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Post by AggiePride on May 3, 2018 14:26:11 GMT -5
His degree says A&T and as long as he writes us a check and ONLY has good things to say about our coaching staff and his experience, I can let this slide.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on May 3, 2018 16:00:37 GMT -5
FYI - DePaul hasn't had a winning season since 2006-07. In fact, they haven't even been close to sniffing .500. Good luck to him; this is not the DePaul of 70's/80's. Ray Meyer the last and only coach to take team to a final four. That was decades ago. Have they been to a NCAA tournament in the last 10-15 years. They sort of fell of the map. Maybe the luck of the Irish will arrive with Femi and they have a big season. i'm just "guessing", but maybe femi figured that's the best major d1 team that he'd have a chance to "start" right out of the gate. i get the impression that "playing time" against top notch competition in a top rated conference might be more important to femi than advancing to the big dance on a team where he gets "limited" playing time...
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Post by ohsixrain on May 4, 2018 15:46:47 GMT -5
Ray Meyer the last and only coach to take team to a final four. That was decades ago. Have they been to a NCAA tournament in the last 10-15 years. They sort of fell of the map. Maybe the luck of the Irish will arrive with Femi and they have a big season. i'm just "guessing", but maybe femi figured that's the best major d1 team that he'd have a chance to "start" right out of the gate. i get the impression that "playing time" against top notch competition in a top rated conference might be more important to femi than advancing to the big dance on a team where he gets "limited" playing time... Don't mean to sound critical but, how does that make sense in anybody's book...?
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Post by Aggie One on May 4, 2018 16:05:54 GMT -5
i'm just "guessing", but maybe femi figured that's the best major d1 team that he'd have a chance to "start" right out of the gate. i get the impression that "playing time" against top notch competition in a top rated conference might be more important to femi than advancing to the big dance on a team where he gets "limited" playing time... Don't mean to sound critical but, how does that make sense in anybody's book...? Not really, but hey..( shrug)...?
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Post by ohsixrain on May 4, 2018 18:33:05 GMT -5
I mean he stands a better chance to get to the dance by staying put at A&T. I can see Butler but, Hofstra and DePaul are in no better position than A&T.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on May 4, 2018 18:55:45 GMT -5
I understand what OSA is postulating..... DePaul stinks......but irrrespective of that, they are playing Butler, Xavier, Villanova, Marquette, Providence, etc. Even if they don’t win more than 10 games, if Femi can put up big numbers versus quality teams and players on a nightly basis, it could raise his NBA draft hopes.
I remember Allan Houston back in the day at Tennessee. Tennessee would get its doors blown off by everybody in the SEC, but Houston would have 25-30 points every game. He parlayed that into getting drafted very high.
Could that be Femi’s thinking? I don’t know....but I get the angle OSA is coming from.
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on May 4, 2018 19:12:25 GMT -5
I understand what OSA is postulating..... DePaul stinks......but irrrespective of that, they are playing Butler, Xavier, Villanova, Marquette, Providence, etc. Even if they don’t win more than 10 games, if Femi can put up big numbers versus quality teams and players on a nightly basis, it could raise his NBA draft hopes. I remember Allan Houston back in the day at Tennessee. Tennessee would get its doors blown off by everybody in the SEC, but Houston would have 25-30 points every game. He parlayed that into getting drafted very high. Could that be Femi’s thinking? I don’t know....but I get the angle OSA is coming from. That's what I'm thinking, too. But I'm ready to turn the page on the chapter at this point.
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Post by ohsixrain on May 5, 2018 15:22:08 GMT -5
I am definitely not dream-killing, I wish him the best. However, I still believe he should make decisions on a realistic landscape. If he is a baller, the NBA will have someone in Greensboro eyeing him every night. So, that should be the baseline by which he makes his decisions. If he has a better opportunity to be seen much like Pack and Hunt...fine. But Depaul...? Just seems he made his road tougher if not the same. My 2 cents...
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Post by oleschoolaggie on May 8, 2018 10:09:49 GMT -5
personally, i don't think his decision was about making the nba. femi is a very long way from being an nba caliber baller. i think its moreso about playing in a highly rated highly promoted d1 conference to measure himself against top notch competition or to perhaps fill a lifelong dream to play in a top d1 conference.
to me, it doesn't really matter "why" he made the decision to transfer as long as he's happy with his decision. even if he made his decision by "flipping a coin", i could care less as long as he's happy. "everybody" is entitled to make their own decisions in life. so just because he decided to leave our beloved alma mater is no reason to hate on the brutha.
there's plenty of former aggie undergrads who decided to transfer elsewhere, do we hate on them too? no we don't hate regular students who transfer because they aren't star athletes who played sports at a&t. if femi hadn't played sports or if he had sat at the end of the bench at a&t, not a single soul on this message board would say "shiggidy" about him transferring...
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Post by bigpeete1 on May 8, 2018 10:20:28 GMT -5
NEXT MAN UP!
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Post by ohsixrain on May 8, 2018 11:20:26 GMT -5
Well, not debating the fact he can go where he chooses...on some level everyone should be making or makes decisions that will place you in better position to achieve your goals. Again, I don't know what his goals are as far as basketball but, one would assume that when an individual makes the decision to transfer up they are trying to make it to the next level beyond where they are...
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Post by oleschoolaggie on May 8, 2018 13:43:00 GMT -5
Well, not debating the fact he can go where he chooses...on some level everyone should be making or makes decisions that will place you in better position to achieve your goals. Again, I don't know what his goals are as far as basketball but, one would assume that when an individual makes the decision to transfer up they are trying to make it to the next level beyond where they are... ohsix, a lot of athletes have this thing about "level of play" in college. its like a "status symbol" to them, meaning the higher the level of competition they compete at (i.e., major d1, midmajor d1, d2, d3, naia), the more respect they get. not saying they all think that way, just that a lot of them do. for example, if one kid says he played college basketball in the "acc" and another kid says he played in the "meac" or the "ciaa", which of those two do you think would get the most "respect" and "street cred" for their abilities? just like some folks buy a mercedes benz or a bmw as a "status symbol" (even though they can't afford to), athletes use their level of play as a "status symbol". sometimes (not all the time) that weighs heavy in an athlete's decision to transfer to a higher profile school/conference...
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on Mar 4, 2021 15:21:52 GMT -5
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Post by ohsixrain on Mar 4, 2021 16:34:31 GMT -5
He has really improved his quickness and he attacks the basket with a lot more power.
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Post by saab9002man on Mar 5, 2021 21:30:10 GMT -5
Well, not debating the fact he can go where he chooses...on some level everyone should be making or makes decisions that will place you in better position to achieve your goals. Again, I don't know what his goals are as far as basketball but, one would assume that when an individual makes the decision to transfer up they are trying to make it to the next level beyond where they are... ohsix, a lot of athletes have this thing about "level of play" in college. its like a "status symbol" to them, meaning the higher the level of competition they compete at (i.e., major d1, midmajor d1, d2, d3, naia), the more respect they get. not saying they all think that way, just that a lot of them do. for example, if one kid says he played college basketball in the "acc" and another kid says he played in the "meac" or the "ciaa", which of those two do you think would get the most "respect" and "street cred" for their abilities? just like some folks buy a mercedes benz or a bmw as a "status symbol" (even though they can't afford to), athletes use their level of play as a "status symbol". sometimes (not all the time) that weighs heavy in an athlete's decision to transfer to a higher profile school/conference... I agree with everything you stated but " Street Cred" you have to earn Street Cred . You either have it before you leave for college or you earn it when you come back home . Street Ballers could careless it you played in the ACC you have to prove you can play at the Drew are Ruckers for you old heads . Hale I remember when Mc had that Pro-Am Summer League at Windsor Center. Mc coached the team Gene Littles and a few other Pro's on the other team was June Harris and a number of his teammates from A&T as they were warning up in walked a of Greensboro and Dudley basketball with a pair of Converse All Stars Chuck Taylor version . His name as we knew him in the street was (MUD TAP ) Mc and Gene knew Tap and told the other to look out for him Tap had 44 PT 14 assist and 10 rebounds in a 110 to 100 ball game . Tap enrolled at Tee but never played a game left the team . He ended up working at Tee buildings and grounds I think . So getting street Cred just because you played in college don't mean squat until you prove yourself .
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