Recruiting Central: Top recruits ready to swoop to Hawk Hill

Talk about a big week on Hawk Hill.

St. Joseph's will host three of its primary recruiting targets for the Class of 2012 over the next few days.

Donovan Jack, a 6-foot-9 senior power forward at Berks Catholic, will visit the Hawks on Thursday.

This weekend, St. Joe's will host Isaiah Miles and Matt Willms.

Miles is a 6-7 senior combo forward at Millford Mill Academy in Baltimore, and Willms is a 7-0 senior center at Findlay Prep (Nev.).

Jack, who plays for Bucks County's Pa Playaz AAU team, has scholarship offers from 39 schools, including Drexel and La Salle.

The Hawks are competing with South Florida, Xavier, Loyola (Md.), Towson, Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest for Miles.

Willms, a Canadian, also has offers from UNLV, Marquette, Clemson, Nebraska, and Minnesota, among others.

Decision time. Boys' Latin senior guard Maurice Watson Jr. will announce his college plans Wednesday morning at his high school.

The 5-10, 158-pounder has narrowed his list of potential destinations to La Salle, Virginia, Niagara, Boston University, and Hofstra. He had 19 scholarship offers.

The next big thing? Theo Mordecai could blossom into a big-time college-football prospect.

Only a sophomore, the Mercersburg Academy wideout already stands 6-3 and weighs 190 pounds.

Mordecai, whose father, Ted, played football at Cardinal Dougherty and Norfolk State, is attracting preliminary recruiting interest from Penn State and Kentucky.

He's been invited to attend two Nittany Lions football games this fall.

No love for Penn State. Remember Jarron Jones?

He's the 6-7, 308-pound defensive tackle who decommitted from Penn State in July. On Monday, the Aquinas Institute (N.Y.) senior gave an oral commitment to Notre Dame.

In the process, Jones took a jab at Penn State and the Nittany Lions 84-year-old coach, Joe Paterno.

"I really feel like the coaches at Notre Dame are younger, more energetic like my high school coaches, more hands-on, and that's really what I need," he told IrishIllustrated.com on Monday. "This morning I just thought it was right. I just really felt like I'll be more successful at Notre Dame than at Penn State or any other college."

Recruiting trail. Cheltenham senior combo guard Nafis Walker and his father, Nick, took an official visit to Quinnipiac last week. The Walkers came away impressed.