cc66
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04-05-20 10:04 PM - Post#305864
In response to welcometothejungle
Has there ever been a transfer process to match this saga?
From the outside, it seems quite nuts.
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Mike Porter
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04-06-20 03:05 AM - Post#305869
In response to cc66
Spencer Gloger wants his move back
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palestra38
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04-06-20 05:41 AM - Post#305871
In response to Mike Porter
Awww...Porter woke up before I did and saw this question. No one's transfer saga was weirder than Gloger.
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rbg
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04-06-20 09:18 AM - Post#305877
In response to palestra38
A couple of other crazy transfer stories:
Rob Hodgson (mid-90s). He kept people thinking he was going to come to Penn from Indiana, eventually transferring to Rutgers.
Desmond Cambridge (last year). He announced his final schools were Vanderbilt, Stanford & Virginia Tech. Then, he trimmed it to Vandy & Va Tech and said he would make an announcement at the end of April. After about a week of silence, he announced he was transferring to Nevada.
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cc66
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04-06-20 09:24 AM - Post#305879
In response to rbg
For those of us who don't know, please tell us about Spencer Gloger.
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palestra38
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04-06-20 10:22 AM - Post#305888
In response to rbg
Hodgson was not a transfer, although he was an interesting story--supposedly a slick Ron Haigler type forward, it was a major recruit for Dunph after the Jerome Allen-Matt Maloney teams. He showed up at Penn, checked into the high rise and 2 days later, went AWOL from the dorm. He surfaced at Rutgers, where his father apparently wanted him to play bigger time basketball and showed up in the middle of the night to remove him. Never registered at Penn though, so not a transfer. Had a nice Rutgers career, but Rutgers was playing Big East then and stunk. https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/rob-h...
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welcometothejungle
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Tape to Duke 04-06-20 12:02 PM - Post#305894
In response to palestra38
I had seen some Duke fans speculate that Tape decommitting could have been related to not getting into his desired graduate program and wanting to reconsider his alternatives. Not sure how true that is though. Tape is quoted in the 247 story as saying he felt like he may have rushed his original decision and wanted to make sure he had properly considered all of his options, which I can also understand. Could be that Tape, a NC native, got the offer from Duke and immediately accepted given the ability to play in his home state for a program with the tradition of Duke, then felt like he had been quick to accept
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Go Green
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04-06-20 12:38 PM - Post#305897
In response to cc66
For those of us who don't know, please tell us about Spencer Gloger.
If you do a search for "Gloger," you'll get plenty of discussion.
Here's one (near end of first page). More exist.
http://boards.basketball-u.com/showtopic.php?tid/1...
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Go Green
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04-06-20 01:16 PM - Post#305900
In response to Go Green
And in case anyone is wondering, the answer is YES -- Tiger69 does indeed chide people in that 2015 thread for not having better things to do, as he has done so many times over the years (including today on the Voy Board).
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Billy Hoyle
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Tape to Duke 04-07-20 01:56 PM - Post#305940
In response to rbg
A couple of other crazy transfer stories:
Rob Hodgson (mid-90s). He kept people thinking he was going to come to Penn from Indiana, eventually transferring to Rutgers.
Desmond Cambridge (last year). He announced his final schools were Vanderbilt, Stanford & Virginia Tech. Then, he trimmed it to Vandy & Va Tech and said he would make an announcement at the end of April. After about a week of silence, he announced he was transferring to Nevada.
I don't remember the recruit or the school involved, but a coach of a rival school intercepted a recruit who was changing flights at Denver International and the kid never showed up in Texas, which is where he was supposed to go.
And go back nearly 40 years to the "recruitment" of Akeem Olajuwon. He arrived at JFK and the St. John's coach who was supposed to show up did not. Akeem had tickets for three other cities, Providence, Louisville, and Houston so he asked a Nigerian baggage handler which one had weather similar to Nigeria and the guys told him to go to Houston. UH didn't even know he was coming nor that he was 7 feet tall.
Edited by Billy Hoyle on 04-07-20 01:58 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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hoopsfan
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Re: Tape to Duke 05-09-20 03:26 PM - Post#307117
In response to Billy Hoyle
Tape video interview 5/7/2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHvdQ1Mybss&a mp;li...
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Chet Forte
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05-12-20 10:06 AM - Post#307265
In response to hoopsfan
The interviewer was obsequious to a fault. I wish that he would have been forthright and simply said welcome to the one and done land of the hypocrites. Coach K pretends to be all that is sacrosanct about college ball yet is making a bloody fortitude off of these “scholar athletes†who spend one year at his factory only because they cannot go right into the NBA. Tape will find that he is in a different world now.
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HARVARDDADGRAD
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05-12-20 04:50 PM - Post#307289
In response to Chet Forte
Tape was sort of “3 and doneâ€
He’s prepped
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LocalTiger
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05-13-20 08:33 AM - Post#307296
In response to HARVARDDADGRAD
A little bitter? Tape is a kid with some talent. The
idea that he wants to taste the big time does not
make him evil. I hope he does Columbia and the Ivies
proud.
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HARVARDDADGRAD
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Tape to Duke 05-13-20 10:54 AM - Post#307299
In response to LocalTiger
You misunderstand me.
Not bitter at all.
I was disappointed for Columbia as with Tape and Stefanini Columbia would have qualified for the tournament and really been in the thick of things this year. I'm also assuming that Tape was injured and would have gotten a late start and risked reinjury at Columbia.
Just observing that "one and done" mentality has now reared its ugly head as "three and done" in the Ivy's.
Why would I be bitter about Tape? Frankly, I assume that absent the graduate transfer program we might have seen both Seth Towns and Bryce Aiken hobbling onto Lavietes ala Willis Reed over the past two seasons. I'm disappointed that we are losing so much talent, but they are all making the correct decisions for themselves under the current NCAA scheme.
Edited by HARVARDDADGRAD on 05-13-20 10:55 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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SomeGuy
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Re: Tape to Duke 05-13-20 10:57 AM - Post#307300
In response to HARVARDDADGRAD
I assume he was talking about Chet Forte’s post.
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palestra38
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Re: Tape to Duke 05-13-20 11:53 AM - Post#307303
In response to SomeGuy
And Princeton guys never are snarky towards Harvard guys.
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Dr. V
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05-13-20 11:58 AM - Post#307304
In response to SomeGuy
I'm only speaking for myself rather than anyone else on these boards.
I realize that today's world is much more of a "transactional" world, but for at least some geezers such as myself, loyalty actually means something. It's one thing if a player is a star coming out of h.s., e.g., perhaps Boudreau. A school knows it is very lucky to have gotten a player of that caliber and if he decides after one or two years that he wants a higher level of competition, which he could have had if he had chosen a high major to begin with, then that's that. But it's different when a player is marginal coming out of h.s. and a school provides a place for him and its coaches work with him to build up his skills, his strength etc. and then, despite strenuous attempts to get him to stay and play, he nevertheless sits out, gets the benefit of that prestigious school's degree and then transfers to a high major.
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mrjames
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05-13-20 12:06 PM - Post#307305
In response to Dr. V
I think it would be hard to distinguish the two as a matter of practice, but I do agree with the sentiment behind feeling that way.
At the end of the day, as long as the Ivy League has the policy against grads playing, it's really hard to blame kids who get injured for taking the extra years elsewhere. I don't exactly love the trend of sitting as a healthy player to graduate and save a year or two for a bigger school, but to some extent that's the same as a transfer (the kid would have to sit a year as a non-grad transfer anyway, so why not get a degree while sitting that year).
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internetter
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05-13-20 12:48 PM - Post#307309
In response to mrjames
Tape went to play in a European (with Killingsworth) in the summer before his senior year.
Anyone see a report of an injury when he returned?
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