Rumor Alert: Brackman To Give Up Basketball This Season

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We want to be extremely cautious about positioning this without any misunderstaning.

This entry is designed to share a RUMOR that SFN has NOT yet completely confirmed.

But, SFN has been informed by multiple sources in the last ten days that NC State’s Andrew Brackman will forego basketball this season to focus exclusively on his baseball career.

After picking up a lot of “smoke” related to the topic, we have chosen to share this rumor after hearing more substantial specifics regarding the situation from someone close to the baseball team over the weekend. Brackman wants/needs to focus 100% of his energy on the sport where he is most likely to play professionally – which is definitely baseball.

An annoucement is expected sometime this week, potentially in the next couple of days.

We HOPE that this information turns out to be untrue because the basketball team needs as many experienced bodies as they can gather for next season.

We will have more informatoin, opinion, and analysis on this as the week progresses.

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68 Responses to Rumor Alert: Brackman To Give Up Basketball This Season

  1. packpigskinfan23 07/18/2006 at 8:52 AM #

    Hey, no problem redfred2… what you said was absolutley true!

    JeremyH- I never got to see the video of the confrence… I was actully sitting in the student center watching a Hurricanes game(sorry… I have 3 loves. Wolfpack, NHL, and NFL). I can only imagine Grant’s face did light up. Some of the moves that him and Fells pulled off at the end of last year really got me excited for what WAS to come this year. Of course that is all diffrent now… BUT we will still see that excitment from Grant… and Fells. I cant wait.

  2. redfred2 07/18/2006 at 9:46 AM #

    Brackman was just fun and exciting to watch. DAMN IT!!!

  3. vtpackfan 07/18/2006 at 10:15 AM #

    As far as having his scholly open now, is pg still the positon we need to focus on the most. PF Tracy Smith from Mt. Zion is really moving up the charts, way up. Lately with all the chatter with diploma mills out there to research I’ve seen Mt. Zions name pop up for potentially being on the list for investigation. It won’t matter to most schools but with the UNC systems high bar coming into play to go along with the extra scrutiny a players transcript from one of these schools get, this homestate prep probably won’t be mentioned here in the future.

  4. vtpackfan 07/18/2006 at 10:19 AM #

    I also read that Jerai Grant. ’07 PF from DeMatha is the son of ex-NBA player Harvey, and nephew or Horace. Any links that anyone knows between them and Sid from his coaching years. Getting some news on McMillan and Grant, anything, could help in the near future.

  5. packbackr04 07/18/2006 at 10:48 AM #

    vtpackfan: agreed we have alot of holes to fill. also thx for the info on Towes UNO recruits. Sounds like they cant really help us now. I asked earlier and at the risk of being repetitive, is all hope for Farnold Degans eligibility for this year gone too? didnt he have an appeal in to the NCAA?

  6. redfred2 07/18/2006 at 1:08 PM #

    vt, I am pretty sure Brackman is on a baseball scholarship and his decision will not create another opening.

    I am really interested to know what is going with Gavin Grant. Are there any details about the specifics in his case available anywhere? I would think that the whole of the ACC, the UNC system, would be stepping in and throwing their weight around if this is a simple paper problem with nothing else involved. It’s my understanding that he has been in the country since the age of nine, I don’t think he drove himself here. Someone else is responsible for the illegalities if there are any involved. Also, he is now married to a US citizen. Strange.

  7. RickJ 07/18/2006 at 1:38 PM #

    ^ “vt, I am pretty sure Brackman is on a baseball scholarship and his decision will not create another opening.�

    Brackman has always been on a basketball scholarship. D1 basketball scholarships have to be full scholarships while D1 baseball teams have less than 12 scholarships divided among the entire roster. I think a 50% ride in baseball is considered to be very high. For this reason, I can’t see Brackman giving up his basketball scholarship for a baseball one. This would also hurt baseball because he would be taking funds from other baseball players. In my opinion, this gives credence to the above comments about Brackman remaining with the basketball team in some capacity in order to keep his full ride.

    I have no inside information about Brackman and what is going on but I’m pretty confident about the scholarship issue.

  8. yannes 07/18/2006 at 1:45 PM #

    Yes, Brackman is on a basketball scholarship. We will know more about his situation later in the week.

    redfred:
    Why would the UNC system care? The case has been continued partially due to the hopes that an amnesty bill will pass congress. Grant will be around when school starts, but after that we will have to see what happens with legislation and the court case. No real information is out there.

  9. redfred2 07/18/2006 at 3:04 PM #

    Sorry, I was wrong on the baseball/bb scholarship. I remember the recruiting, brain cramp.

    Yannes, Maybe I’m just naive as hell, but I think that if you have a child brought into this country by his parents or whomever, he didn’t come here on his own at nine years old either way, and that kid is trying to better himself by being involved in your academic system/athletic conference then it would just be taken for granted that he deserves some help and special consideration. I say that whether he is an athlete or not.

    If you have read any of my earlier posts you know the type of “illegal” that I think they should be targeting. They are a millions to one in comparison to the ones like Grant, who are improving their lives and will someday legally contribute to our society.

  10. yannes 07/18/2006 at 3:39 PM #

    “Yannes, Maybe I’m just naive as hell, but I think that if you have a child brought into this country by his parents or whomever, he didn’t come here on his own at nine years old either way, and that kid is trying to better himself by being involved in your academic system/athletic conference then it would just be taken for granted that he deserves some help and special consideration. I say that whether he is an athlete or not.”
    Oh I agree completely, but “justice is blind” you know? The law says that people cannot immigrate illegally into the country regardless of who brought you, what you do in the country, etc. The federal government alleges that he came here illegally so they are prosecuting him like they would anyone else that came here illegally. Had he not had this high profile of being an ACC basketball player, probably nobody would ever have noticed.
    Grant is married (to a US citizen), has a child (also a US citizen), and is getting a college education. He has not caused any problems in the US and he probably should be given amnesty. Then again, plenty of illegal immigrants are in a similar situation as him. If the court decides to give Grant amnesty (assuming that he did enter illegally), then they will have to start giving these others amnesty. Is that the precedent that US government wants to set? I’m fine with amnesty, but it appears that plenty of people are uncomfortable with that prospect (like this deeply misguided individual: http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2005/10/illegal_immigra_1.html).

  11. packbackr04 07/18/2006 at 3:59 PM #

    i hate to keep beating this dead horse, and maybe this has been discussed and i missed it but, what chance is there, if any, of Farnold Degan playing this year(2006)? last i heard he was appealing NCAA ruling that he has to sit out a year. His appeal was based on the inproprieties/sanctions of Iowa State???? anyone?

  12. packpigskinfan23 07/18/2006 at 4:20 PM #

    I would just hope that the US government could see how much Grant really has bettered his life. His parents brought him here for that. He lived, and worked his way out of Brooklyn!! Look at him now! A seemingly intelligent young man, with talent… who COULD go on to the next level with a couple more years of hard work. Does the fact that he has a wife and child who are Citizens not automatically make him one? I am not sure what exactly the laws are, but I thought being direct family of citizens(at least in the form of marrige) game you the right to be in the country…..

  13. yannes 07/18/2006 at 4:26 PM #

    “Does the fact that he has a wife and child who are Citizens not automatically make him one?”
    Nope, however it does give you a case to apply for a marriage visa. If all it took to be a citizen was to have a child in the US, then a lot more “illegals” would be legal now. The process for those visas are usually fairly lengthy.

    “what chance is there, if any, of Farnold Degand playing this year”
    Very, very little. Maybe a glimmer of hope, but I wouldn’t count on it at this point.

  14. packbackr04 07/18/2006 at 4:40 PM #

    thanks yannes, man that would be huge though, although i dont know much about him. I heard that some players had been getting appeals through stating that the school they were leaving was facing sanctions? cant remember where i heard that though, maybe they were oklahoma players leaving after sampson, and the impending sanctions??? what does farnold need to be eligible?

  15. yannes 07/18/2006 at 4:47 PM #

    “although i dont know much about him”
    He’s playing in the Chavis league, go down and see him tonight. He has been described as D-Wade with a handle. I think that he will be a huge PG. By all accounts he has great speed and basketball IQ. He really benefitted by RSing and practicing for a year against two NBA bound guards (Stinson and Blalock) at Iowa State. Unlike a true freshman (Chris Wright included) he will be able to come in and start from day 1.

    His appeal has no positive precedent that I know of so it is unlikely that he will set a new precedent. I haven’t heard about the Oklahoma players. You never know, though.

  16. redfred2 07/18/2006 at 5:28 PM #

    Yannes, I didnt read anything but the page heading and very quickly scrolled the page of your thread. I will read later this evening. Thanks. SFN doesn’t want me, or anyone to weigh in on that in this forum, but I will try to slip a short response.

    When worldwide, state sponsored terrorism and illegal inflow into this country are absolutely in check, honest immigrants shouldn’t have any problems and will be welcomed as US citizens once again.

    You tell me, what are the odds in that?

  17. redfred2 07/19/2006 at 3:13 PM #

    Yannes, SFN will probably quickly delete this, and rightfully so, but I felt you deserved a response.

    I read over a several articles and associated links and I sympathize with innocent and good individuals caught up it in right now. I guess this country can no longer afford to be the wide opened welcoming beacon of freedom to the world which was once separated us from the rest, and was a great source pride. Our hand has been brutally forced by groups of foreign terrorist, people who want only to do innocent people anywhere in the world harm and for whatever their reason. The people caught in limbo within our borders right now need to stop and think really, really long and hard about that fact, and why they came in the first place, and not let their unanswered desires to remain here without completing proper legal process, overrule their common sense, which already knows why all of this is taking place now. This tightening has all evolved from foreign acts of terrorism going way, way back and which are finally forcing us to change and be more close guarded, probably not unlike the countries many of the “illegals” readily left behind to get here. Anyone’s denial of that long history of events leading up to the present is totally unfair to this country, and if it happens, will probably lead to more undeserved hatred of America by many “illegals” right here within our borders right now. Seems like maybe it already has.

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    […] State Fans Nation went with a rumor earlier in the week, saying they had been informed by multiple sources Brackman will forego basketball this season to focus exclusively on his baseball career. David Glenn (850 / 620, ACC Sports Journal…you should know this by now), discussed the subject midweek saying that those around B-Rack all agree baseball is his ultimate choice. The Cape Cod Times sat down with Brackman recently, and got this quote: ‘Baseball takes away from basketball and basketball takes away from baseball. If I had focused on one, I would have been a lot better. I don’t see ever giving up baseball. […]

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