all this might not have transpired interesting read

http://www.zagsblog.com/2012/02/10/coach-says-jeremy-lin-was-misled-by-stanford-coach/

NEW YORK — It was the first week of January 2006 and Jeremy Lin was “dead set on going to Stanford” out of Palo Alto High School.

This, according to Peter Diepenbrock, Lin’s high school coach.

The problem was that then-Stanford coach Trent Johnson “ this thing up bad, really bad,” Diepenbrock told SNY.tv Friday by phone hours before Lin went off for a career-high 38 points to go with seven assists in the Knicks’ 92-85 victory over Kobe Bryant and the Lakers at Madison Square Garden.

According to Diepenbrock, during that January 2006 meeting in Johnson’s office with Lin, Lin’s mother, Shirley, and Diepenbrock, Johnson said he had only one scholarship remaining for the 2006-7 season after three players – Will Paul and future NBA players Brook and Robin Lopez — had signed in the fall.

“We really want you on the team,” Diepenbrock recalled Johnson saying to Lin.

“What about a scholarship?” Shirley asked.

Her son didn’t have a single Division I scholarship offer despite being en route to leading his team to a California Interscholastic Federation Division II title and earning All-State honors.

According to Diepenbrock, Johnson said he was recruiting two other guys, adding, “Whichever one of these two guys commits, that’s who we’re going to give it to.”

“If neither of them comes, can Jeremy have the one scholarship?” Diepenbrock recalled Shirley asking

“If they don’t come, definitely, definitely,” he recalled Johnson saying.

“It’s reasonable of him to say that,” Diepenbrock told Shirley.

Johnson said by phone that he already had enough players committed and wanted Lin to walk on that year.

“Walk on fine, scholarship the following year, that’s what I remember,” Johnson said.

Johnson added that it’s not his policy to over-recruit because ultimately that’s not good for anyone.

“I don’t over-recruit,” Johnson said. “They’re not very happy and they leave.”

He added that there were a “lot of people who didn’t offer him the opportunity to walk-on.”

By early February 2006, Stanford accepted commitments from two additional players, giving them a five-man recruiting class.

Their names?

One was Landry Fields, a wing who chose Stanford over Arizona. He, of course, is now the current starting shooting guard on the Knicks.

The other was Da’Veed Dildy, a 6-5 point guard out of Chicago whom Johnson had courted heavily.

“They both commit and they both get scholarships,” Diepenbrock said.

“Oh, boy did that not go over.”

Diepenbrock said Lin and his mother were so turned off by what happened, that when a Stanford assistant tried calling Lin later on to get him to walk-on, he never returned the calls.

“Come on, coach, I can’t play for somebody I can’t trust,” Diepenbrock recalled Lin saying.

Asked after the Knicks game if he was even aware Stanford was recruiting Lin at the time, Fields said, “No, not at all.”

Should they have used a scholarship on him?

“Maybe, you don’t know,” Fields said. “It’s in the past. And things might not have worked out for him the way they are right now because stuff happens.”

Lin ultimately landed at Harvard, which, along with Brown, were the only schools to guarantee him a spot on the roster.