If we don't play wake, unc, and duke twice each then they are doing it wrong.

12/16/2011 2:55:32 PM

South Carolina writing the book on what not to do in the last minute of a game trailing.

12/17/2011 2:01:29 PM

is it just me, or is Cody Zeller already better as a freshman than Tyler is as a senior? though Tyler might be a junior if his frail ass got a medical redshirt one of his first years

12/17/2011 5:18:18 PM

^cody is much better.

12/17/2011 5:19:39 PM

His game against us was better than any game I've seen Tyler play and watching him today and against UK, it wasn't a fluke

Although you have to factor in that Tyler is coached by Roy Williams

12/17/2011 5:49:05 PM

ive seen a lot of posts about roy's suit. anyone got pics?

12/17/2011 8:37:01 PM

Andre Drummond had his first beast game of the year, granted only against Holy Cross (though they did beat an ACC team by 20 earlier this year). 24 points on 11-12 shooting, 8 rebounds and 5 blocks. If he can continue to improve he'll probably go first overall in the draft next year.

[Edited on December 18, 2011 at 9:18 PM. Reason : wasnt cody a higher rated recruit? and both are way better than the black sheep zeller from ND]

12/18/2011 9:18:00 PM

That ACC team was Boston College, in case anyone didn't know and was impressed.

12/18/2011 10:00:23 PM

St. Joe's is refusing to grant grad student waiver to a former player

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/basketball/ncaa/12/19/todd.obrien/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t12_a2

also, apparently wes miller (of munchkin land) is currently unc-g's interim head coach.

12/19/2011 2:15:02 PM

Davidson about to beat Kansas

12/19/2011 11:09:24 PM

Davidson 80
Kansas 74

Great job CATS

12/19/2011 11:15:00 PM

12/19/2011 11:37:38 PM

We should pull an upset over a ranked team

12/20/2011 12:29:45 AM

Charleston scaring Louisville right now...

CU 55
UL 53

6 minutes left

12/20/2011 10:38:49 PM

Louisville closed well, ended up winning by 6 or 7

12/20/2011 11:19:06 PM

So UConn announced today that Drummond is a walk-on this year and Bradley got the scholarship. Drummond is "in the process of acquiring a loan".

This doesn't sound fishy at all.

12/22/2011 11:57:14 AM

It's not if you read the article. Bradley gave his up but Drummond said hed pay (not too hard to get a loan when youre all but guaranteed to be a top 3 pick). They had to go through compliance to make sure a recruited player can be a walk on which is why it took a while.

You can question whether Bradley was "willingly" going to give up his scholly originally but there is nothing wrong with Drummond.

[Edited on December 22, 2011 at 12:14 PM. Reason : And they are on probation which brings more NCAA scrutiny anyway]

12/22/2011 12:13:38 PM

no. that sounds fishy.

12/22/2011 12:15:10 PM

Oh. Sound argument.

12/22/2011 12:22:26 PM

unless calhoun has decided he wants to win another national title and then retire and not give a fuck about what happens to uconn, there's no way he's giving someone an illegal scholarship right now.

12/22/2011 12:25:09 PM

Edit: i know there's an "explanation", but it just seems weird that one of the better college players in the country is going to be a walk-on. Can you really get a loan based on the speculation that you'll be making millions in the NBA next year? What if you got injured?


[Edited on December 22, 2011 at 12:30 PM. Reason : sorry, this was supposed to be an edit to my earlier post]

12/22/2011 12:28:00 PM

It was fully vetted from a scholarship/walkon perspective . I guess you can say that you don't know where Drummond is paying from, which is fair, but like I said, what bank wouldnt give a consensus top 3 pick with injury insurance a loan?

[Edited on December 22, 2011 at 12:30 PM. Reason : ^ the insurance helps make it more of a "sure thing"]

12/22/2011 12:29:27 PM

"The bank of uconn boosters"

12/22/2011 12:35:06 PM

so Georgia Tech lost to Mercer

65-59

[Edited on December 22, 2011 at 9:05 PM. Reason : ]

12/22/2011 9:04:11 PM

Even worse,
Clemson got crushed by UTEP.

12/22/2011 9:12:12 PM

I dunno if that's a lot worse

UTEP won 61-48



but MERCER?

12/22/2011 9:17:02 PM

memphis...done forever

12/22/2011 9:18:28 PM

definitely a memphis meltdown.


couldn't be happening to a nicer coach.

12/22/2011 10:38:06 PM

even if you're a big UConn homer I don't see how someone could look at the Drummond situation and not think it's a little sketchy

12/22/2011 10:50:30 PM

Quote :

"It was fully vetted from a scholarship/walkon perspective . I guess you can say that you don't know where Drummond is paying from, which is fair, but like I said, what bank wouldnt give a consensus top 3 pick with injury insurance a loan?"

When the fuck has this ever happened?? If UNC/Duke did this with a recruit, we (and you) would be all over it...and don't even try to deny it. Louisville is doing it with two players right now...but one is the younger brother of an NBA player (JR Smith) and the other player's dad is a friggin brain surgeon.

I've been in Connecticut for a week...and everyone is laughing about it up here. I've never been an anti-UConn guy...but this situation is ridiculous.

12/22/2011 10:54:47 PM

UCONN has a near perfect track record of compliance, so I'm going to give Calhoun the benefit of the doubt.

12/22/2011 10:55:59 PM

How many of those do you get?

I only ask because http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-basketball/2011/2/23/2009469/jim-calhoun-suspension-uconn-basketball-nate-miles

[Edited on December 23, 2011 at 8:40 PM. Reason : .]

12/23/2011 8:39:48 PM

undefeated louisville just now getting the lead on western kentucky. 52-50 with 6:30 to go.

12/23/2011 8:45:19 PM

I'm sure the NCAA is just not even worrying about it or checking in to it since UConn has never been in trouble. Not like they are on probation or anything and under heavy scrutiny. Do you really think that if something is off here it wouldn't be investigated? They JUST got dinged by the NCAA. If there is something going on it will come out and they will be punished as they should. It's not like because Rece Davis is boys with Jim Calhoun the NCAA will turn a blind eye.

UConn has done plenty of sketchy stuff not limited to Miles (but also not much more than most other schools save a handful have done over the past 30 years). I just don't think the Drummond thing is knowing what I know. It WAS more sketch forcing a guy who IS NOT going to be a NBA player to give up his scholly knowing full well he wouldn't have the means to pay back any aid/loan that he would have to take.

And, lol, they fired all their compliance staff and hired new. Talk about the wrong people taking the sword...

[Edited on December 24, 2011 at 9:31 AM. Reason : x]

12/24/2011 9:30:45 AM

So, is it just them doing an end-around the loss of the scholarship? Because if that's the case I'm surprised they're allowed.

Didn't UConn have a scrub to axe for that?

Still sounds off even if it's perfectly ok under NCAA rules. I wonder if Dummond is having to go through the normal student aid process or if he's just being allowed to get the quick private loans y'all are talking about.

[Edited on December 24, 2011 at 10:21 AM. Reason : .]

12/24/2011 10:21:15 AM

Of course it's a way around the scholarships being taken away. That's pretty obvious.

To my knowledge, from what I've read, a recruited player can NOT get any aid from the school in any way in his first year, so it has to be all private. Which for a potential #1 overall pick who has injury insurance that shouldn't be very hard...

I'm not naive, I realize UConn has had it's fair share of run-ins with the NCAA and other things, but I just don't see this one. They are under such heavy scrutiny it just doesn't make sense to make sure this is fully vetted.

12/24/2011 10:36:20 AM

Tony Bennett losing 4th player from his first recruiting class via transfer.

12/24/2011 7:49:30 PM

Quote :

"Which for a potential #1 overall pick who has injury insurance that shouldn't be very hard..."

i understand how this follows the rules, but for a kid to pay for college on a loan that is based on his future earnings in the nba is objectively different than the standard walk-on scenario.

i'm not saying anything should happen, but the ncaa has to be peeved about this.

12/24/2011 8:47:13 PM

Clemson loses two of three in Hawaii (UTEP & Hawaii) and southern Illinois took them to ot. how bad is the acc this year?

[Edited on December 26, 2011 at 12:19 AM. Reason : ()]

12/26/2011 12:18:37 AM

I thought that clemson coach was supposed to be hot shit

12/26/2011 12:13:11 PM

Vandy up 33-8 over #13 Marquette with 7:30 left in the first half.

12/29/2011 9:45:39 PM

is georgia tech still trailing fordham? and BC got waxed... again

12/29/2011 9:48:38 PM

Quote :

"I thought that clemson coach was supposed to be hot shit"

?

12/29/2011 10:08:53 PM

Harvard is a very good team this year. BC was 12 point underdogs.

12/29/2011 10:09:30 PM

BC is going to be one of the worst ACC teams of our lifetime this year. They are flat out terrible. Maybe the 8th best team in New England (Providence, Harvard, UMass, UConn, Holy Cross, BU, Fairfield)

[Edited on December 29, 2011 at 10:36 PM. Reason : 9th? Is URI any good this year?]

12/29/2011 10:36:21 PM

no

12/29/2011 10:44:25 PM

Haha, wow, URI is 1-11 I see. When did they fall off the cliff? Wasn't it only like 2-3 years ago that little white dude was dropping 30 on Duke in Cameron? BC plays URI next. Battle Royale.

12/29/2011 10:48:26 PM

I guess our loss to Vandy isn't looking too bad right now

12/29/2011 11:00:41 PM

Vandy was missing their best player for awhile, not sure if they got him back yet, but i think they will make some noise the rest of the season.

12/29/2011 11:06:41 PM

Live by the 3 offense is bound to have a big win or 2 every year

12/29/2011 11:16:53 PM