There's quite a bit of chatter about P'Allen Stinnett getting involved in an altercation and getting punched in the face...
http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=twitter&lng=&q=%22p%27allen+stinnett%22
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Indiana's #1 target...Will Yeguete has now dropped Indiana and will decide between Georgia Tech & Florida...
so the recruiting focus has reportedly now shifted to Dwight McCombs and maybe Cody Larson... and both of them are also expected to decide (or narrow their decisions) pretty soon.....
That means John Wilkins will know within a couple days, maybe as soon as tomorrow if he has an Indiana offer....
This is just more really tough news for Ton Crean at Indiana...every single kid he's chased hard after and offered for the past year has snubbed Indiana and chosen elsewhere.
Didn't it used to be that when Indiana offered, kids instantly dropped every other thought and jumped at the chance to be a Hoosier...
this just proves how fall IU has fallen, that they are having trouble even appealing to the leftover-types of recruits...
we're not talking 4-Star and 5-Star guys here!!! Every one of these kid is basically a mid-major caliber recruit who might be getting a left-over offer because of other players leaving early for the NBA (as just happened at both Georgia Tech & Georgetown).
Now Indiana, instead of using their prestige, tradition, and name to draw recruits, are mainly hawking their "immediate playing time"...and that's about it....sad that such a storied program is reduced to begging and using the promise of being able to step right on the floor and play right away as their best item on the menu!!
But I guess they've done it to themselves with their greed and cheating.....
It's not Tom Crean's doing - he simply finds himself in the mess created by both Kelvin Sampson and an organization and fan base so filled with greed for wins and 5-Star recruits, that they were willing to sell their souls..
One last note.....however, the NCAA actually went quite easy on Indiana as one would expect.....being a BCS school - all of Indiana's problems are self inflicted!! They landed horrible recruits who did drugs, flunked out, left after one year, and had bad enough grades to cost scholarships.
You can't play victim here - and don't blame NCAA! this is all of your own doing Hoosiers and fans!
Is BU's recent assistant coach hire a good hire???
I will, of course support whoever our coaches are (unlike some)...and he has my 100% backing because I am a Bradley FAN...
And I will be his 31 fan since that's what I think is the calling when you label yourself a Braves fan!!
However, I guess what blows me away is the clear hypocrisy of a small handful of people who have been whining for months about a our assistant coach situation, and who have been yapping non-stop about what we need to have as qualities in an assistant..
tell me, have we not heard those demands for...
--a proven winner - a guy from a BIG TIME program - well known...his name will immediately give BU some credibility on the recruiting trail
--a guy who's helped land other top recruits
--a guy who has even been a winner as a head coach, and who has experience even as an assistant helping produce winners...not someone who is an underling at some team that is at or near the bottom of some low ranked conference -- least of all a guy whose team just finished dead last in a lightweight conference -- a guy who might have been on the hot seat at the school he's coming to BU from!!
--a guy who comes from a winning program that's a highly respected program, one that puts points on the board, one that draws well, one that has a NAME.
Not a guy from a program that has either finished DEAD LAST or next to last in every season he's been at his current position.
--someone with current and significant ties to the midwest
--someone with a solid base in Chicago that'll help us recruit there
--a guy who can coach BIG MEN..and certainly NOT a guy who has trouble getting anyone with talent to go to his current school - and whose teams have trouble scoring more than 45 or 46 points in any of their games this season..
--a guy whose name carries some weight so that we can outrecruit the Butlers, SIU, ISU, and Chicago schools...
--a guy whose teams wherever he's been have been consistent winners
Had I proposed a few weeks ago that we bring in a guy with these credentials, I'd have been absolutely slain...
yet now we have the very people who'd have slain me calling this a great hire...
so what's behind the hypocrisy??
If we had 200 applicants, then I wonder what were the credentials of the 199 who were rejected? Were they assistants at even lower programs than Army?
Seriously - there were endless bashes of Eric Buescher....and I wonder what would have transpired if someone proposed bringing in Jim Molinari as a new assistant...yet both of those guys' credentials have appeal that would obviously place them ahead of those rejected 199 as well.
In the end it just puts more burden on the head coach if we have assistants with NO connection to the Chicago area or to the large base of prospects in Illinois and the neighboring states where BU has drawn so many of their players from.
So - let's see if we can now land some army-caliber recruits from out east....and then let's see how long before the very people whining to get rid of EB start whining about the new situation....as predictable as death and taxes....
Worst "reports" and "facts" seen on message boards lately....all guaranteed true by the experts...
#6 - John Wilkins has verbaled to Iowa State and it's a strong commitment, meaning he's no longer considering Bradley. He is going to be their BEST player!
#5 - lots of other players besides Eddren are looking to leave, maybe even Taylor Brown, Jordan Prosser, and DSE..
#4 - now that Eric Buescher is gone, look for even more staff shakeups and firings
#3 - BU was out of the running for John Wilkins more than a year ago
#2 - Coach Les has been on vacation for the past month and hasn't spent a minute out on the recruiting trail!
#1 - Jim Les has been fired - bought out for $650,000, there's even a detailed analysis of the buyout paid out over 3 years....
Yeah........the jokes keep coming, but the traffic at sites that report this stuff has come to a crawl...
Sometimes 2-3 days with nothing...no wonder......
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(this next part has been re-edited out, so I hope you got your screen shots all taken while I had it up there.... ;)
So is John Calipari just a high paid failure??
http://bit.ly/bPtU2d
Here's a list you don't want to be on....
http://listverse.com/2007/09/09/top-10-ugliest-female-celebrities/
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