adidas Gauntlet update: Purdue target Robby Carmody
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Robby Carmody hasn't even started his junior year of high school yet and he's already visited most of the schools recruiting him, some of them more than once.
That includes Purdue, which the Pittsburgh-area native visited for the third time last month (update).
Through the series of visits he's taken, he's engaged more substantively with the schools recruiting him than most players his age have even considered doing at this point.
Because of it, he should have a baseline of knowledge that could allow him to make an early decision should he so choose.
"If I want to do it, I definitely could," Carmody said Friday at the adidas Gauntlet finals in South Carolina. "But I'm still trying to weigh out all my options to make sure I make the right choice for me and my family.
"I'm trying to find places that fit my style well obviously on the basketball side, but academics are really important to me as well."
Through the process to this point, the 6-foot-4 guard/wing said he's gotten an idea of who's most invested in recruiting him and why.
"Notre Dame, Purdue, Michigan, places like that," he said. "They play pretty interchangeable guard positions, so I wouldn't really only be playing a 2-guard and I think that's how my style fits best."
The fit Purdue sees with Carmody goes beyond position, skills or any such things.
"They like the toughness side of it I bring, because Purdue's been built on toughness," Carmody said. "That's one of the strong suits of my game."
That was evident during Carmody's Ohio Basketball Club team's afternoon contest at the adidas event, a game in which he scored a game-high 17, but also was hit in the face at least once; knocked to the floor numerous times; guarded - effectively - a 7-plus-footer in the post; and barreled through defenders to the basket on more than one occasion.
That toughness intangible has been a focal point for Purdue ever since it offered Carmody at its elite camp last August. He returned to campus during the season for a game visit, then came back in June.
"I love Purdue," he said. "The coaches are very laid-back around me and I feel like I've built a really good relationship with them.
"I feel pretty comfortable with them. They're people that if you took away all the basketball stuff, I'd still talk to and get along with. I feel like I'm really close with them."
Carmody has also visited Michigan multiple times and has been to Notre Dame also, in addition to a slew of others.
After July, he expects to visit Syracuse and Northwestern.
"I'd like to get out to Stanford, too, but it's kind of far," he said.
It's been an eventful process so far for Carmody and, on paper, it should only be getting started.
"I've loved it," Carmody said. "You only get to experience this once and I've tried to do it all."
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