The problem is, Providence also has only one projected blue-chipper.

Anderson is the highest ranked Texas blue-chipper to pick a college.

So this sale was less of a surprise, but it certainly cemented the 550"s reputation as a true blue-chipper.

Their other blue-chipper is Derrick Coleman, the 6-9 freshman.

He said, "If you're a blue-chipper from Pennsylvania, you go to Penn State."

At that stage, this was not cocaine talking, it was the arrogance of the blue-chipper who gets away with it because he fills the arena.

Sure, Dwight Freeney was a blue-chipper.

Geoff Billet wished merely for respectability, the high hopes of a native blue-chipper having been tempered by harsh reality.

Plus, Cutcliffe´s quarterback coaching pedigree led Duke to steal Sean Renfree, the first blue-chipper of the new coach´s era.

"I was in Kansas City then," said John Schuerholz, the Braves' general manager, "but Steve was rated a blue-chipper."

At least New Jersey has a blue-chipper in the hopper with Wedgewood, who turns pro in the fall and has learned from the surefire Hall of Famer at training camps.