Kenny Brooks, Kentucky join the fold of offers to 15-year old basketball sensation

Kenny Brooks is already stoked about this year's roster - he said so himself - but the Cats coach is already looking far into the future on the recruiting trail. News broke (per KSR) that Brooks and Kentucky have officially offered a 15-year old high school sophomore; as wild as that sounds, the Wildcats were far from the first program to do so.

Charlotte McCurry is piling up offers to pretty much no end. Billy Gillespie offering middle-schoolers at Kentucky was a bad thing, but that was because the entire country laughed at him for it. This scenario is much, much different. McCurry can hoop.

McCurry plays at John Hardin in Elizabethtown, where she's been on the varsity team for three years already despite just entering her sophomore season. McCurry isn't only ahead of the curve in that way, but she's a three-year starter and averaged 27.2 points per game. That's good for the fifth best in the state last year.

Kentucky joins Providence, Indiana, Wisconsin, Texas A&M, Miami, Dayton, SMU, Virginia Tech, Northern Kentucky, Murray State, Bowling Green, Liberty, and Western Kentucky in McCurry's offer sheet. That's a full-on laundry list.

Charlotte McCurry's Stat Sheet

McCurry shot it at a scorching 58% this past year and she is already 6-foot tall; she'd fit right into SEC as is. The high-scoring prospect averaged over 10 rebounds per game last season, too... she was a freshman, folks. The sky really is the limit.

"Being able to be so close with Kentucky and have a great relationship with the coaching staff means a lot knowing they believe in my potential...Having people like them confident in me is so special," McCurry told the BGDailyNews, signaling the early relationship she's already forming with Brooks and his staff.

"What coach Brooks has done with guards the last two years at Kentucky is very appealing... He also has a great relationship with his players, and that’s big for me.”

Remember, last season, Kenny Brooks called Clara Strack the "worst" superstar he'd ever coached to try to and get the junior going. Of course, it worked. As a coach, you've got to know your players well and, beyond that, how exactly to get the best out of them. But it won't be that easy to add McCurry to Kentucky's list of stars.

“My grandfather grew up in North Carolina and is a big North Carolina fan. I have talked to the North Carolina coaching staff, but don’t have an offer yet,” McCurry said. “I try not to be biased toward any team...I just want to be able to go where there is a good family atmosphere, so I know to stay open-minded about recruiting.”

It'll be a while before we find out, but Brooks is clearly going through the early motions to make sure that spot is in Lexington.

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