OT: Brandon Austin suspended for season

[seanmc94]

Challenge? I guess you don't follow UConn basketball, but a few years ago we had something called laptopgate. AJ Price, a McD's all American PG was suspended for a full season and Marcus Williams another terrific PG was suspended for a semester. The suspensions probably cost UConn a Final 4 [were beat by a basket in elite eight] and maybe the 1996 national championship! You seem like a good guy, but just know that being a UConn fan since the mid sixties I know this PC/UConn "rivalry" better than most. PC was the best team in NE back then and that has changed for a long time now. As a New London HS grad I wish nothing but the best for Kris Dunn-he's a great player and person. BTW my granddaughter has applied to UConn, URI, Brown etc [not PC though LOL]. Good luck this year and going forward.

You actually made my point. Price and Williams were suspended bc they were arrested and charged with a crime. Eventually they were exonerated on a technicality; but I'm assuming the suspension was based on the fact that they were arrested and charged with a crime. The PC frosh haven't been charged with anything; in fact to this point, the police have investigated and decided there is nothing there.

 

[mauconnfan]

You actually made my point. Price and Williams were suspended bc they were arrested and charged with a crime. Eventually they were exonerated on a technicality; but I'm assuming the suspension was based on the fact that they were arrested and charged with a crime. The PC frosh haven't been charged with anything; in fact to this point, the police have investigated and decided there is nothing there.

Just in case you were late to the game, "criminal charges were dismissed" on both……….another thing sean we have no idea what Austin "wasn't" charged for and you know why, he's at PC not UConn…….if it were at UConn it would be all over the hordes papers but he's at PC and the one writer is on vacation!

 

[his dudeness]

My bold, unsubstantiated prediction is that he transfers shortly, and not here.

 

[Yonick]

Austin was nothing more than a "fall back" recruit we pursued after losing out on XRM. If he transfers it won't be UConn. We don't need him anymore.

 

[seanmc94]

Austin was nothing more than a "fall back" recruit we pursued after losing out on XRM. If he transfers it won't be UConn. We don't need him anymore.

A consensus top 50 player was a "fall back" recruit? I love revisionist history. So the boneyard monitors the signing day announcement and blows up for a week over fall back recruits?

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

A consensus top 50 player was a "fall back" recruit? I love revisionist history. So the boneyard monitors the signing day announcement and blows up for a week over fall back recruits?

It blows my mind that you don't have anything better to do.

 

[3uconn]

A consensus top 50 player was a "fall back" recruit? I love revisionist history. So the boneyard monitors the signing day announcement and blows up for a week over fall back recruits?

He was a fall back recruit. Once UConn dropped out of the XRM race which now looks to be due to grades they started going after Austin when he de committed from Penn State.

This is the Boneyard. 95% of the people are crazy and so are you. We had 30 ten page threads about a recruit we were after for a couple weeks. "Kasongo Commits to Oregon" "What is Kasongoing?" "Kasongo Kasongoes Oregon"

If you expect to get respect from fans of another team when your team hasn't been good in however many years and you make idiotic statements your on the wrong board. I don't even understand why you continually come over here.

 

[Yonick]

A consensus top 50 player was a "fall back" recruit? I love revisionist history. So the boneyard monitors the signing day announcement and blows up for a week over fall back recruits?

Deal with that Sean!!! After XRM choose Fla. UConn went after Austin. UConn probably would've gotten Austin if Ollie wasn't on a 7 month contract.
Bottom line...nobody has him...UConn doesn't need him....PC does...

 

[his dudeness]

Update: He's gone. blessing for us we got Dham and Prince instead

 

[alexd]

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...er-suspended-leaving-oregon-penn-state-temple

 

[mauconnfan]

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...er-suspended-leaving-oregon-penn-state-temple

They make it sound like he can play right away……..

 

[joober jones]

I must admit Cooley is at least trying to turn around the ship. Too bad its an ocean liner in a bathtub. Anyway he at least is not putting players in front of the team, at any cost. I respect that considering the desperate situation at that school.

That's my new favorite simile. I'm going to use it whenever possible.

 

[alexd]

They make it sound like he can play right away……..

Really.....pretty funny.

He'd be eligible 2nd semester next season, right?

 

[huskiesnyc]

If I remember correctly didn't Joseph Young also originally commit to PC? It would be pretty funny to see Oregon play PC in one of their obscure November tournaments and get owned by Young, Austin and of course Kasongo!!

 

[mauconnfan]

If I remember correctly didn't Joseph Young also originally commit to PC? It would be pretty funny to see Oregon play PC in one of their obscure November tournaments and get owned by Young, Austin and of course Kasongo!!

Not "owned" nyc you meant to say "Kasongo'd"

 

[Yonick]

So, what the heck did this kid do at PC to get suspended? There was a second player suspended with Austin. What's his status?

 

[TRest]

So, what the heck did this kid do at PC to get suspended? There was a second player suspended with Austin. What's his status?

Based on what PC fans are posting, he either raped a kennel full of puppies or helped a little old lady across the street.

 

[mauconnfan]

They are so irrelevant the one writer who covers PC can't get the story!! LOL……..the horde would have had the kid crucified and on ESPN by now…….

 

[upstater]

Here's an odd APR question. If the school doesn't toss you out for a violation (expelled players are not counted against your APR) but you elect to transfer on your own (in which case you do count against the APR), then can the school apply for a waiver because of the violation that you committed?

Seems to me that he should now count against PC's APR, and that PC may have made a mistake (as far as the APR is concerned) by suspending him instead of expelling him.

 

[Yonick]

Last I knew, PC needs an APR score of around 950, this spring, in order to be eligible for the 2015 tourney. If they don't make the tourney this year, and, are ineligible in 2015 it could be devastating for that program.

 

[bmo22]

Last I knew, PC needs an APR score of around 950, this spring, in order to be eligible for the 2015 tourney. If they don't make the tourney this year, and, are ineligible in 2015 it could be devastating for that program.

PC doesn't make the tournament, so I doubt being ineligible for it will make them any worse off.

 

[huskiesnyc]

PC is dangerously close to being banned for APR if not 2015 then 2016. Cooley is doing a bang up job both on and off the court. He needs stop focusing on his new weight loss program and learn how to coach. He also needs a hat!

 

[upstater]

PC doesn't make the tournament, so I doubt being ineligible for it will make them any worse off.

With no prospect of making the tourney, it will hurt recruiting (where they do pretty well) and it can also lead to transfers for seniors and underclassmen who don't want to use up a year of eligibility with no prospect of a postseason.

 

[bmo22]

With no prospect of making the tourney, it will hurt recruiting (where they do pretty well) and it can also lead to transfers for seniors and underclassmen who don't want to use up a year of eligibility with no prospect of a postseason.

I forgot sarcasm can't be heard on the internet. Obviously it would have an effect on the program, but it doesn't hurt their chances of making the tournament. Can't make it with a lack of eligibility or a lack of talent, or both. At least PC is consistent.

 

[caw]

I feel bad for Chukwu. Those that spurn UConn for PC have not been lucky there.

Is this year three of Cooley? Scary for them is that their best players are seniors and Henton. If PC is ineligible that would give Henton a great excuse to use the Oriakhi clause.