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Reading that he is going to Belgium right now for something basketball related? Anyone heard anything?

I hate threads with just the name only. My hearts skips every time

Yeah, me too... But "Cokley to Belgium?" would be worse.

(08-07-2015 11:40 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I hate threads with just the name only. My hearts skips every time

Ha. Seems weird for a college kid to be going to Belgium. I'm probably just being that weird Twitter stalker guy.

(08-07-2015 11:31 AM)BlazerGold09 Wrote:  Reading that he is going to Belgium right now for something basketball related? Anyone heard anything?

http://eaglecountryonline.com/local-arti...m-belgium/

SD Grad Scudder To Join Select Team In Belgium
Posted On July 17, 2015
By Travis Thayer

(Cincinnati, Oh.) – A former South Dearborn High School graduate and Mount St. Joseph University basketball star Joel Scudder will be taking a trip overseas to play versus professional ballplayers.

Scudder, now a senior, will be joining the Sports Academy Collegiate Select Team on a trip to Belgium from August 6-14 to play five games versus different professional teams.

Scudder led the Lions in three categories as a junior with 14.9 ppg, 62 assists, and 38 steals.

He was also a 2014-15 First Team All-HCAC selection.

Scudder will join a team made up of players from around the country.

Here is the full select team roster:

Trelun Banks (Southern University)

Scott Plaisance (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Sidy Djitte (Clemson University)

Kayel Locke (UNC Greensboro)

Jared Sam (Southern University)

Chris Cokley (Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham)

Sterling Brown (Southern Methodist Univ.)

Benjamin Moore (Southern Methodist Univ.)

Brian Steele (Univ. of South Carolina)

Maybe he wants some waffles.

(08-07-2015 11:40 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I hate threads with just the name only. My hearts skips every time

Same.

(08-07-2015 12:03 PM)usmgh Wrote:  

(08-07-2015 11:31 AM)BlazerGold09 Wrote:  Reading that he is going to Belgium right now for something basketball related? Anyone heard anything?

http://eaglecountryonline.com/local-arti...m-belgium/

SD Grad Scudder To Join Select Team In Belgium
Posted On July 17, 2015
By Travis Thayer

(Cincinnati, Oh.) – A former South Dearborn High School graduate and Mount St. Joseph University basketball star Joel Scudder will be taking a trip overseas to play versus professional ballplayers.

Scudder, now a senior, will be joining the Sports Academy Collegiate Select Team on a trip to Belgium from August 6-14 to play five games versus different professional teams.

Scudder led the Lions in three categories as a junior with 14.9 ppg, 62 assists, and 38 steals.

He was also a 2014-15 First Team All-HCAC selection.

Scudder will join a team made up of players from around the country.

Here is the full select team roster:

Trelun Banks (Southern University)

Scott Plaisance (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Sidy Djitte (Clemson University)

Kayel Locke (UNC Greensboro)

Jared Sam (Southern University)

Chris Cokley (Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham)

Sterling Brown (Southern Methodist Univ.)

Benjamin Moore (Southern Methodist Univ.)

Brian Steele (Univ. of South Carolina)

Well that's pretty cool.

Don't look too much into it. Remember when Jordan Swing played some ball in Lithuania before his senior year? http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/...s_fai.html

Call me old fashioned but some one on the staff needs to get this kid to think through his social media decisions a little better. He just posted a photo of on Instgram wearing a necklace with a chrome razor blade on the end. For a kid that goes by "Coke Boy" that's a really bad look.

Whenever I start to rankle about student-athletes' social media habits, I try to remember that I'm closer to 50 than I am to 40, and when I was their age, I could make as big an ass of myself as I wanted and still didn't have the world for an audience.

His are pretty bad at times.(and I'm 30)

He's also the youngest guy on the team...

I don't follow student-athletes on twitter and this is why. I don't want to cringe every time they post something I think is foolish.

It's just a bad look for the program. It wouldn't take 30 seconds for it to be resolved internally. Here's to hoping he'll dunk on a couple people and I'll stop being a prude.

Yeah that's not a good look. This isn't a "kids will be kids" thing. He seems to be a social media idiot. Why do some people lack basic common sense?

On 2nd look, I don't like the necklace but the rest of his stuff is pretty harmless..

I don't follow any players or anything like that, but I always figured limiting social media for players was always in the best interest of all parties involved. I think some coaches even ban it completely during the season.

Yeah I don't think its a bad idea to do that.. People are completely oblivious to the things they post and the consequences it can have on them

(08-30-2015 07:39 PM)BlazerGold09 Wrote:  It's just a bad look for the program. It wouldn't take 30 seconds for it to be resolved internally. Here's to hoping he'll dunk on a couple people and I'll stop being a prude.

I disagree. If UAB was the only program who had players tweeting "a bad look", you might have something. However, every team has players whose twitter posts don't meet the standards of their older, less street wise fans.

I see a tweet by Cokley, or before him, Jekore Tyler, and I write it off as different generations and backgrounds. Once I realized that what you see from most of the UAB players is different from the majority of players at other schools, it didn't bother me anymore.

I did have to stop following Dexter Fields, but that was because all of the hating on the Grizzlies he was doing