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Eddren McCain

Gargoyles said:
News has it that he's left the team and campus and will not be returning.
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I heard this as well but I didn't know if I should post about it. Apparently a couple days ago he had all of his stuff packed up in his room and he told someone that lives in the fraternity house next to St. James that he wasn't going to be back next year.
 
Isn't it kinda weird that he wouldn't finish up this semester and then leave?

Family issue maybe?

Best of luck if this is true Eddren
 
Gargoyles said:
News has it that he's left the team and campus and will not be returning.
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If true, it's probably for the best...both for BU and for Eddren...he clearly didn't seem to fit in our future plans...

It would open up another scholarship for us to pursue some frontcourt depth for next year...and it would give Eddren a chance to find some additional playing time at a lower level school somewhere...
 
IF this is true....

tough break for EM, he showed a lot of potential freshman year, but just had a tough year last year. SM or DSE better not get hurt, cause we really don't have any other point guards now, I would love to get a big and JW with the last 2 openings, but a JUCO Point guard might be needed too. Tough to get by with just 2 ball handlers if there is an injury to one. Unless WL can handle the ball, I don't know much about him.

I love EM's toughness and ball handling skills, but he is the one guy I thought might have a tough time cracking the rotation at this point not because he lacks talent but because of everything we have now and coming in. Even AT still has an opportunity because of his size and potential (we knew he'd be a project) to crack the rotation next year.

Again IF this is true without knowing what happened, thanks for what you contributed to the BU program EM, good luck with your future!
 
I'm kinda of shocked given that he was excelling in the classroom. Good luck to him if this story is true!

BTW...DD is more then adequate ball handler.
 
I have not heard any independent confirmation of this, but I accept that it is not surprising...
He's a long way from home and was falling deeper on the charts and not playing much...
I know he was still in the plans so I suspect if true he is smiply looking into the possibility of going where he'd get more playing time.
 
If this is true, then it's too bad though not surprising.

I thought he had a decent freshman season, and it's unfortunate he couldn't make bigger strides his sophmore year.

Best of luck, Edge.
 
The transfer does not surprise me. it sounds like an emotional decision though. Transfering now doesn't make sense. At the end of the year is what I would think he would do.
 
I'm really disappointed that he's leaving because much like JC did, I thought he could turn it around after his sophmore year slump. Nobody expected much in JC's Jr year and look what he did.
 
Well if that's true it's too bad. I liked his game a lot... Good handle, good D, and a gritty tough approach to the game. He had a very good freshman campaign and a rough sophomore year. Last year he seemed to be pressing from the start last year (maybe feeling some pressure from dyricus joining the team). As others have mentioned I kept JCs sophomore slump in mind when thinking the Edge might find his way again and do some real damage on the floor.
 
I have heard this from two different people in the past two days but haven't posted it because it still falls under the category of "rumor." I think EM is a great kid and wish him well in the future, but really hope he at least decides to finish the semester at Bradley so he don't hurt his academic standing wherever he plans to transfer to.
 
Wow...this is really news to me as I had talked to Edge less than a week ago...


My guess is that he had since talked to Coach Les and didn't like what he heard based on either playing time or something else...



Edge is a great kid and I hope he latches on somewhere and has a great finish to his collegiate career....
 
The coaches meet with each player after the season and discuss their future and the team's direction, as well as what the expectations are. I agree that EM probably didn't like what was presented to him. With Dodie returning, with DSE and Jake emerging as solid rotation players, with Walter Lemon coming in, and with not losing any players that Eddren competes with for playing time, I think he saw a discouraging picture.

What would you have told him if you were coach?
 
Anyone who has talked to me knows this isn't at all the guy or guys that were "supposed" to leave the program...


I can not mention names, but take that for what it is...


Either this may throw a wrench into those plans OR we may have many scholies to give in the near future...



Stay tuned, this could get interesting...
 
Da Coach said:
What would you have told him if you were coach?
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Pretty much the same thing he told JC....


Difference is, JC worked and worked and worked some more and worked his butt off enough to where he made him play him....



Thats whats supposed to happen and what happened before everyone decided to start transferring out of programs because things got a little rough...
 
Just my opinion, but I think Jeremy Crouch was an exception rather than the norm. The only freshmen during JC's slumping sophomore year were Ray Brown and Saihou Jassey. Obviously, neither one panned out for different reasons. If there had been a younger player at Crouch's position that had passed him on the depth chart, we might have never seen the great things he did his final two years after he tweaked his shot and got into great shape.
 
Also, in 2006 we lost a couple pretty good guard/wings to graduation in Tony Bennett and Lawrence Wright.
Bradley also lost most of their starting lineup, includin their top 4 scorers from that team in Marcellus Sommerville, Patrick O'Bryant, Bennett and Wright. That opened a lot of available playing time for JC to get right back into the rotation. This year's team only loses Singh and Roberts- none are starters and none competed with EM for playing time, and none rank among the top scorers on the team. Plus we get Dunson back and have an incoming point guard recruit. The environment is totally different for McCain as opposed to jeremy.
 
Da Coach said:
Also, in 2006 we lost a couple pretty good guard/wings to graduation in Tony Bennett and Lawrence Wright.
Bradley also lost most of their starting lineup, includin their top 4 scorers from that team in Marcellus Sommerville, Patrick O'Bryant, Bennett and Wright. That opened a lot of available playing time for JC to get right back into the rotation. This year's team only loses Singh and Roberts- none are starters and none competed with EM for playing time, and none rank among the top scorers on the team. Plus we get Dunson back and have an incoming point guard recruit. The environment is totally different for McCain as opposed to jeremy.
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Roberts wasn't a starter?


Thats news to me...


Also, you are correct and its a different scenario, but I recall Les telling JC he thought he should transfer to get more PT...

Recall that Ray Brown was scheduled to be the starting SG until the drug suspensions and other issues and its not like we wouldn't have brought in other players if JC would have transferred...


What I am getting at is that regardless of what the situation was, JC took it upon himself to get so much better that Les had no choice but to play him...



Just wish some of our bigs would have that mindset (or Milos).
 
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