One of those NCAA rules that is stupid—actually, most of them are if you want to know my opinion—is how a coach can’t comment about a player until said player has signed a national letter of intent.

The NCAA allows a coach to call that player at different times of the year, allows the coach to talk to a recruit’s cousin or his girlfriend’s best friend or the recruit’s high school coach every day, but if the coach blurps to a reporter on the record something like, “I’m telling you, that Derwin is darn good,’’ the coach commits an NCAA violation.

Stupid we say.

So, what’s the point of all this? Oh, FSU coach Leonard Hamilton finally can talk about Derwin Kitchen, the sixth member of FSU’s 2008 recruiting class.

FSU has received Kitchen’s letter of intent. So, Coach Hamilton, what can you tell us about Kitchen? Is he a good cook?

“We are very excited about Derwin and his future as a Seminole basketball player,’’ Hamilton said. “His size and athletic ability will allow him to fit in with the players on our team and with the recruits we will have joining our team for the upcoming season.  His skills will be a tremendous complement to the players on our roster.  He will help make his teammates better and his new teammates will help make him a better player during his career as a Seminole.”

For the record, Kitchen is a 6-foot-4 gaurd from Iowa Western Community College, where he averaged 14 points, 6.1 rebounds and 3.3 assists last season. He is a former Florida signee from Jacksonville who went the JuCo route after failing to qualify.