Maverick Rowan will be a sophomore in high school. Yes, he really was named after the Tom Cruise character in Top Gun. I’m sure there are no shortage of quotes and bad jokes to use. Though, given the age in the readership we could probably slip some Rowan & Atkinson stuff in as well.
He is already considered a top prospect for the future. Oh, and last night he did this:
Committed to the University of Pittsburgh! #H2P ???? #HardWorkPaysOff #BallisLife #Pitt
— Maverick Rowan (@RoWaN_UnO_SiX6) June 2, 2013
So, yeah. That’s something.
The earliest he gets to Pitt is 2015 — if he reclassifies. As it stands, he is in the class of 2016. As a 17-year old he is already 6-5, 175 pounds.
Rowan is a terrific outside shooter, making seven 3-pointers in one game this season and averaging three 3-pointers a game. He averaged 22.3 points during the regular season, third-best in the WPIAL, and was one of only 26 players in the country named to the MaxPreps.com freshmen All-American team. I’ve seen him play a few times over the past few years, both in high school and on the AAU circuit. His parents named him after the character in the 1980s movie “Top Gun.” It’s appropriate because this Maverick is a gunslinger with a deadly shot. He is tall and slender with long arms and can really stroke the 3-pointer.
Now he needs more muscle and some improvement on the defensive end, but he still has three more years of high school left for that. But he can most certainly shoot. He has put a lot of workout time and effort into being a top player.
He is the son of a St. John’s player — Ron Rowan — who made it to the NBA and had a nice Euroleague career.
A brief note, he plays his AAU ball in Ohio with the Ohio Basketball Club. Worth noting because another Beaver County product — Sheldon Jeter — played his AAU ball with the King James Shooting Stars. Also Ohio based.
In addition to Pitt, other programs have been nosing about Rowan despite his classification. UNC, Kentucky and other top-name programs. So, given the time between now and the earliest signing period — November 2015 — this is far from over. Especially if he continues to develop as most think.
I have to admit, I have a hard time taking this verbal too seriously. I’m sure he means it right now. I think his family is probably happy and supportive of the choice. That said, there is a long time to go and he is still a kid in high school. A lot can — and probably will — change both in his life, his outlook and goals. It strikes me as unrealistic to believe this will be a static situation from here to signing day.
Even more cynically, I am struggling to remember the last time a kid committed this early and stuck with it. Along with becoming the impact player people thought at the time. I’m not even just thinking Pitt — Herb Pope, Terrelle Pryor. I’m thinking guys like Taylor King. Lots of things change in 2+ years.
Hard to get excited about this commit.
I’m more concerned about 3 open scholarships to fill for this year to be able to run a practice. Injuries do happen.
Interesting story, Ron Rowan used to be the head coach at my high school when I was in 6-9th grade. In 9th grade, Maverick would come to open gyms with his Dad and play with us. He would do more than hold his own (as a 2nd grader).
But, Ron knows how to play the system.
Ron transferred himself some 30 years ago when there were very few transfers (ND to St.Johns).
Also, why do you think Mav “repeated” 8th grade and homeschool?
If I were to place odds today of Rowan attending Pitt, I would say it is very low.
Perhaps he could do GED and come in early?
Seventeen year old freshman? Durand
Johnson can shoot 3’s better than any
of the guys who played before him
supposedly because he is weak defensively
Maverick needs at least 35 lbs of muscle
no matter how well he shoots 3’s.
Welcome young man and pleae pay no attention to the host of former D1 stars and NBA alums who populate this board!
Pitt wants you. And Im darn glad you chose to join us now!
make a difference on a player comeing here or not.
read one of the reasons JJ left pitt .
i want to run i aam a running type of player rutgers
will play more my style .
i will still use the D that was taught here but i want to run and gun.
that is very close to what he said.
Great news!
In addition to repeating 8th grade, he either started school late or was held back in elementary school.
“Actually, there is more to the story than that.
Ron Rowan screwed up. While he was Hopewell coach, he has his son play on the 9th grade team when he was an 8th grader. So, Maverick’s eligility clock started.
Ron was fired from Hopewell so he was looking to have his son enroll at LP. Wpial was going to have a hearing as it was considered a “transfer” perse. Ron then found out about the eligibility clock.
Therefore, by repeating 8th grade and not playing for any HS team, Maverick’s eligibility clock restarted. That is why Rowan repeated 8th grade as homeschooling.”
Also, if he reclassifies, he’ll be 19 as a freshman, which is basically only a year behind expected age.
and if he is thinking it outhers are also.
my point was the ones that bitch of the system
pitt runs are more right then wrong if players are
thinking abought it also.
jj i want to run i am a running kind of player
that is the point.
i am not pokeing fun it is a sad thing.
i keep up on the old big east now the AAC
and there only sure bowl tie in for 2014 is
the beef o brady bowl in st petersburgh
outher less then major bowls may come
as things shake out.
but as of now that is there only bowl so it
is there nummber 1 bowl that is sad for them
and it could have been us.
Who was like 20 when he was a freshman. lol
It would be real nice to get a player his size who can shoot and has some moxie.
Welcome to Pitt Maverick !
Had the ACC taken Uconn instead of us, we would have ended up in the Big 12 like the Hoopies.
More than likely instead of the Hoopies, as the Big 12 approached Pitt before the ACC invite. Which was well before WVcc getting it’s invite.
Pitt maybe could have parlayed a Big 12 offer into a Big 10 invite. Who knows what the Big 10 would have done to keep Texas & Oklahoma OUT of PA & Ohio.
Or is that bowl going defunk ?
I feel bad for the kids, I don’t know, 8 to 16 or so, who are UCONN fans. Has a relative went there, played there or just like them, live and die with them.
I remember being young and hanging on to everything Pitt like it was life and death.
You know there are some sad kids, feeling like they aren’t part of the show.
Hopefully the hoops can continue, and maybe UCONN can get in the ACC or Big Ten down the road.
No joy in that situation.
A lot of us would be. Hence all the talk we all had a couple years ago about trying to get in the ACC or Big Ten.
I can still remember, a few, and none by name, telling all of us, “quit with the sky is falling” talk about not getting in a top conference.
In the realm of Pitt athletics, it certainly was a “sky is falling” situation, and thank goodness we got an invite.
they might have the bbva compass bowl also
. DAN if it werent for boston it would be us insted
of u conn it freaks me out it could have been us
it is very sad.
that would have killed me u conn and cinci will still get 5 million for the next 4 years wich is the same as they got in the big east.
but no good bowk games even if you are a good team no automatic in like the outher confereces .
the lack of respect for us if we were there it would have killed me
Would we still play football, of course. No fun being non-relevant though.
We still have to win to be relevant certainly, but if you’re not in one of the Big 5, you pretty much have no chance.
Unless you pull a miracle Boise State or TCU which is a very rare thing to do, and extremely doubtful that we could ever do that.
Sure, it has to do with respect. Again, we still have to win, but you have to be in one of the Big 5 to even get the conversation started.
Decks stacked against smaller school conferences just like in old BCS.
Seems they don’t want to have it somewhere, where the host team, might not be in the conference the following season.
Apparently the XL Center in Hartford isn’t interested.
And things won’t get better as when L-Ville, Rutgers leave they will be replaced by East Carolina, Tulane and Tulsa. Yikes !
connecticut for there BB play off.
can they do that would the NCAA let that happen
i mean a casino and all that goes with that is it legal .
has any one been there how many does it seat .
Next weekend also.
If we don’t have at least 5 commits by mid-June then we are in trouble.
I don’t know how many players with offers are attending. Typically those without offers attend these camps.
I understand your point, but here is mine: Why not welcome the young man? let him know we are happy about his decision and use positive information?
If I had to bet, i’d say that a full 20% of the posts on Blather discuss how poor/late/mediocre/underserved/etc…in recruitng in one form or another.
Here, we get an early and stud committment and for Chryst’s sake (to mix metaphors) all we get is people getting their undies all tied up in a knot.
I understand that you can’t please all of the people all of the time, but the average Blather poster is never pleased.
I would hate to go thru life that way…it’s far too short to see the black lining all the time. Thta’s what Joe D is for isn’t it?
Hell, I thought we had 9 or 10, grant of rights and were on our way.
The AAC, ah!!!! The former BE, ok, blood pressure back down.
