Dwight Buycks Commits to Marquette

[tornado]

http://iowastate.scout.com/a.z?s=171&p=2&c=762676

He has decided to cut the process off and take the offer from Marquette.

He is a fine player, very reminiscent of Tony Bennett and would have done very well at BU
but he has dreamed of playing in his hometown all his life, and I can't blame the kid for
accepting the offer from Marquette....and can only wish him well.
I think he'd have been a stud at BU, and only time will tell if he has made a good choice.

[BradleyBrave]

http://iowastate.scout.com/a.z?s=171&p=2&c=762676

He has decided to cut the process off and take the offer from Marquette.

He is a fine player, very reminiscent of Tony Bennett and would have done very well at BU
but he has dreamed of playing in his hometown all his life, and I can't blame the kid for
accepting the offer from Marquette....and can only wish him well.
I think he'd have been a stud at BU, and only time will tell if he has made a good choice.

I think he'd have been a stud at BU as well. So does Chuck Buescher. Darn it.

[thefish7]

I've always had a good feeling about Dwight on the court. Like BB I would've loved to have him at BU-- but good luck at Marquette, Dwight.

[tornado]

Story from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=762737

They cite a 3-pt shooting pct of 26.3% and they say Dwight had also gotten an offer from Illinois!
Read the comment about Bradley....

[basketball nut]

To bad our better players do not want to stay home and play for the local school. It seems if they have any talent they think BU isn't big enough for them to play at. They would rather go to the Big Ten or Big East, which I admit are conf. that get a lot more attention then the MVC does, instead of staying home. I guess watching all of those games @ BU for free for 3-5 years doesn't really mean anything except free tickets to a game.
I wish DB the best of luck and if I was him I would have done the same thing just as JC & DR did by staying home @ BU. Those 2 own this area right now. How many guys that have played elsewhere are well know around Central IL. Yes we have the Booth's and Wysinger's and a few others but for the most part once you leave the area unless you come back and have an impact like a few have done, no really follows you anymore.
My point is unlike a lot of other area's that a local college, once you leave, the local paper really doesn't follow you anymore. The pjs will get the guys that are at other colleges more headlines then they do BU unless of course you do something they don't agree w/ then you get the front page.

[mportsch]

Wow, I had never heard about Illinois offering him. Seems like he'd be a strange addition, considering there's currently no scholarships available in the 2009 or 2010 classes. Maybe Illinois had an offer on the table before the flurry of commitments began last fall.

[tornado]

I find this odd..........there's a lot of dissent in the DB threads in Milwaukee...

The anti- sentiment over Dwight Buycks' verbal seems to outweigh the pro- sentiment by at least 3 to 1!!
A few even argue Buycks should redshirt as 6-2/175 lbs/<30% shooting is NOT what most think of as getting a lot of immediate PT.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=415#s=415&f=2850&t=2588587

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=415#s=415&f=2850&t=2585571

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=415#s=415&f=2850&t=2586322

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=415#s=415&f=2850&t=2586142

[Scouter]

To bad our better players do not want to stay home and play for the local school. It seems if they have any talent they think BU isn't big enough for them to play at. They would rather go to the Big Ten or Big East, which I admit are conf. that get a lot more attention then the MVC does, instead of staying home. I guess watching all of those games @ BU for free for 3-5 years doesn't really mean anything except free tickets to a game.

Isn't that the same as watching a game at another school you're interested in and not committing to go to there? Just because a kid grows up in the Peoria area doesn't mean they have to go to Bradley. Yeah, it'd be great to have kids like Roth, Simms-Edwards and Donivine Stewart play here, but if they have chance to go to bigger schools in bigger conferences and WANT to go to there, that's fine with me. College is regarded as the best four years of your life. Let them make their own choices.

How many guys that have played elsewhere are well know around Central IL.

Pretty much anyone that goes to UIUC. Shaun Livingston. Matt Roth will be a legend in Washington for decades.

My point is unlike a lot of other area's that a local college, once you leave, the local paper really doesn't follow you anymore. The pjs will get the guys that are at other colleges more headlines then they do BU unless of course you do something they don't agree w/ then you get the front page.

I think that's an absurd statement. BU is on the front page for every game it plays, and is on the front page for just about every story prior to the game. How many stories were done on JC the last two years about how he came back from his ugly sophomore season and the injuries he had here? How many stories were there about Ruff (not counting the incident) about how he was the leader of this team the last two years and is regarded as one of the top point guards to play at Bradley. Those two were quoted in virtually every game story. How can you even think they had no local publicity from playing at Bradley? How many stories did you see about Ryan Thornton when he was at UW-M?

[tornado]

I think his premise was that the tiniest negative incident seems to get the Bradley kids disproportionately far more writeup than what they get for positive behavior and on court success.
I would have to agree with that premise, and I think we do have certain aspects of the local media who really highlight the negative with comments about "renegade program" and references to supposed completely unproven and confidential positive drug tests, and how things from years ago are still negatively highlighted in regard to Bradley's program.

Wake me up if we ever have a "HOOPS" preseason insert section that doesn't fill half its pages with all the negative stuff from up to a decade ago.

[tornado]

I think his premise was that the tiniest negative incident seems to get the Bradley kids disproportionately far more writeup than what they get for positive behavior and on court success.
I would have to agree with that premise, and I think we do have certain aspects of the local media who really highlight the negative with comments about "renegade program" and references to supposed completely unproven and confidential positive drug tests, and how things from years ago are still negatively highlighted in regard to Bradley's program.

Wake me up if we ever have a "HOOPS" preseason insert section that doesn't fill half its pages with all the negative stuff from up to a decade ago or from the Molinari era!

Again, remind me why we needed a column on 3/2/08 telling us all about incidents from FOUR years ago that had little to NO relevance to the present team, except to continue the negativity that's been so prevalent since the Phil Theobald/"surrounds himself with people who prefer to take the expedient route" claim?

http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=7333

[Da Coach]

Illinois had a player commit a felony, almost killed a teammate because he was driving with a blood alcohol level that was sky-high, and spend time in the slammer, and the Journal Star wrote mostly supportive articles about how he was punished enough by having to see his friend go through his injury, and missing games. In fact, the PJS did an article that was very flattering about how he has tried to turn his life around and use this terrible incident as a postive force to teach others about driving drunk.

Never did any PJ Star writer ask or demand that Bruce Weber punish the kid. In fact, he was never suspended, and 6 months passed before the coach announced that he would simply redshirt a year, and return with no suspension and with full eligibility for his remaining 2 years.

By comparison, Bradley's basketball team had the one incident with a player getting a speeding ticket, and underaged drinking, and you would have thought he murdered several people. Kirk Wessler demanded stronger punishment; several more articles were written about the matter and how the coach failed to discipline his players properly, and the entire program was branded a "renegade program".

And don't forget, we have had several DUIs by the state school in Normal with virtually no punishment at all, and the PJS has basically never mentioned those. Why was there no call for more severe punishment?
In fact, Mr. Wessler scolded his readers that anyone who tries to make a distinction between felonies at Illinois, multiple DUI's at ISU, and these far less serious issues involving Bradley basketball players is "splitting hairs". What a joke!

If you can't see that there has been a stark difference in how these writers have reacted to these situations (especially since the Illinois one was far more serious), then you have to be blind or biased.

[Beninator]

Illinois had a player commit a felony, almost killed a teammate because he was driving with a blood alcohol level that was sky-high, and spend time in the slammer, and the Journal Star wrote mostly supportive articles about how he was punished enough by having to see his friend go through his injury, and missing games. In fact, the PJS did an article that was very flattering about how he has tried to turn his life around and use this terrible incident as a postive force to teach others about driving drunk.

Never did any PJ Star writer ask or demand that Bruce Weber punish the kid. In fact, he was never suspended, and 6 months passed before the coach announced that he would simply redshirt a year, and return with no suspension and with full eligibility for his remaining 2 years.

By comparison, Bradley's basketball team had the one incident with a player getting a speeding ticket, and underaged drinking, and you would have thought he murdered several people. Kirk Wessler demanded stronger punishment; several more articles were written about the matter and how the coach failed to discipline his players properly, and the entire program was branded a "renegade program".

And don't forget, we have had several DUIs by the state school in Normal with virtually no punishment at all, and the PJS has basically never mentioned those. Why was there no call for more severe punishment?
In fact, Mr. Wessler scolded his readers that anyone who tries to make a distinction between felonies at Illinois, multiple DUI's at ISU, and these far less serious issues involving Bradley basketball players is "splitting hairs". What a joke!

If you can't see that there has been a stark difference in how these writers have reacted to these situations (especially since the Illinois one was far more serious), then you have to be blind or biased.

Well said DC!

[Stryker]

Well said DC!

Agree 100%