Hey, what's a school that can't catch a break? Your DePaul Blue Demons.

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/6097

Allegedly he--Barry Larkin's son, by the way--was one of their prime recruits. This was after spending the summer with the team...wonder if the "medical condition" was homesickness.

(08-04-2011 04:31 PM)justinslot Wrote:  Hey, what's a school that can't catch a break? Your DePaul Blue Demons.

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/6097

Allegedly he--Barry Larkin's son, by the way--was one of their prime recruits. This was after spending the summer with the team...wonder if the "medical condition" was homesickness.

I always questioned that commitment

(08-04-2011 04:31 PM)justinslot Wrote:  Hey, what's a school that can't catch a break? Your DePaul Blue Demons.

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/6097

Allegedly he--Barry Larkin's son, by the way--was one of their prime recruits. This was after spending the summer with the team...wonder if the "medical condition" was homesickness.

This has topic was blowing up in the DePaul message boards since early this morning, it just got confirmed. Shane was a nice get, but noone really seen him as an immediate impact player. One issue that has been brought up is whether or not he would get enough playing time behind brandon young, plus Billy Garrett Jr. is committing in 2013 and OP has been heavily recruiting top guards. Shanes pretty undersized, then again kemba was too but shane is nowhere near kembas level.

Other than that we wish him the bust of luck in his future.

(08-04-2011 04:31 PM)justinslot Wrote:  Hey, what's a school that can't catch a break? Your DePaul Blue Demons.

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/6097

Allegedly he--Barry Larkin's son, by the way--was one of their prime recruits. This was after spending the summer with the team...wonder if the "medical condition" was homesickness.

No clue what his medical issues are...but hope he gets the care that is needed.

In regards to his basketball career, Shane took one of his 5 recruiting visits last year to George Mason, who's Coach at the time was Jim Larranaga, who is now the Head Coach at the Univ of Miami.

Shane also had offers from USF and UCF in regards to other schools in FLA.

When I was still a basketball player, I trained with Sherwin Anderson (former point guard at Xavier) and he was always telling me about Barry Larkin's kid because he was training him too. Said he was going to be a big time player if he developed physically. Of course this was when Barry's son was in 5th grade but it's interesting to see that he actually made it to a BCS school. I'll be intrigued to see where he goes from here.

yeah rumors are swirling that jim got to him somehow and he'll be in miami and his "medical condition" is a thing called homesickness. if he enrolls to one of the florida schools in the next week or so, especially miami, because its close to home then we'll know what the cause was.

(08-05-2011 11:11 AM)ivet Wrote:  yeah rumors are swirling that jim got to him somehow and he'll be in miami and his "medical condition" is a thing called homesickness. if he enrolls to one of the florida schools in the next week or so, especially miami, because its close to home then we'll know what the cause was.

One hopes that it is just homesickness and not Jim getting to him because that would be shady, yo. Not that shady isn't the color of MBB.

Update: Shane signed with Jim Larranaga at Miami earlier this week and is appealing to the ncaa to get a medical waiver that will allow him to play this upcoming season. His medical condition has yet to be announced but the word around the grapevine was he was homesick, he was getting worked by Brandon Young at the PG position and he just didnt fit in with the rest of the team-that is the other guys hung out together and Shane was never part of the group.

He stated that he wanted to be closer to home but Orlando (his hometown) is a four hour drive to Miami- Chicago to Miami is alitle over an hour flight and I'm pretty sure they can afford those flights if he ever wanted to fly down. Im kinda hoping that Miami does get the death penalty and reaches out to the BBall program, though I doubt that will happen. Who knows, if the NCAA goes down on the U you might see Shane jumping to another school for "medical reasons."

At this point we have all concluded that Shane is riding off his dads position and reputation. If this was some other poor kid from a the "hood" and from a broken family I'm pretty sure the NCAA wouldn't allow all this nonsense, but Shane's daddy is athletic royalty and backed up by ESPN..

(08-18-2011 11:00 AM)ivet Wrote:  ..

Chicago to Miami is alitle over an hour flight ...

I wish...I spent longer than an hour taxing at O'Hare many times...I wish Chicago to Miami was a short flight like that (still not long but most certainly not "a little over an hour flight").

On this thread topic, obviously Shane's "medical condition" will not keep him away from playing basketball this season as he is appealing the NCAA to allow him to play immediately at Miami later this fall.

(08-18-2011 11:04 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  I wish...I spent longer than an hour taxing at O'Hare many times...I wish Chicago to Miami was a short flight like that (still not long but most certainly not "a little over an hour flight").

haha. I think the time spent getting to the airport, waiting in the terminal, waiting in the taxiway takes more time than the flight itself. Of course there's always Midway, but noone ever seems to go there for some reason.

ivet, I had a 2 hour layover in Detrot a couple of weeks ago turn into a 6 hour layover, because our flight crew had been delayed by a storm in some other part of the country. Then there was another hour delay waiting to take off, because our flight was supposed to have already left, and there were other flights already scheduled that had priority. It happens...

(08-18-2011 11:12 AM)ivet Wrote:  

(08-18-2011 11:04 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  I wish...I spent longer than an hour taxing at O'Hare many times...I wish Chicago to Miami was a short flight like that (still not long but most certainly not "a little over an hour flight").

haha. I think the time spent getting to the airport, waiting in the terminal, waiting in the taxiway takes more time than the flight itself. Of course there's always Midway, but noone ever seems to go there for some reason.

Last time thru ATL, 32 planes in line to take off. We taxied for 50 minutes?

(08-18-2011 11:12 AM)ivet Wrote:  

(08-18-2011 11:04 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  I wish...I spent longer than an hour taxing at O'Hare many times...I wish Chicago to Miami was a short flight like that (still not long but most certainly not "a little over an hour flight").

haha. I think the time spent getting to the airport, waiting in the terminal, waiting in the taxiway takes more time than the flight itself. Of course there's always Midway, but noone ever seems to go there for some reason.

I fly out of Midway whenever possible (maybe because I like flying Southwest). It's less crowded, Southwest takes you virtually anywhere domestically from there and if you're stuck, the food choices are FAAAAR superior (which is strange since O'Hare is so much larger). There's even a Manny's Deli outpost there!

Miami is definitely about a 2 to 2.5 hour flight from Chicago, though. An hour flight from Chicago would only get you to St. Louis or Detroit.

dang, I didnt realize everyone was an expert at flight times and distances, its still less than driving from miami to orlando but lets all stay focused now....this is about shane and his mysterious medical condition which still allows him to bypass ncaa rules of sitting out a year. if it gets through i can see this setting a precedent for future players to have a "fallback school" encase they don't end up liking their original school.

Barry Brunetti left WVU after last season for medical hardship, due to his mother's medical issues. He's going to be Mississippi State's starting QB this season, after being WVU's backup last season. He's not sitting out...

It happens...

(08-18-2011 03:04 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Barry Brunetti left WVU after last season for medical hardship, due to his mother's medical issues. He's going to be Mississippi State's starting QB this season, after being WVU's backup last season. He's not sitting out...

It happens...

Umm thats not really the same as Shane Larkins Story since his "medical condition" has yet to be announced. Brunetti also stayed the whole year at WV before transfering-Shane was on campus for 2 months. He passed his physical, practiced with the team and even signed up for summer classes. No word about the rest of his family having any condition and his dad Barry, as well as the DePaul Staff is pretty tight lip about the whole situation - seems like they just want to move on and not worry about the spoiled kid. Even the appeal waiver sent to the NCAA did not disclose what this "condition/hardship" was. Also a 4 hour drive is not what I would consider "close to home." UCF was after him and still had an offer, that I would consider close to home.

Well, if the kid doesn't want to be there, it's probably best he's gone. He'd be a cancer on the team otherwise...