John Wilkins' 7' brother

[lake Camelot]

how?

I'm confused how he could be eligible to play there when the Limestone kids couldn't. Unless dad is moving? Would they sign guardianship over to someone he could live with?

[jeffsu]

I'm confused how he could be eligible to play there when the Limestone kids couldn't. Unless dad is moving? Would they sign guardianship over to someone he could live with?

Yes -- someone would need to move there with him/them. Obviously we don't know his family situation so it's tough to speculate the details.

[georgethedog]

I changed my signature to one that is more appropriate!

[Scouter]

Don't get too excited BU fans... if you know what I mean. If the rumors are true, he will have 4 years of Big 10, Big East, etc., propaganda to sway him to a BCS school. That's a long time for the BCS driven media to brainwash a young mind. So, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.

Or he could have three years of enjoying watching his brother play a quick trip down Route 116...

[MacabreMob]

are there any BIG Bradley boosters in Metamora??

isn't that somewhere near Stark County Mac??

Metamora = Woodford County. I'd say that is more of a ENE Suburb.

IMO, quite a ways from the NW Suburbs, considering you'd have to cross the river in Peoria or go all the way to Lacon.

[ph]

Metamora, huh???

Here we go again, all the great basketball players go to football schools

[SFP]

One thing from all this is pretty clear is that Mr. Wilkens does not want his kid in Gary, IN. and he will probably end up in the hands of someone that he trusts and respects. I also bet that having an older brother near by will be a bonus. If that brother goes to BU and happens to bring his little brother over to campus all the time to practice and help him out I bet no one would get upset about that.

[SFP]

I usually do not jump on rumors but when they make a ton of sense well then I believe those rumors are more then coincidence. Someone is either knows something or is trying to influence something.

[Da Coach]

I have actually just received pretty solid confirmation that this is all not true.

Looks like some here on BradleyFans were right.
The rumor in Wednesday's Journal Star was "erroneous".
Here is some verified information about Jonathan Wilkins, brother of BU recruit John Wilkins. And it comes from the PJ Star, the same source where the erroneous rumor was reported 2 days ago.

http://www.pjstar.com/preps/x349783990/Hoop-du-Jour

According to one local talent evaluator, an item in Wednesday??™s Journal Star reporting that Metamora could get a 7-foot freshman next season is erroneous. According to Bill Flanagan, Jonathan Wilkins, younger brother of Bradley recruit John Wilkins, will not live in the U.S.
Flanagan says the younger Wilkins will stay in his native Belgium for 11 months a year. In July, he will come to Gary, Ind., and stay with his father, former Illinois State player Jeff Wilkins, so he can play one month of AAU basketball.

[Scouter]

It was reported as a rumor anyway.

[cpacmel]

It was reported as a rumor anyway.

The writer even prefaces it by saying:

The tallest tale around town is that Metamora

I would hope people would know what a tall tale is?

[Beninator]

It was reported as a rumor anyway.

I didn't think that "journalists" for what is supposed to be a respectable newspaper would delve into reporting rumors!?!?!?!?!

[Beninator]

As long as we are talking about headlines, let's take a look at the PJS' correction in today's paper. The title on this is "Wafflling on Belgian."
Doesn't anybody at the PJS have the guts to admit they made a mistake and should not have printed this in the first place?

I doubt it!

[Scouter]

I would hope people would know what a tall tale is?

Apparently not...

Scouter, the "Wilkins to Metamora" was reported as "The tallest tale around town"
which, given journalists' penchant for punning, could be taken to refer only to the kid's height,
and it is NOT made clear that this is just an unlikely rumor.

I won't even dignify the rest of tornado's post with a response. Only the most foolish people in the world would take the reporter's comments as fact. This board is making me sick and makes me want to get farther away from it every day. Too bad because it actually does have some reasonable discussion every once in a while.

[Beninator]

Apparently not...



I won't even dignify the rest of tornado's post with a response. Only the most foolish people in the world would take the reporter's comments as fact. This board is making me sick and makes me want to get farther away from it every day. Too bad because it actually does have some reasonable discussion every once in a while.

But Scouter, T is right in at least one respect. Why did the PJS feel there was a need for a correction? And...Once there was a correction article written, why did the PJS have to continue to frame the article with a flip headline and why did the PJS writer feel there was a need to frame the last part of the article with; "Consider this a candidate for Sports Illustrated??™s ???This week??™s sign of the apocalypse.???

I'll tell you one reason why... BAD JOURNALISM