question about basketball signees

[Roy Munson.sixpack]

with early enrollment and signing in Thanksgiving and us signing those 3 players, if Stans is terminated, are they binded to those scholarships or are they released? I ask this because I seem to remember that John Wall or Cousins did this with Memphis.

Now, if it is not an NCAA rule, but does the school not normally always release them from their scholarship, if the above is the case?

 

[Coach34]

and alot of times the kids just go ahead and attend the school they sign with. The Calipari signees are the exception- not the norm, because of what he got done for their families. Trent Johnson, John Pelphrey, and the other SEC coaches inherited signees from the predecessors for the most part.

 

[mstateglfr]

Look at DePaul this past summer for what to expect.

Why on earth would a program force a player to play for them if they dont want to? That is a terrible situation to put both the player and the program in. That player would come into the program bitter and almost certainly create tension.
The program would be(like others have before) raked over the coals for being so callous.

 

[DawgWild]

but could we be in a worse position than we are already in now? I kid there. We are in bad shape as program but it can always get worse. We are gonna need a lot of work to dig ourselves out of the hole we put ourselves into this season on the national spotlight. I've never been a huge Stans supporter; so it wouldn't hurt my feelings if we made a change. I personally can't see our signees being really happy with their decision right now with the way our program looks. If we make a change this season and get someone good, they might be happier about their decision. I don't want to hold an student athlete against their will though. If they don't want to be at State, then they won't perform up to their abilities. Either way it's gonna take some tough, talented, and mentally stable players to dig us out of where we have gotten.

 

[Coach34]

its not like The Recruiter is beloved by his players....if we make a good hire, then the first job he has is to get the signees excited about his hire...teams make coaching changes every damn season, and those teams keep 95% of their signees with no problem

 

[MSUCosmo]

That is such ********. Teams fire their coaches EVERY year, coaches get new jobs EVERY year. You don't see hundreds of players transferring all at one time because of coaching changes. A school is not going to grant releases to an entire class of signees because the coach was fired after basketball season. NOT gonna happen, and nobody is going to look down on the program because of it. Just because MSU fans have to give their coaches millions of opportunities to save their job before running the program into the ground before FINALLY pulling the trigger doesn't mean that this doesn't go on every day at the 300+ other Divsion I basketball schools. Firing a coach and hiring a new one is not the impossible process that MSU fans make it seem.

 

[lawdawg02]

But had a provision that let him out of his LOI in case of a coaching change. He was one and done at Kansas. Not sure if wall and cousins had already signed- they may have and had similar clauses.

 

[patdog]

....if we make a good hire, then the first job he has is to get the signees excited about his hire...

People were concerned about what might happen to our football recruiting class if we fired Crxxm. Well, what happened was Dan Mullen signed them all. I'm not advocating firing Stans this season unless the wheels just completely come off (which very well may happen). But keeping a coach you need to fire just to protect a recruiting class is short-sighted at best, and really it's just dumb.

 

[mstateglfr]

Just sayin that if they do, its commonplace to allow it.

 

[Todd4State]

because odds are much, much, much greater that we keep our recruits- who I think are probably all overrated as a group in my humble opinion. Some people are calling this the "greatest class ever for Mississippi", but there is not one guy that I can see that isn't a four year college guy. There are no Renardo Sidney's in terms of raw talent.

And Stansbury is no John Calipari. If/when Stansbury leaves, he is not going to land a better job than MSU. He may end up somewhere like Austin Peay or Georgia State, and I don't see any of those guys decommitting and following him there.

Actually, if we keep Stansbury, we will actually be wasting a year of their college career when you stop and think about it. And it's not like these wonderful recruits can't try to transfer once they are in college just as easily as they can ask out of their LOI.