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is there a reason why the NCAA waited till the last possible second to figure out if he was eligible or not?
 
HuskyfanDan said:
not trying to get into a heated argument. we can all agree we want him playing. lastly the baggage he brought was not his attitude, everyone knew about that. the baggage was a rummor that the guy controlling his recruitment was a interesting guy to put it nicely.
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Yea, we can all agree on the basics at least. Who was controlling his recruitment, Reggie Rose? Thats who I thought and if so, I can't see D Rose's brother being involved in shady stuff because I imagine he is set monetarily wise.
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
is there a reason why the NCAA waited till the last possible second to figure out if he was eligible or not?
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Very often, the review is ongoing and the school just doesn't state it publicly. Then it comes down to game #1 and the process hasn't been completed yet and they are forced to make a general statement on why the kid isn't going to play. Very often, it's not a case of the school getting a call from the NCAA the day of the first game and saying "hold him out"...
 
Gavin Keefe has some Kyle Muncy quotes on twitter..."We hope the review will be completed in a timely manner. We anticipate Ryan will suit up for us. We just don't know when."
 
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1. We were not that involved with Ryan- he came here after UWV took JH- it's not like we were after him for years or something.
2. For the first time ever I am happy we have a quality walk on PG in the mix.
3. The NCAA is getting close to being worthless. They seem to pick and chose with no clear method what they are going to look at and what they are going to ignore. "HEY NCAA SPEND 5 MINUTES LOOKING AT THE SQUID AND UK AND YOU CAN STAY BUSY FOR YEARS."

This is just plain wrong.
 
what the heck could the NCAA be reviewing if it has nothing to do with academics? seems odd to me, but i guess nothing should surprise us at this point...
 
HuskyfanDan said:
i understand that, i'm not stupid.
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Between this thread and the one you started about the problems with the frontcourt and who will start, somehow, you are not very convincing.
 
if hes still not playing by the arkansas game then be worried.. until then enjoy the cake schedule and get to know our lovely walkon nose breaker!
 
Good reason never to laugh at other team's sufferings.

NCAA at it again the day off the game. Can this please get resolved quickly?
 
doggydaddy said:
Between this thread and the one you started about the problems with the frontcourt and who will start, somehow, you are not very convincing.
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really buddy? you still don't understand that thread? at the time we were looking at our 5 big guys, with 3 of them being hurt(ad-face/wolf-groin/brad-ankle?) and not playing. now its said ad has been cleared for the record. these exb games and early games are for our team to develope chemistry and develope player rotations. see who works well with each other and what lineups are best for what situations. when your missing 3 of your 5 big guys that hurts the early building. whats not to get about that?
edit- maybe the title of that thread was misleading but several ppl got what i was talking about and agreed that it was a worthy topic of discussion as we saw. sorry i can't edit a thread title for you.

now 2night were def going to be without our backup pg and atleast 2 of the big guys(not sure about ad playing...), yea were still a great team but this is just going to delay the overall building of this team.
 
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This game should be less challenging then practice against the B team. I would not worry that we have a few players getting limited minutes at this point. Our D is going to be wayyyyyy to much for them and while RB could use the time on the court and Wolf could use the time against a cup cake or two- it is nothing to get our panties in a wad over.

Heck I heard Quse looked like total crap in their game this week. Issues all over the place. I did hear Melo improved a good bit from last year so that should make him an average 7 footer if last year was any indication.
 
Peacefrog said:
For the love of Pete, can't we just have a "normal" pre/off season just once? Maybe this is the new normal for us. I hope it is nothing but either way are we now going to get to see this scroll across the screen on ESPN all day?
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I second that one. We can't seem to go for very long w/out some sort of bad news.

Although it's not a bid deal for a player to miss a preseason game, but the longer this goes where the notations that JC would like to get worked out can't be worked out because players are not available the longer it's going to take to get this team playing at a high level.

I have tix for today's game and was especially hoping to see the newbies. Now it's not Boatshow and who knows if AD will play much if at all. Ugh!

Big picture wise, I hope they have the full compliment of players soon. I also hope they have enough tonight o man the point and not have to play Napier too much considering it's been reported that he's banged up a bit.
 
I just hope the NCAA doesn't take as long with this as they did with Charley V's situation.
 
HuskyfanDan said:
really buddy? you still don't understand that thread? at the time we were looking at our 5 big guys, with 3 of them being hurt(ad-face/wolf-groin/brad-ankle?) and not playing. now its said ad has been cleared for the record. these exb games and early games are for our team to develope chemistry and develope player rotations. see who works well with each other and what lineups are best for what situations. when your missing 3 of your 5 big guys that hurts the early building. whats not to get about that?
edit- maybe the title of that thread was misleading but several ppl got what i was talking about and agreed that it was a worthy topic of discussion as we saw. sorry i can't edit a thread title for you.

now 2night were def going to be without our backup pg and atleast 2 of the big guys(not sure about ad playing...), yea were still a great team but this is just going to delay the overall building of this team.
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Yeah, really buddy.

With the weak OOC schedule, they have plenty of time to develop chemistry. And your worry about Wolf and Bradley is funny. They will barely see minutes.

I understood that thread. I though it was WAY overstated.
 
The haters are out in full force on the espn article
 
I guess when it's finally revealed he will turn out to be JC's daddy
 
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Ugh. WTF? What is with the timing of this? Was it because UConn was working behind the scenes on the eligibility question, and finally had to announce it when not done in time for the game?

Why can they not just announce what they are reviewing?

Sick of this .
 
love the footer there mr tommyboy goes well with foster the peoples pumped up kicks
 
Scot-e said:
This game should be less challenging then practice against the B team. I would not worry that we have a few players getting limited minutes at this point. Our D is going to be wayyyyyy to much for them and while RB could use the time on the court and Wolf could use the time against a cup cake or two- it is nothing to get our panties in a wad over.

Heck I heard Quse looked like total crap in their game this week. Issues all over the place. I did hear Melo improved a good bit from last year so that should make him an average 7 footer if last year was any indication.
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I watched Cuse last night and no they did not look great, but in a way it's hard to look good against a team that bad. One thing that needs mentioning is that Melo did not look that good. Cuse fans (who are desperate for him not to be a total disaster again this year) will say that he looked vastly improved because he lost weight and is slightly faster, dunked a few lobs in the first few minutes, and made a few wide open jumpers over shorter guys... But honestly, if you google image the really overweight guy* that was guarding him then you will understand why these were not impressive in any way... Melo didn't show me anything that suggests he can score against a middle-of-the-road D1 defender, nevermind a frontline like Uconn's...

*In defense of the really overweight guy, he is a very good basketball player and is probably reaching 90-100% of his potential. In a way, this is far more impressive than a guy like Joseph who reaches at best 60% of his potential...
 
ericsandiego said:
what the heck could the NCAA be reviewing if it has nothing to do with academics? seems odd to me, but i guess nothing should surprise us at this point...
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I was thinking the same thing as soon as i heard about it. i also dont think its a discipline issue because wouldnt that be a Uconn decision instead of an NCAA one? Lets just hope its nothing. Charlie had to sit out the first 6 games or so while they reviewed his eligibility too i remember
 
Ts5034 said:
I was thinking the same thing as soon as i heard about it. i also dont think its a discipline issue because wouldnt that be a Uconn decision instead of an NCAA one? Lets just hope its nothing. Charlie had to sit out the first 6 games or so while they reviewed his eligibility too i remember
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If it's not academics then it's almost certainly related to amateurism. Could be something as minor as the Drummond shoe commercial thing, or could be more serious.
 
UConn990411 said:
The NCAA really needs to **** off.

When you've already cleared a player, but then decide to review his eligibility the day of the team's first exhibition game, you really are an incompetent organization that needs to be done away with. This isn't as bad as that story about the Providence kid (at least no yet), but it's ridiculous nonetheless.
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If they decide to review a kid's eligibility now, it is because of new information they've received. Nothing to do with incompetence. (The NCAA's regulations, btw, are all requested and signed off on by its member schools. They don't make them up on their own.
 
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This f'in sucks. It would be nice to go one dam week without something negative like this popping up. What's it going to be next week? I thought tonight was the night where we would FINALLY get to see our full team on display against somebody and now we get more of this shet from the NCAA. Whether it's their fault or not, I'm way tired of this crap, and I wish this program could just have ONE normal off-season where we aren't recieving all this negative press.
 
stamfordhusky said:
If they decide to review a kid's eligibility now, it is because of new information they've received. Nothing to do with incompetence. (The NCAA's regulations, btw, are all requested and signed off on by its member schools. They don't make them up on their own.
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Then it could be another school tipped them off to something they found out. And it happened shortly before the season began.
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
is there a reason why the NCAA waited till the last possible second to figure out if he was eligible or not?
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Is there a reason why this routinely happens to us? Remember Charlie V.?
 
Didn't West Virginia sign another guard instead of Boatright? I wonder if there was an issue that they became aware of that led them to go in another direction? Also, you have to wonder if West Virginia waited until now to report it to mess with UCONN either from a competitive standpoint or because of the Big East-Big 12 flap. It's all speculation but until we have specifics all we have is gossip. If I had to guess I would say it may be an issue with his handlers and extra benefits or something but who knows. When I saw he may have a connection to Derek Rose's brother that caused me concern. I sure hope it's nothing.
CL82 said:
Is there a reason why this routinely happens to us? Remember Charlie V.?
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UCweCONN said:
Didn't West Virginia sign another guard instead of Boatright? I wonder if there was an issue that they became aware of that led them to go in another direction? Also, you have to wonder if West Virginia waited until now to report it to mess with UCONN either from a competitive standpoint or because of the Big East-Big 12 flap. It's all speculation but until we have specifics all we have is gossip. If I had to guess I would say it may be an issue with his handlers and extra benefits or something but who knows. When I saw he may have a connection to Derek Rose's brother that caused me concern. I sure hope it's nothing.
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If I remember correctly, Jabarie Hinds committed to West Virginia only about a week after Boatright did. So I doubt there was anything about Boatright that "made them go in another direction".

I think the best bet here is likely what has been mentioned earlier in the thread. Boatright was probably late at filling out some paperwork like Dyson and Beverly two years ago. They had to sit out the first exhibition game out of nowhere and were promptly cleared after they finished up the appropriate paperwork. The problem here is that with all the bad news in recent weeks, we assume the worst until we hear otherwise.
 
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