NYC Shooting Guard Visits Austin

by Peter Bean on Jul 3, 2007 10:21 AM CDT in Texas Longhorns Recruiting

Texas made a big impression on 6-6 shooting guard Sylven Landesberg during a recent trip to Austin. As first reported at Rivals ($), the New York city guard made an impromptu visit to Austin, with both him and his father coming away wowed.

"I'm exhausted. We all are. We were so enamored with Texas. It's the most impressive school we've ever been to. The coach was impressive. If he wanted to sell me a toaster oven, I would have returned home with a case of them. They make a good cake in Texas, so to speak," Mr. Landesberg said. "The trip helped Texas without a doubt. We didn't know a lot about Texas or have anyone to call and ask questions, so all I could do was Google the school and the coach and learn. Then when we went there and looked at the school, it was phenomenal, we were all overwhelmed."

Not half-bad, Rick. Not half-bad.

Rivals is also reporting that Landesberg is looking closely at St. Johns, Virginia, and Georgia Tech, but Texas is clearly at or near the top of the list right now. Landesberg would give Texas some much needed length on the wing were he to join the Longhorns.

Landesberg is ranked as the country's #38 prospect in the 2008 class by Rivals.

--PB--

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Peter, I'm not sure where to post this,

but may I ask about your reluctance to use objective case pronouns? Now, I'm getting old but I thought statements like "join Orson and I" or "with both he and his dad" would be correctly rendered "join me" or "with him". I'm silly, but this drives me crazy. On to more pertinent topics: NICE GOING, RICK!

I never will forget ol' what's-his-name.

by Horntod on Jul 3, 2007 12:09 PM CDT reply actions

Grammar police!

You're right, of course. And I'm glad you pointed it out.

Truth be told, I write these things so quickly that I rarely properly check them for mistakes.

Someone else emailed me not too far back to note my misuse of 'complement' and 'compliment,' which I was butchering over and over.

Thanks for pointing it out. I'll be more careful.

--PB--

by Peter Bean on Jul 3, 2007 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions

Don't get me started

on all of the split infinitives on this site. Its enough to truly drive a man insane.

by BrooklynHorn on Jul 4, 2007 11:04 AM CDT up reply actions

Impossible

It's literally impossible to edit the hundreds of thousands of words that go up here. I have just enough time to post as is.

Still, if certain errors keep popping up that drive y'all nuts - let me know. I'm usually pretty good about avoiding ones I'm consciously trying to avoid.

--PB--

by Peter Bean on Jul 4, 2007 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions