Chris Bosh's College Recruiter Weighs In

After seeing Chris Bosh's video campaigning for votes to the NBA All-Star game and laughing almost hysterically, I quickly remembered that he went to Georgia Tech.

That meant that JMU basketball coach Dean Keener probably coached him a few years back. This worked out nicely because I'm pretty bored here in Harrisonburg considering few of my fellow students have returned from break.

So I moseyed around Keener's practice today waiting for him so that I could get his impression of Bosh's video.

Keener was actually the top recruiter of the now Toronto Raptors' starting forward and had just heard about the video today.

"Was there something on SportsCenter last night?" Keener asked. "Somebody sent me an email today, but I couldn't pull it up."

I then explained to him the video and he smiled remembering the easy-going Bosh.

"It doesn't surprise me that he would dress up and look funny and act funny," Keener added. "He's still very much a kid at heart.

"Any opportunity we get to talk, he'll return my call. He's just a really good person. He was really easy to talk to even as a 17-year old he'd be engaging on the phone, whereas a lot of kids especially All-Americans think...that you owe them something like 'Why are you calling me.' He was great. He was always on time. During recruitment he would always return calls. He made recruiting fun."

Keener added that he would give Bosh his vote regardless and believes that he's among the top 10-12 players in the league.