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1/25 Practice Quotes (Akok Akok Edition)

husky429 said:
How hard is it to understand?
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It's difficult with all those periods between the words.

Based on the most recent grid, Akok is getting a scholly when he is ready to play, so I wouldn't call him a "walk on". But I'm pretty particular with words so ymmv.
 
Huskyforlife said:
He.Can't.Play.
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Can someone link me this rule? Never seen or heard anything about it outside a few people who keep mentioning it on here. I accept he isn't going to play. I don't believe that he can't.
 
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KSC94 said:
Can someone link me this rule? Never seen or heard anything about it outside a few people who keep mentioning it on here. I accept he isn't going to play. I don't believe that he can't.
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He can't because if he played he would count against the scholarship limit as a recruited athlete, and they have no scholarship to give him because they've already used all 13. To free up a scholarship they needed a player to voluntarily leave before the start of the semester, and that didn't happen.
 
Have him get a scholarship for the football team. The hierarchy is that if a player is on the football team and the basketball team the scholarship counts against the football team. Nothing says you have to actually play football.
Hope I don't have the rule backwards (knowing my ol' memory it's always a possibility).
 
pj said:
He can't because if he played he would count against the scholarship limit as a recruited athlete, and they have no scholarship to give him because they've already used all 13. To free up a scholarship they needed a player to voluntarily leave before the start of the semester, and that didn't happen.
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Yeah I was doubting also until someone explained the second part of the equation. Financial aid.

He can’t play for the team while receiving financial aid. Makes sense if you break it down. There’s a 13 scholarship limit. So, dubious schools could bring in 14, 15, 16 players and get them close to what they’d have paid out in scholarship money with financial aid instead.

So, you can’t be a “recruited” player, and end up instead on the team as a walk-on, getting financial aid money.
 
MuchoDogYears said:
Yeah I was doubting also until someone explained the second part of the equation. Financial aid.

He can’t play for the team while receiving financial aid. Makes sense if you break it down. There’s a 13 scholarship limit. So, dubious schools could bring in 14, 15, 16 players and get them close to what they’d have paid out in scholarship money with financial aid instead.

So, you can’t be a “recruited” player, and end up instead on the team as a walk-on, getting financial aid money.
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Bingo. Thus why I'm jousting here. I don't understand why Hurley even made the comment as he's not a "walk on" and never has been.
 
storrsroars said:
Bingo. Thus why I'm jousting here. I don't understand why Hurley even made the comment as he's not a "walk on" and never has been.
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I think because he doesn’t count against the scholarship until next year but he’s an enrolled, practicing player. So he’s kinda saying it tongue in cheek, wink wink “walk on.”
 
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I'd say it's a little early to compare him to the greatest forward UConn has ever had. The shot looks nice, though.
 
pj said:
He can't because if he played he would count against the scholarship limit as a recruited athlete, and they have no scholarship to give him because they've already used all 13. To free up a scholarship they needed a player to voluntarily leave before the start of the semester, and that didn't happen.
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And the candidate to voluntarily leave is now suspended indefinitely in his last semester.
 
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Chief00 said:
And the candidate to voluntarily leave is now suspended indefinitely in his last semester.
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Is it possible he was suspended because he wouldn’t “voluntarily” leave? Lol
 
2Infinity said:
Is it possible he was suspended because he wouldn’t “voluntarily” leave? Lol
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No, but he should have read the tea leaves better. Former UConn players usually land in a decent place if they are good off the court and in the classroom.
 
Chief00 said:
Generally, you have scholarship players and walk-ons. For those who say he’s neither - what would he be then?
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I’d say he’s a practice player but they can’t travel I don’t think.
 
Chief00 said:
No, but he should have read the tea leaves better. Former UConn players usually land in a decent place if they are good off the court and in the classroom.
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Hurley doesn’t seem the type to push anyone out the door, but he does seem open and honest about letting the guys know where they stand in competing for playing time. It’s up to the player to read it from there. Looks like he didn’t.
 
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Rico444 said:
Hurley came out and said he wouldn't run a player off to make room for another player. I am pretty sure he flat out called that sort of thing bush league.
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Yup.

And even if Williams had left the program, the situation would likely still be the same. While it’s true a team can replace a player who willingly leaves a program with another scholarship player, Hurley has called that “bush league” and said that’s not how he wants to run a program.

Akok Akok’s next chapter begins at UConn, as a walk-on — for now
 
Chief00 said:
And the candidate to voluntarily leave is now suspended indefinitely in his last semester.
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He got one more semester of scholarship-paid college, he lost the coaches help getting a job after college. His choice.

HooperScooper said:
Yup.

And even if Williams had left the program, the situation would likely still be the same. While it’s true a team can replace a player who willingly leaves a program with another scholarship player, Hurley has called that “bush league” and said that’s not how he wants to run a program.

Akok Akok’s next chapter begins at UConn, as a walk-on — for now
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Hurley said that after the decisions were already made. It's easy to take credit for being virtuous when you had no choice about it.
 
pj said:
He got one more semester of scholarship-paid college, he lost the coaches help getting a job after college. His choice.



Hurley said that after the decisions were already made. It's easy to take credit for being virtuous when you had no choice about it.
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That's true, but considering he didn't run anybody off when he took the job and easily could have, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Also, I doubt he's stupid enough to box himself in in the future. There's a decent chance this sort of opportunity could present itself again down the road, and now he's on the record saying he would never do it.
 
pj said:
Hurley said that after the decisions were already made. It's easy to take credit for being virtuous when you had no choice about it.
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What are you talking about? He's been singing the same song since day 1 on the job at UCONN.

Unless you are calling him inauthentic and disingenuous, two qualities that are not normally associated with his name.
 
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