost to the nation’s No. 2-ranked team in the July 13 championship game of an AAU tournament in St. Louis, guess who had his first offer.

From Nebraska, no less.

“It meant a lot,” Arop said. “I was pretty excited.”
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Question....

What is the difference between an "official visit" and an "unofficial visit" other than the school paying for the official visit? Is there something more the coaches can do with the recruit on the official that are within the rules than the unofficial?

 
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BigRedBuster said:
Question....

What is the difference between an "official visit" and an "unofficial visit" other than the school paying for the official visit? Is there something more the coaches can do with the recruit on the official that are within the rules than the unofficial?
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That's pretty much it. You'll often see a football recruit not take an "official visit" to a local school if they want to take five other visits because it doesn't cost much to travel to the local school.

 
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