Before Eastern York boys' basketball coach Larry Fisher spoke with the media after his team's first-round victory in the District 3 Class AAA tournament he spent a good 10 minutes chatting it up in the locker with Rutgers assistant coach Jim Carr.
Carr, as some of you might have guessed, was in attendance to watch that goofy-looking 6-foot-6 red head shown above.
"Jim is a real nice guy, I talked to him all summer," Fisher said. "They really like Red. They want him in the worst way."
Rutgers is not alone. There are several schools hot on Andrew "Red" Nicholas' trail and fellow sophomore teammate Austin Tillotson is drawing some attention as well.
Coaches from James Madison University came in before the season and worked out Nicholas and Tillotson and said they would take them both right then, according to Fisher.
"It just doesn't stop," Fisher said. "Penn State was here last game. I was watching the Duke-Carolina game the other night and Villanova called. (Assistant coach) Jason Donnelly was talking my ear off."
Those two schools, which both have teams that will likely make this year's NCAA tournament, are pushing much harder for Nicholas then the 6-foot point guard Tillotson at this juncture.
"Donnelly from Villanova said they obviously seek that height and I don't know what you call him -- the freak, a kid that can shoot and rebound and has size" Fisher said, referring to Nicholas. "They go after those freaks that aren't going to be there very long and then you start looking at those other solid ballplayers."
The Eastern coach said that Tillotson will start receiving even more attention soon enough.
"Austin's time will come," Fisher said. "Nobody is forgetting him. They're just out seeking the freaks."
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