Comments on: Bo Ryan is Angry Jarrod Uthoff is Transferring, So He’s Blocking as Many Suitors as Possible

By: Ace Duncan 124

Ace Duncan 124 — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:10:02 +0000

Every coach recruiting against Bo Ryan needs to play the tape of the Mike & Mike interview to the player. No player goes to Wisconsin again!

By: torgo98

torgo98 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:06:06 +0000

What’s going on with the spelling mistakes on this site? Does nobody put a second pair of eyes on an article before publishing?

By: roger from oz

roger from oz — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:19:31 +0000

Get real Bucky. Bo would have pulled the scholarship if he got injured or couldn’t play. You are high on whatever they grow in Wisconsin. Bo is a douche.

By: buckybacker

buckybacker — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:38:06 +0000

Bo is doing his job. Jarod gets a free year on scholarship, decides on his own to redshirt, brings nothing to the team and then wants to go someplace else. He should have to pay the university back for his freshman year of college and not be allowed to transfer to play ball at any division one program. This is not pro-sports. He made a decision and got a great deal 5 years of free education from a super university. He wants out, fine…but not to go somewhere else. It is time an adult,(I assume he was 18 making this promise to Wisconsin) stands by his commitment. If he got injured or couldn’t play Bo wouldn’t have taken his scholarship away. Get real and complete promises you make. Odds are this kid is just a whiner who is afraid to compete for a starting job. Some other school is tampering and promising him the moon. Bo makes all compete for starting for Wisconsin. WAY to go BO!!

By: roger from oz

roger from oz — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:29:36 +0000

Bo is a douchebag. F him.

By: dikembemutomballs

dikembemutomballs — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:28:08 +0000

Crown jewel of all of this and what really cements Bo Ryan as a dick? The guy running the UVA program, Tony Bennett, is the son of the guy who built the groundwork for the current Wisconsin program that makes Ryan look like a halfway competent coach. Way to help out – granted it would’ve been indirectly but still – the guy that helped you land that gig about ten years ago, Bo.

By: cursedcleveland.com

cursedcleveland.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:17:29 +0000

side

By: cursedcleveland.com

cursedcleveland.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:17:01 +0000

Dakich just made a pretty compelling case about why coaches do this. As always, there are two sides to every story and the national writers have only used the kid’s size.

By: jthussler

jthussler — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:44:44 +0000

Ryan, though, is loved by a small contingent of the stat-loving basketball media, so he’ll probably get a pass for this.

This, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with it.

I’d venture to say that the sport of college basketball is to blame. It’s the sport that props up all the coaches to make them icons of the schools they represent.

I’d also venture to guess that since there are roughly 350 D-1 programs, he’ll still be fine.

By: ImATaQUitO

ImATaQUitO — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:30 +0000

If the coach decides he wants to go somewhere else they should let the kids block about 25-30 schools also. Fair is fair.

By: PurdueMatt

PurdueMatt — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:00:44 +0000

He wasn’t offered by the entire B1G. And I doubt Indiana was actively recruiting him or would have accepted his commitment.

By: molemaninthemorning

molemaninthemorning — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:59:36 +0000

I would think Husker would like college basketball given that it’s one of the few sports where white people feature heavily.

/bringing it back

By: TimmyTheEnchanter

TimmyTheEnchanter — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:56:06 +0000

We care about football. That’s where there’s outrage. No one cares about WIS bball outside of WIS fans.

For those of you that don’t follow him for the daily minutia about Georgia football, Husker would like to remind you that he likes football but not basketball and you should all be the exact same way.

By: redraider337

redraider337 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:53:11 +0000

Was there ever any thought that Bo could be blocking schools because he believes they are trying to poach the kid or are behind his decision to transfer in the first place?

By: HuskerDawg

HuskerDawg — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:48:03 +0000

Where’s the outrage? Football coaches – Charlie Weis comes to mind – are regularly slammed for blocking kids from transferring to a school they want to

We care about football. That’s where there’s outrage. No one cares about WIS bball outside of WIS fans.

By: Nada

Nada — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:46:42 +0000

He can leave without restrictions, he would just have to sit out a year in residence

Coaches and players should be subject to the same rule: If you leave/transfer, either there’s no restrictions, or you sit out a year.

By: scripty

scripty — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:36:52 +0000

Shouldn’t affect them much since Matta never gives a shit about a bench anyway.

Well, he recruits players saying if they are going to play, they are going to play a lot, possibly 35 minutes a game. So once guys realize they are not in the top 7 or so they leave. I don’t think Matta is actually wanting a deep bench, as it wears against his recruiting philosophy. He talked at length about this in some article about recruiting Craft.

By: Scalia

Scalia — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:36:21 +0000

That’s about 20 of the 345 D1 Hoops programs = 5.8%

That’s virtually every D1 program.

By: MahGill

MahGill — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:34:06 +0000

Cleet, I understand your argument and if they did the same thing for coaches, I’d be right there with you. You shouldn’t lose the right to leave a university for another just like any other student because you play a sport. After all they are STUDENT-athletes, right? I’ll go for the in-conference restriction. As for other schools, however, the requirement to sit out a year should be enough.

By: scripty

scripty — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:33:38 +0000

That’s about 20 of the 345 D1 Hoops programs = 5.8%

He’s allowed to transfer to 94.2% of the other D1 programs.