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Username Post: Tape to Duke        (Topic#24196)
Tod Howard Hawks 
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03-26-20 03:54 AM - Post#305084    

Michael Valmas recently told me he had heard from reliable sources that Tape will be heading to Duke next fall. Well, isn't that nice.

I gather Tape never issued anything resembling an apology to his fellow Columbia players for screwing them, leaving--what was it, a day or two before Columbia Basketball played its first game. And the Columbia fans, students and alumni alike, I don't think anyone got even a semblance of an apology from Tape.

Thinking ahead, I doubt Tape will ever be selected to enter the Columbia Athletic Hall of Fame. To be admitted to that august group, character--personal character--is a requisite attribute to be chosen.



 
Go Green 
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Re: Tape to Duke
03-26-20 06:43 AM - Post#305086    
    In response to Tod Howard Hawks

  • Tod Howard Hawks Said:


Thinking ahead, I doubt Tape will ever be selected to enter the Columbia Athletic Hall of Fame. To be admitted to that august group, character--personal character--is a requisite attribute to be chosen.





Was he ever a real candidate? He was only Honorable Mention All-Ivy while at Columbia.

 
RHunter3 
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Re: Tape to Duke
03-26-20 08:13 AM - Post#305087    
    In response to Tod Howard Hawks

It was long before the season started that they knew he wasn't coming back. It was not a few days before the season started. The coaches knew in the summer. It was not when it was announced.

 
welcometothejungle 
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Re: Tape to Duke
03-26-20 08:20 AM - Post#305088    
    In response to Tod Howard Hawks

  • Tod Howard Hawks Said:


I gather Tape never issued anything resembling an apology to his fellow Columbia players for screwing them, leaving--what was it, a day or two before Columbia Basketball played its first game. And the Columbia fans, students and alumni alike, I don't think anyone got even a semblance of an apology from Tape.





Per the ESPN article about Ivy League grad transfers earlier this season, Tapé had torn a ligament in his toe over the summer and likely would have missed a large chunk of the season even if he had stayed on the team. While his departure wasn't actually announced until the day before the season, I find it hard to believe the team didn't know in advance that this was something he was considering after he initially suffered the injury

 
RHunter3 
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Re: Tape to Duke
03-26-20 08:25 AM - Post#305089    
    In response to welcometothejungle

It was known he beginning of the summer. I knew then, but it wasn't announced until the start of the season.

 
welcometothejungle 
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03-26-20 08:30 AM - Post#305091    
    In response to RHunter3

That's what I figured. Usually that's the case with most of the news that breaks the week before the season starts (things like injuries), the team knows in advance but doesn't put anything out until right before the season

 
Tod Howard Hawks 
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Tape to Duke
03-26-20 10:09 AM - Post#305095    
    In response to welcometothejungle

Really? I can't believe you guys.

All of you can't be this dumb.

So, this best way to handle the Tape affair is just to sit on this and remain silent for months, then, ONE DAY--ONLY ONE DAY--before the season begins, that's when you make public to all your fans--students, alumni, Columbia Basketball fans in the City--that Tape--what is he, 6'10"--who, I was told, actually practiced with the team up until the day it was officially announced that, in fact, Tape was NOT going to play at all with his teammates, but was going to transfer, leaving ALL in his dust.

That's OK with all of you, right? Well, it's not OK with me.


Edited by Tod Howard Hawks on 03-26-20 10:11 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

 
PennFan10 
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Re: Tape to Duke
03-26-20 10:18 AM - Post#305097    
    In response to Tod Howard Hawks

Harvard wouldn't have even told anyone the day before. If it was up to them, none of us would have known until after he committed to Duke why he didn't play.

 
RHunter3 
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Re: Tape to Duke
03-26-20 10:18 AM - Post#305098    
    In response to Tod Howard Hawks

It's the coaches call. I think they were hoping the injury would progress faster, but the information was sat on. I know for a fact it was known before then, but wasn't my place to post the information.

 
Chet Forte 
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03-26-20 04:10 PM - Post#305131    
    In response to RHunter3

So if Tape was such an exemplary teammate, and didn’t play only because he had a bad toe, then I have to wonder why I did not see him even once at a single home game cheering on his teammates, and as a season ticket holder, trust me, I would not have missed a 6’10” dude sitting in the stands.


 
Sagatius 
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03-26-20 06:21 PM - Post#305138    
    In response to Chet Forte

I’ve seen him at several games.

 
Chet Forte 
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03-26-20 08:06 PM - Post#305144    
    In response to Sagatius

Then he must have been incognito.


 
Chet Forte 
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03-26-20 08:15 PM - Post#305146    
    In response to Chet Forte

And let me make one point clear—I have always thought that Tape had tremendous talent. It was a revelation to see the way he was playing toward the end of his junior year. I actually thought that he would have been first team all Ivy had he played this year and stayed healthy. He is a very gifted guy who will be a real contributor to the one and done heavy Duke roster. My quarrel with him is largely because he is so talented—Columbia took a chance on him as an unranked and underrecruited diamond in the rough and worked with him to turn him into a highly skilled and gifted player, but instead of showing appreciation he made it all about himself and in the process wrecked the season for his teammates, coaches and school.


 
internetter 
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Re: Tape to Duke
03-27-20 01:40 AM - Post#305149    
    In response to RHunter3

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he and Killinsgworth play in Europe during the summer before his senior year?
west coast fan


 
welcometothejungle 
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04-02-20 02:37 PM - Post#305603    
    In response to internetter

Patrick Tape has now decommitted from Duke

https://twitter.com/evandaniels/status/12 457771271...

 
Chet Forte 
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04-02-20 03:03 PM - Post#305607    
    In response to welcometothejungle

Coach K must have read my comments on this board and disinvited Tape.


 
Pantone291 
Freshman
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Reg: 04-04-19
04-02-20 03:47 PM - Post#305612    
    In response to Chet Forte

A strange story that keeps getting stranger. I suppose he could always go play for WSU.

 
cc66 
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04-02-20 04:38 PM - Post#305619    
    In response to Pantone291

It all goes to show there is some crazy basketball virus in the land that makes players leave Columbia and then do inexplicably erratic things.

 
Old Bear 
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04-02-20 05:01 PM - Post#305622    
    In response to cc66

Maybe that's why they went to Col. in the first place.

 
welcometothejungle 
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04-05-20 08:56 PM - Post#305860    
    In response to Old Bear

Well after all that, Tape has now recommitted to Duke

https://twitter.com/evandaniels/status/12 469600276...

 
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