Whether you like it or not, one’s socioeconomic status is of relevance at a boarding school. If you want to believe the Odoms are paying 39k (instead of being a Prep for Prep kid) to send him to Middlesex, feel free.

The school may not be Exeter, Groton, Choate, Andover, or Hotchkiss, but it is certainly light years ahead of the average basketball “prep school” frequently written about in college basketball articles. It’s a light academic night when the kids have to do three hours of homework..

This is their five year matriculation list. To put it in context, over the past five years, not one student wound up at West Virginia, but four have matriculated to Wesleyan, the immortal Adam Zagoria’s alma mater.

http://www.mxschool.edu/academics/counseling/matriculation5year.asp

Odom is a junior so I don’t think he commits this year and even if he does, he’s not at college until 2010.

As for the other guys, Seton Hall is heavily involved with Karron Johnson, Arsalan Kazemi, Jarrid Famous and, to a lesser extent, Andrew Fitzgerald, who won’t decide until the spring. All of them would help Seton Hall, so I think they would all be good gets, although Johnson has some academic issues.

While Rutgers and St. John’s and many other Big East schools have 09 commits already, Seton Hall has none right now. They need to start addressing that with some quality players with some strong academics who can help the program for several years.