NYC point guard will reclassify
Schools that want to recruit Russ Smith, a 6-foot, 150-pound guard for the New York Gauchos and Archbishop Molloy High School, they will have to wait another year to get him onto campus as a college athlete.
The rail-thin point guard said he will likely take a post-graduate year at a prep school to be determined. The reason?
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"I have to get stronger. There is no doubt about that. I have to get stronger that is why 2010 is looking like the best thing for me," Smith, the second-leading scorer in New York City last year, said.
The slippery guard has enjoyed a strong spring and start to the summer. He's a scoring point guard that is gaining steam as the July period quickly approaches.
"I feel good about my play because I feel like I'm becoming a better guard and I'm becoming more confident in my abilities," Smith said. "I want to show that I can score and that I can get my teammates the ball so they can score at the right time, too.
"At the end of the day, I still want to play hard and I still have to play to my potential that my teammates want me to play. I just want to win. I'll do whatever it takes to win. I don't want to get complacent just because I'm going to do a year of post-grad."
Smith said he has heard from George Mason, Arkansas, Louisville, Jacksonville, Virginia, Miami, South Carolina, Ohio, Toledo, New Orleans and Wright State. According to those in the Gauchos program, the majority of schools on his list were under the assumption that he would be a 2009 recruit.