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The Big Ball Theory

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Chef2, Mar 14, 2017.

  1. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Have mostly dealt with the Central Section in recent years. Their rule is similar. One case, softball player transfers to a school coached by her club team, supposedly to take a sign language class that would fulfill the foreign language requirement for her scholarship at an SEC school. She moved in with a club team coach (no Poin involved as far as we knew). Section did some digging and ruled it athletically motivated. Parents got an injunction, but courts eventually agreed with the Section. School forfeited all games she played, she was ruled ineligible the rest of the season, but school was allowed to go to the playoffs. The player eventually did get a scholarship (despite my best efforts by reporting all this), but at a Mountain West school.

    Another one, from what we heard: Football team's kicker gets mad at coach and leaves. But since his family's farm bordered on an adjacent school's territory, he transfers and, six weeks later, is kicking for the other school in the same league.
     
  2. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    I actually can't wait to see how Jello's game "translates" into college ball. It could be a disaster.
     
  3. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    What the hell are you talking about?
     
  4. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Are you aware UCLA has five other recruits in next year's incoming class that are all higher rated than LiAngelo? Or that LiAngelo didn't even make his class' Top 150 lists?

    If so, could you explain why you think Alford will be fired if he plays others ahead of such a marginally-rated recruit? I'm curious to hear your reasoning.
     
    Last edited: Mar 20, 2017
  5. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    The father is going to try to make life miserable if the middle kid barely plays as a freshman.
     
  6. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    Two thoughts about this: 1) Daddy Ball probably isn't going to be satisfied by anything or 2) he might be so busy micromanaging (and gobbling up the cash) from his NBA son that the other two might have some semblance of normal careers.
     
  7. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Gotta believe Alford knows where the industrial-sized cans of STFU are stored on-campus. Like he's never dealt with an overbearing parent?
     
  8. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Not now or next year. But thereafter.
     
  9. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Except that this one has a very large megaphone. And it will be larger one year from now.
     
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  10. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Alford's only concern has to be whether Daddy has anything on Alford that can be used for blackmail; other than that, then STFU and you can take your other boys elsewhere (unless of course they are as calm, cool, and collected as Lonzo, because Lonzo is one of the coolest customers on the court I've seen in NCAA ball in 40 years).
     
  11. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    1. Why would the megaphone be larger next year than this year?

    2 So you're suggesting UCLA would fire Alford because of LaVar Ball's opinion?

    I'm still not getting the reasoning behind your comments. LaVar Ball is just a loudmouthed clown that no smart person takes seriously, he doesn't have the clout to get Alford or any other any UCLA coach fired--and especially so next year after the best of his sons is long gone.
     
    Last edited: Mar 20, 2017
  12. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    1) His oldest son is gonna be an NBA star one year from now. Hence bigger megaphone.
    2) If the elder Ball doesn't like the way Alford is doing things in 2018, he'll simply tell the rest of the best players in SoCal to boycott the Bruins.
     
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