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upstater said:
Apparently, bigtime 2016 recruit Skal Labissiere is trying to enroll at Memphis for the spring because his handlers messed up his high school eligibility and he has nowhere to play. In fact, he won't be playing at all, nor will he be going to school this year. Which begs the question about how in the world a kid from Haiti can come to the USA without completing his schooling, and still enroll at a university.
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Is he trying to enroll in a university? i thought he was trying to enroll at Memphis.
 
Look M- All of us want U of M to do well and you are a good addition to the BY (you might be the only AAC poster from another team I don't ignore).

But if your school does what it does and does it well- no need to post every enomolly when someone tries to get eligible.
 
There's a lot of questionable stuff going on there no doubt. But it is what it is right? Next......

Funny thing is they're getting kids in who can't enroll at ours and others but Geno can't say congrats to a fellow Philly girl that's 12 years old.......NCAA is beyond screwed up
 
I'd rather bash UK (c'mon man, Squid?)or Dook (hype city BABY) or BC (then again, why bother) or Donna SheLieLa and the Canes or even the best college basketball program in the country every December, CUSE, but leave our conference brothers alone

C'mon Tigers, my new 2nd favorite team in the country, replacing Louisville.
 
Scot-e said:
Look M- All of us want U of M to do well and you are a good addition to the BY (you might be the only AAC poster from another team I don't ignore).

But if your school does what it does and does it well- no need to post every enomolly when someone tries to get eligible.
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I just noticed the headline in the paper because I went there. Skal is in a tough spot. He's not a Memphis kid (from Haiti) and his handler is out for himself.
 
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I'm not going to conjure any moral outrage over "standards", but I do question whether consistently signing kids with character/eligibility/academic concerns is the best way to build a basketball team. Sign one or two kids with a couple question marks, and you're probably alright. But if you make a habit out of targeting kids other schools are afraid to touch...you're setting yourself up for self-destruction.

To be clear, I have no idea if this is the case with Memphis or not. I'm not in the position to judge anybody else's character. But disciplining 19 and 20 year old kids is tough enough when they aren't documented discontents or troublemakers, and if the strategy is simply to accumulate the most possible talent at any cost, I don't see it translating to victories.
 
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champs99and04 said:
I'm not going to conjure any moral outrage over "standards", but I do question whether consistently signing kids with character/eligibility/academic concerns is the best way to build a basketball team. Sign one or two kids with a couple question marks, and you're probably alright. But if you make a habit out of targeting kids other schools are afraid to touch...you're setting yourself up for self-destruction.

To be clear, I have no idea if this is the case with Memphis or not. I'm not in the position to judge anybody else's character. But disciplining 19 and 20 year old kids is tough enough when they aren't documented discontents or troublemakers, and if the strategy is simply to accumulate the most possible talent at any cost, I don't see it translating to victories.
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Pastner suspends kids for cursing and being late to the team bus. Hell, he kicked Five star player Jelan Kendrick off the team for being a head case.

He takes discipline, and second chances, very seriously.
 
UofMemphis said:
Pastner suspends kids for cursing and being late to the team bus. Hell, he kicked Five star player Jelan Kendrick off the team for being a head case.

He takes discipline, and second chances, very seriously.
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The cursing is his choice, kind of strange to me but I guess good for him!
 
mauconnfan said:
The cursing is his choice, kind of strange to me but I guess good for him!
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If you screw up and yell an expletive...whatever.

If you screw up, a coach corrects you, and you tell that coach to "go F himself"

That's totally different.
 
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