Xavier Crawford to YUBA

[Big Mike]

According to the PJS http://www.pjstar.com/stories/082606...MT06.080.shtml

I guess all the speculation by the posters was correct and to me this is SAD..........and not good in any way! Why did it take so long to get to this point? Front court just got very thin ............lets hope Matt Salley is the real deal to help out with ZA!

This is another reason the Ray Brown smoking incident really hurts the Braves with only 10 scholies playing this year!

[Biff]

Re: XC to YUBA

According to the PJS http://www.pjstar.com/stories/082606...MT06.080.shtml

I guess all the speculation by the posters was correct and to me this is SAD..........and not good in any way! Why did it take so long to get to this point? Front court just got vry thin ............lets hope Matt Salley is the real deal to help out with ZA!

This is another reason the Ray Brown smoking incident really hurts the Braves with only 10 scholies playing this year!

And Sam Singh's untimely injury.
Let's all hope this works out well for Xavier. I am sure he will be well coached at Yuba.

[lefty]

Re: Xavier Crawford to YUBA

According to the PJS http://www.pjstar.com/stories/082606...MT06.080.shtml

I guess all the speculation by the posters was correct and to me this is SAD..........and not good in any way! Why did it take so long to get to this point? Front court just got vry thin ............lets hope Matt Salley is the real deal to help out with ZA!

This is another reason the Ray Brown smoking incident really hurts the Braves with only 10 scholies playing this year!

who knows how it will all play out. I think many BTM players will have these kind of issues.X, while tall is not big and really would not have made that much of an impact this year...he would have been another body that would have helped more for practice than in games. I'm sure Coach Corn will help him on the floor but X is going to have to do the rest in school

[BUBraves06]

This sux. Whether X would of made an impact or not is debatable, at least he would have been another body. I hope he can get his stuff together and be back at BU.

[romar]

Ok although usually I'm an optimist, I really don't view this as a bad thing. I was not expecting anything from XC this year (ala RB last year), even with the thin front line. I'm not expecting much more than a middle of the pack finish this year and anything above that would be gravy. He was going to be extremely raw not having actually played in 2 years. So JL basically threw his friend Coachcorn a bone and it gives XC 2 years to hone his skills. If he's productive and comes back, great!!, if not BU hasn't used another scholie on someone who proabably wasn't going to produce anyway. If he goes to Yuba and explodes and gets BCS stars in his eyes, BU will fill his spot with someone else. My guess is we see him back as a JR though.

[Big Mike]

Are the Braves still pursuing the Young kid from Yuba who already made a visit?

[BuBraves55]

so can we pick someone else up with his loss?

[flipper]

wouldn't it had be something if xavier had gone to icc. would have been cool to see x play locally too.

[chitownBUB]

I know this will help BU fans who feel the NCAA Clearinghouse has been a thorn in BU's side.
Ohio State has been waiting for one of their top recruits (part of the "Thad Five") to be cleared (6-9 Othello Hunter), and they'd still have the #1 recruiting class even without this guy.
But he's a stud and his eligibility was in question because of the classes he took at juco.
Well, no problem, the NCAA Clearinghouse cleared the guy now, so he can play. Wonder if he'd have been cleared had he been coming to BU?

[Bravesguy]

Are these guys a little behind the times or what?
From Sept 1,
"Former Richfield High center Xavier Crawford, who is 6 feet 11, plans to enroll this fall at Bradley University, which produced first-round NBA draft pick Patrick O'Bryant of Blaine."

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/15412034.htm

[tornado]

Re: Xavier Crawford to YUBA

...
I think many BTM players will have these kind of issues.....

No doubt, but here is an interesting story....

Boys to Men head coach Loren Jackson, in an effort to show how needed his prep school really is and how great of a person he must be to be so committed to offering a fine education at Boys to Men (like the kind that Xavier Crawford got),

Coach Jackson has done a survey and released the results....

Here is the summary of his results about the actual academic success of the Chicago Public League. (published in the Sun Times)

"26%"
"(that's the) percentage of players named to the Chicago Sun-Times' All- Public League basketball teams from 2000 to 2004 who academically qualified for Division I or Division II scholarships, according to a survey by former Julian coach Loren Jackson, who founded the Boys to Men Academy, a not-for-profit prep school designed to help inner- city athletes qualify for college scholarships."

In other words, only one in four of the CPL's All-Public League teams could academically qualify!
WOW, this is the proof of academic failure in the public schools,
but how many of BTM's graduates will qualify??
Time will tell..........