(01-19-2016 08:03 AM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(01-19-2016 07:56 AM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(01-19-2016 07:44 AM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(01-18-2016 11:48 PM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  

(01-18-2016 10:22 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  Wow, lots of assumptions here. So because he's a black basketball player his parents must be poor and he must be too dumb to earn a merit scholarship?

Yup, I'm sure that's what he meant! There is NEVER any funny business going on in the recruiting/careers of high profile college basketball players.

lol yea talk about making something out of nothing with that reading of his post. He is a post graduate of HS so it's a fair assumption that he's only there for sports since I believe I read he was academic all district. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the basketball factories give athletic scholarships and don't even bother to call it merit.

Some universities do that too.

Well I said it like that because in some states (Alabama) the private schools don't have their own leagues and play against the public schools. The bigger ones like John Caroll used to give "academic scholarships" because they weren't allowed to give athletic ones. Eventually they got in trouble and every student is now counted as 1.7 students in the class divisions which is why my school with classes of 70 kids played 3A-4A. I remember in 8th or 9th grade I was barely over 5ft and our rival private school had recruited a kid from Africa that was 6'10+ That was my last season of basketball..

A promising young hoops career cut short before it had even started. Such a shame!

:(