Couldn’t Resist

Basketball Recruiting Football Recruiting General Quotes of Note52

Sorry…but, I couldn’t resist linking this blog entry and highlighting the comments of SEC Newcomer of the year, Patrick Beverley:

“When I signed my letter of intent to play for Arkansas, I didn’t sign to play for any particular coach. “I signed to play for the University of Arkansas.”

I think that I have a new favorite SEC player to follow.

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Basketball Recruiting Football Recruiting General Quotes of Note

52 Responses to Couldn’t Resist

  1. redfred2 04/11/2007 at 7:05 PM #

    Good lord Gene, let’s at least let Smith get here first to see what the other fans and media has to say about it, before anyone starts defending the value of a decade’s worth of “clean living.” Of course that would be not unlike, Clemson’s, GT’s, WFU’s, UNC’s, Duke’s, FSU’s, Miami’s, UVA’s, VaTech’s, BC’s, and not unlike Maryland’s decade long GLORY and HONOR of “clean living” also. If that is what it’s all about, please bring ol’ Herbie boy back, we were set already.

  2. Gene 04/12/2007 at 9:04 AM #

    Good lord Gene, let’s at least let Smith get here first to see what the other fans and media has to say about it, before anyone starts defending the value of a decade’s worth of “clean living.”

    Someone wanted to know if we’d have gotten crap for McCants, and I responed redfred2. I don’t think we’d have gotten anything negative about McCants.

    Whatever reputation we got from the end of the Valvano era of having bad kids and bad academics has been dead and buried for many years now.

    We’ve been getting the benefit of the doubt regarding the integrity of our basketball program, for several years now, which we did not get at the end of the Valvano era.

    I wasn’t really talking about Herb as a coach, but rather how the negative impression our basketball program had, in the media, at the end of the Valvano era no longer applies. We could’ve handled things better, as a program, but right now our basketball program has a good reputation and can absorb some potentially negative publicity, without any real harm to the overall perception of the program.

    The media might not be our friends, since they’re all Carolina grads, but they aren’t our enemies either.

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