Although, Blair's article does have a quote from Burkes saying that CU started following him his Soph year.
what does 'follow' mean? got a letter? was no else 'following' him that year?
Read Blair's article in the link rather than examining my wording:
"That was after Burks’ sophomore season at Grandview, and it’s also when Colorado started paying attention.Buffaloes coach Jeff Bzdelik was scouting other players when he found himself at a summer camp in Leavenworth that Burks attended.
Crazy because nobody else, at least from a major conference, had taken notice. But the Buffaloes’ efforts started immediately.“They saw me then, and I guess they felt like I could do something,” Burks said