I was wondering about Johnnie Vassar and whether he is still taking up a scholarship. It was my understanding a couple of years ago, he was going to leave but finish out the academic year, before transferring elsewhere. It seems as though nothing has happened and Northwestern has gone more than a year with having a basketball scholarship taken up by someone who is not participating with the team, but who is still attending classes or transferring as intended. Did I get that right? Is it still ongoing? If so, doesn't it reach the point that the student athlete should rejoin the team or just leave? From what I last heard, it sort of is like you have one scholarship taken up by a healthy individual not participating with the team and it sounds a little like freeloading. If what a heard about the situation is accurate, I guess I understand someone finishing out an academic year after deciding to transfer, but if there wasn't going to be a transfer after about a certain time, then shouldn't there be a return to the team activities if not leaving as it is a basketball scholarship after all?
Johnnie Vassar: Is He Still Taking A Scholarship?
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Carmody is coaching Holy Cross against South Carolina now on the SEC Network. Catch out the coach who has led two different programs to the NCAA Tournament!
So was: "it really hurts that our best athlete on the team, Cerina, is injured this season."
How about we just look ahead to this season and stop this silliness?
The answer is yes, he is. The grief you are getting is because it has been talked about a lot on here and is a sore spot among those with a tendency to not always see eye to eye with each other.
The answer is no one on this board knows as there have been no comments regarding the 13th scholarship by NU or the NU bball staff on Vasser or the 13th scholarship situation. What we do know is that NU offered a couple of guys in the offseason who would have taken a scholarship or 13th scholarship as a graduate transfer (Canyon Berry) or Charlie Moore who somehow wound up going to Cal.
Back to reality: Last two Holy Cross games: 91-52 loss to Oregon and 81-49 loss to South Carolina. That is BC's last two games against teams from power conferences.
IMHO, BC regime is from a bygone era from a guy who could not coach against teams playing power conference or big boy basketball. He pulled a rabbit out to make the tourney as the last seeded team in the Patriot League with four road wins against higher seeded teams on the road in the Patriot League.
Back to reality: Last two Holy Cross games: 91-52 loss to Oregon and 81-49 loss to South Carolina. That is BC's last two games against teams from power conferences.
IMHO, BC regime is from a bygone era from a guy who could not coach against teams playing power conference or big boy basketball. He pulled a rabbit out to make the tourney as the last seeded team in the Patriot League with four road wins against higher seeded teams on the road in the Patriot League.
You aren't seriously trying to equate the Patriot league with the SEC or PAC12? The USC game last night was a revenue play, pure and simple. The Patriot League is a nice little league of academics-first institutions. With the exception of Lehigh, who produced CJ McCollum, they will never compete with the big schools in any meaningful way.
Clarification for Fitzy:
BC is not a power conference coach. He is where he should have always been in a very small (mid major) conference where his failures to recruit and one trick pony coaching techniques (Pete Carrill coaching tactics - 1950s - 1960s) are less magnified. That was my point.
BC is not a power conference coach. He is where he should have always been in a very small (mid major) conference where his failures to recruit and one trick pony coaching techniques (Pete Carrill coaching tactics - 1950s - 1960s) are less magnified. That was my point.
Here we agree. His total lack of interest in recruiting was his biggest (fatal) flaw. Guy can coach but there is much more to winning in a Power conference than x's and o's. You also need Jimmies and Joes.
What we do know is that either Vassar is on schollie or CCC could not fill all the schollies. I am going to assume CCC will be able to use all the schollies available to him. You can continue to believe CCC can not. Cheers.
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I think it goes to show how much you miss on the board if you get tied up with other things in life and don't peruse the board regularly, because I obviously missed the discussion.