Can We Have A Normal Season??

[TheHeemyMonster]

Every year something ridiculous happenes to this team.

2007-08- Ruffin hurt, warren hurt, ruffin arrested
2006-07- Ruffin hurt
2005-06- POB and Franklin suspended

Gilbert was also hurt his senior year for quite sometime and I believe Crouch was injured for a few games in one of those seasons as well.

Can we get a break????

[Lakeview Brave]

Dont forget

AP breaking foot
Dye getting hurt
Ed Cage getting hurt

[SFP]

Injuries happen to all teams and you just need to get through them. Suspensions are totally under the control of the players to prevent. JL will catch some heat on this but DR is an adult and should never have put himself thus the team and Unversity in this position.

[Da Coach]

Don't forget Jeremy Crouch's knee injury and shoulder surgery.
Sam Singh's knee and shoulder surgeries.
Phil Gilbert's foot injury.

And if we are goig back 10+ years, Aaron Zobrist's severe ankle sprain.

[Big Mike]

so far basketball is just like real life....having to overcome the unseen obsticles around every turn......how good you are depends on how good you handle the adversity! To be successful in life you must overcome and Braves basketball will overcome! My hopes of postseason play just changed to fear over winning tonights game let alone getting into a post season tourney! Let's fill the house tonight and give the players the support they need to overcome another roadblock set up in the road to success!

[Lakeview Brave]

Don't forget Jeremy Crouch's knee injury and shoulder surgery.
Sam Singh's knee and shoulder surgeries.
Phil Gilbert's foot injury.

And if we are goig back 10+ years, Aaron Zobrist's severe ankle sprain.

Didnt Jabbar Battle have a similar situtaion.

Also Suggs left the team under bad circumstances and lets not forget losing Granger mid season.

If you think about it almost every season the last 12 years has had a big injury, suspension or player leaving the team.

[tornado]

Injuries, well every team has them.......

But behavior issues??
Bradley holds its athletes to a considerably higher standard than what we have seen elsewhere.
If what we are hearing is confirmed, then I anticipate proper suspension.
However, in all the he said/she said cases we have seen in the press lately, when facts come out, the truth sometimes may be quite different that what is initially reported.
Remember, the Duke Lacrosse case is just one example of where the law gets involved because of a complaint that in the end had no merit.
We should wait and see on this one.

[dogsrus]

so far basketball is just like real life....having to overcome the unseen obsticles around every turn......how good you are depends on how good you handle the adversity! To be successful in life you must overcome and Braves basketball will overcome! My hopes of postseason play just changed to fear over winning tonights game let alone getting into a post season tourney! Let's fill the house tonight and give the players the support they need to overcome another roadblock set up in the road to success!

Well stated....

[Da Coach]

Just to clarify, since posting about other situations might imply there are similarities--

Battle's situation did not have any effect on the team, as he never played anyway. And I believe the charges against him were all dropped.

Mike Suggs situation was not similar to today's, as he never had any legal charges against him, and his situation was over the summer, so it didn't affect the team like something in mid-season would.

[Lakeview Brave]

Just to clarify, since posting about other situations might imply there are similarities--

Battle's situation did not have any effect on the team, as he never played anyway. And I believe the charges against him were all dropped.

Mike Suggs situation was not similar to today's, as he never had any legal charges against him, and his situation was over the summer, so it didn't affect the team like something in mid-season would.

I think Battle was arrested for hitting his girlfried. My point on those expamples was not that they had nearly the same effect that this might but more that they were distractions that made a season "not normal"

[Da Coach]

Battle was charged for domestic battery, so that part is similar to what is being reported today. But is my recollection correct? I seem to recall that the complaint was withdrawn and all charges were dropped.

[Lakeview Brave]

Battle was charged for domestic battery, so that part is similar to what is being reported today. But is my recollection correct? I seem to recall that the complaint was withdrawn and all charges were dropped.

I think that is right. Did the team punish Battle after that or did he just leave?

[BradleyBrave]

Don't forget Jeremy Crouch's knee injury and shoulder surgery.
Sam Singh's knee and shoulder surgeries.
Phil Gilbert's foot injury.

And if we are goig back 10+ years, Aaron Zobrist's severe ankle sprain.

Don't forget the POB and WF suspension too.

[mike radigan]

Anthony Parker's ankle.

[Big Mike]

Is anyone else ready for some good news from the hilltop? Seems like forever since we've gotten something to get excited about.....maybe we can close in on one of the recruits or something!