(07-15-2017 08:33 PM)Rick Gerlach Wrote:  

(07-15-2017 12:15 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(07-14-2017 09:15 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  -Also, 2018 7-3 Connor Vanover who visited Rice a couple weeks ago is drawing more interest from some SEC schools, so we'll see how his recruiting process plays out.

This article says Connor got offers from Arkansas, Ole Miss, Alabama and Vanderbilt in 2015.

Both of his parents are 6-3 -- and he has two 7-1 older twin brothers. (One plays for Central Arkansas, the other gave up basketball in sixth grade and is "presumably the tallest saxaphone player in the history of marching band at Alabama.") Connor reached 7 feet tall in eighth grade.

He likes to shoot from outside:




Their mom (maiden name: Robyn Irwin) played center for the Razorbacks 1986-89. They were 6-0 vs the Owls during those years. She still holds the Arkansas record for most blocked shots in a game (9) and is also in the Razorbacks' record book for rebounds and free-throw shooting percentage.

Did his dad play football at Rice? (Jeff)? Possibly a nephew or cousin?

Jeff's dad (Finis) played football at McNeese State. He was an offensive lineman at Beaumont French and a center at McNeese (1973-76). (Jeff lettered at Rice in 2000 and 2002-3.)

None of the Arkansas Vanovers are mentioned in the 2013 obituary of Jeff's grandfather (Finis' father), Kenna.

Connor's dad, Chris, did not play basketball. He said in an article, self-dispariginly, that his son Justin (who's the saxophone player at Alabama) "got all his athleticism from his father ... Not well-coordinated." Chris has computer science degrees from U. Arkansas & U. Alabama.

None of Chris' Vanover Facebook friends are Finis, Jeff or from Beaumont.

So it would appear that if they are related, it's probably not a close relation.