It's nice to be wanted

Football recruiting season is upon us.

Wait, you say. You thought we just finished.

Hey, it never ends. We're talking 2010 recruiting now.

Bishop Carroll's record-setting quarterback, Blake Bell, the Gatorade Kansas player of the year for the 2008 season, already has offers from 17 major universities, including KU and K-State, according to his coach, Alan Schuckman.

Schuckman said today that Bell, who's also the basketball team's leading scorer, wants to give all his time and energy to basketball right now. Last year, the Eagles made it to the state championship game in basketball, but Bell was out with a broken hand. He'd like to be a participant this time in another deep playoff run.

But once the season ends, Schuckman said, Bell, his parents and Schuckman will sit down and put together a time table for evaluating schools. Right now, he said, Bell has no favorites.

In the meantime, here are the schools that have made offers:

Arizona
Clemson
Colorado State
Georgia
Iowa
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
LSU
Maryland
Miami
Missouri
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Oklahoma
Texas A & M
UCLA