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Gilbert Highland point guard Matt Carlino still has three high school basketball seasons to play, but he decided to give his dad/coach a break from all the phone calls he was receiving from college coaches and committed to Indiana during an elite camp this weekend in Bloomington. Carlino, who measured at 6-foot-2 1/2, 170 pounds at the camp, averaged 16 points, seven rebounds and five assists as a freshman starter on the varsity coached by his father, Mark Carlino, a former Arizona State player. He made The Republic's All-Class 5A second team last season. He was sold on new coach Tom Crean, who left Marquette and recently signed a 10-year contract. Carlino received his first offer as a seventh grader from Arizona coach Lute Olson.

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August 25, 2008  09:40 AM ET
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what really is a verbal committment ?

August 25, 2008  02:19 PM ET
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It doesn't mean much.

August 26, 2008  12:00 AM ET
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A Verbal commitment means everything. Once you've made that commitment to a program, you'd have to be a low-life to back out of it.

- Eric Gordon

August 26, 2008  06:40 AM ET
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IT IS A MATTER OF INTEGRITY. You are to live up to your word. It is
a verbal promise, In times past it meant something and even contracts
were made and it meant you were well trusted, but where is trust in these days.

August 26, 2008  02:08 PM ET
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My hoosiers have a long road. Sampson...............

August 27, 2008  02:56 PM ET
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gordon is a hoosier, not from ill, he has the right to change his mind. but i guess i'd be mad if it were the other way around. this kid has a right to change his mind also. if crean gets in trouble or whatever and iu is on probation because of stupid sampson, then the kid should change his mind. GO I.U.

August 27, 2008  03:57 PM ET
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iu should get indiana's best, or at least an indiana college. not nc or marquette or definitely not duke. i hate duke.

August 27, 2008  06:13 PM ET
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He's rated #8 in the 2011 Class. That's a long time. Hopefully he continues to progress. He hopes that Crean and Co. will be able to win a National Championship when he gets there. I think that is possible.

August 28, 2008  06:26 PM ET
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i wish kids like this wouldnt commit so early...a sophmore in high school??? his mind will change most likely and i think it hurts everyone in the long run. unless he has been a hoosier fan since he was 4 its a bad move

August 28, 2008  06:27 PM ET
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GO DUKE! and Coach K is the man for returning gold to the US

 
September 2, 2008  12:08 AM ET
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His dad has always been a IU hoop fan and would have walked-on there in his wildest dreams, it was only eight weeks ago when everyone was talking nonsense about my team. It looks like we are in the mix in 2 years.!!..!!!!

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