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Post by thumper on May 19, 2015 15:24:33 GMT -5
why does it have to be someone or something?.....is it possible the kid doesn't like our HC? Even you would agree that everything is something. PIZZA, SODA, GRINDERS!!!
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Post by thewalk on May 19, 2015 15:33:51 GMT -5
eff him...no longer a friar.
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Post by Free Weyinmi on May 19, 2015 16:06:35 GMT -5
don't remember that comment info....who made it? I remember that. I believe it was a tweet from a player while sitting in a classroom. Forget who.
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Post by Free Weyinmi on May 19, 2015 16:17:50 GMT -5
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Post by drairf on May 19, 2015 20:38:17 GMT -5
Cooley throwing some little jabs in the new Donaldson article.
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Post by dmac80 on May 19, 2015 22:14:29 GMT -5
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Post by friarbrown on May 19, 2015 22:50:39 GMT -5
Cooley throwing some little jabs in the new Donaldson article. It's the truth. I think Ed was being kind. At the end of the day this hurts the program big time. We may have already landed someone to replace Chuckwu if they had known earlier that he wanted out. The kid will realize that the grass isn't always greener eventually. College is college and it's gonna be the same day to day grind. Study, workout, study, workout some more and sleep. That's the life of a student athlete.
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Post by friara on May 20, 2015 5:31:29 GMT -5
why does it have to be someone or something?.....is it possible the kid doesn't like our HC? Just as possible that the kid doesn't like your alma mater. I think it's bigger than Cooley. I think the kid didn't like being at PC. Same as Fortune.
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Post by TheInfoMan on May 20, 2015 5:55:50 GMT -5
What doesn't make sense in either case is why wait till the 3rd week in May and burn your coach?
Snip from the Article: “Josh wanted to play a different position,” Cooley said. “He wanted to play point guard. He was recruited by a different guy (Keno Davis). “When he told me about (his desire to transfer), it made sense. I got it. The Chukwu thing, I was blown away by.” Chukwu’s decision seems to have caught everyone at Providence by surprise. Cooley, certainly, was stunned. “I didn’t know he was unhappy,” Cooley said. “It was a total shocker. It blew me completely out of the water.”
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Post by charl on May 20, 2015 6:36:37 GMT -5
eff him...no longer a friar. Yep. After reading the Donaldson article, eff him. Don't let the door hit you in the arse on your way out, and go pound sand somewhere. No longer in the mood for any "understanding" here. You had a coach and teammates that were counting on you next year. Get lost already.
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Post by TheInfoMan on May 20, 2015 6:40:26 GMT -5
eff him...no longer a friar. Yep. After reading the Donaldson article, eff him. Don't let the door hit you in the arse on your way out, and go pound sand somewhere. No longer in the mood for any "understanding" here. You had a coach and teammates that were counting on you next year. Get lost already. He is dead to me.
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Post by charl on May 20, 2015 6:41:07 GMT -5
What doesn't make sense in either case is why wait till the 3rd week in May and burn your coach? Snip from the Article: “Josh wanted to play a different position,” Cooley said. “He wanted to play point guard. He was recruited by a different guy (Keno Davis). “When he told me about (his desire to transfer), it made sense. I got it. The Chukwu thing, I was blown away by.” Chukwu’s decision seems to have caught everyone at Providence by surprise. Cooley, certainly, was stunned. “I didn’t know he was unhappy,” Cooley said. “It was a total shocker. It blew me completely out of the water.” Somebody over on Scout claiming to know his family said Simon leaving devastated him, and tipped the scale in favor of leaving. Again, I'm not in the mood for "understanding" here. I didn't know the guy needed Simon to hold his hand while he attended PC. Gee Paschal, are you afraid of the dark too?
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Post by Rock on May 20, 2015 7:38:54 GMT -5
JD's article is a good one. Really expresses what an epidemic this is in all college sports; so while I'm ticked to be facing this situation yet again I have to wonder what can be done to address it head-on. Does the NCAA move the sit-out period from one year to two years? Can it be tied to playing time by year? For example, no frosh can transfer without sitting out two years and then have PT thresholds in each class, something like this:
Soph: play under 5 minutes a game, transfer w/o sitting a year, play upwards of 20 a game, one year sit-out, play 20+ minutes, two year sit-out. Juniors: play under 10 minutes, no sit out etc....
Sounds crazy and doesn't address all the other factors that come with being happy at a school but a scholarship is a privilege and not a bartering chip. Use it wisely or the penalty is rightfully stiff.
I think another interesting thing to look at for PC under Cooley is this: have transfers been a net positive or a net negative for him? Lost Coleman, Fortune and Chukwu, gained CD, Harris and Junior. Are we net gainers or losers in this carousel of "microwave" decision-making? Would stricter transfer rules be supported by PC at all?
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Post by johnnypc on May 20, 2015 8:00:06 GMT -5
Patience is a lost art.
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Post by thewalk on May 20, 2015 8:12:20 GMT -5
Just as possible that the kid doesn't like your alma mater.
I think it's bigger than Cooley. I think the kid didn't like being at PC. Same as Fortune....perfectly acceptable...but doesn't add up when the kid tweets how much he loves friartown....this wasn't Gerald brown coming from Baltimore. The player-coach relationship/ player-teammate relationship carries a ton more weight imo. What's more surprising is cooley being "shocked"...if simon leaving truly was the last straw, don't the coaches discuss these things throughout the year. Did Pascal really hate PC that much and not tell anyone?
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