In light of the new rule allowing seventh graders in basketball to be considered prospects, here is a FICTIONAL story.

Top Ranked Recruit Commits to Iowa State

Waukee, IA (AP) - Basketball phenom Joseph Jacobs has created a cult-like following at Waukee Middle School. Not a day goes by when he isn’t surrounded by adoring classmates. The reason- he’s got mad game.

“The fifth graders that visit the Middle School are the worst,” Jacobs said. “I try to tell them that I need my space, but they act like I’m a Wii console or something, they won’t leave me alone.”

“It gets old giving out autographs every day. You know, sometimes I just want to concentrate on my long division.”

Well, one hassle Jacobs won’t have to deal with for a while is the pressure of who to play for in college.

“I had enough of the constant text messages from coaches. (Kentucky Coach) Billy Gillespie wouldn’t leave me alone. He would say really random things and most of the time they weren’t about basketball. It was kind of creepy. At one point, I had to tell him to stop texting me,” Jacobs said.

Jacobs opens up his I-phone and shows the conversation:

From Gillespie “JJ…this is Billy…just checkin in on ya…have u seen Mall Cop movie yet? We should go next time I’m in town. I heard its lol!”

The stories didn’t end there.

“We ran into Coach Self (Kansas head coach Bill Self) this summer,” Jacobs said. “I was just getting off the Tornado at Adventureland and there he was in a Kansas sweat-suit. Some guy named Danny Manning was there too. He kept bragging how he won something like a realllly long time ago. They kept asking me if I wanted a piece of their funnel cake. It was weird. Then they pulled my dad aside and I could hear them saying something about how he’d be a perfect part of their staff.”

Joseph’s father Tom was confused. “Yea, Coach Self told me it looked like there would be an opening on the Kansas staff in 2013 if I was interested. I told him thanks, but that’s a long ways away and I like my job at Principal.”

Jacobs said he also received scholarship offers from several other programs, including all the in-state schools as well as Steve Alford at New Mexico.

“Coach Alford always started our chats by telling me that he wasn’t interested in the Indiana job and that he’d be there for a long time. He was kind of a goof ball,” Jacobs said.

But the 5-9 combo guard, who is averaging 37 points per game while playing for the Waukee Wramblin’ Wreck in the rugged Central Iowa Youth Basketball League, said he has settled on Iowa State. And the reason is unique.

“Well don’t tell my parents this, but this girl I’m kind of going out with-she wants to be a vet at Iowa State. And I told her at the last school dance while we were dancing to a Rihanna song, that I want to go there too.”