BoBo Circus

by Koach Karl I on May 9, 2008 11:12 AM PDT

The continuing saga of BoBo (the basketball player, not the clown) is getting slightly more interesting. As everyone knows, Trent Johnson is making a push to keep BoBo at LSU by dragging his feet on processing the release request. Not much more to add here, except this quote from Johnson in The Shreveport Times (link):

"He's a very good young man, but is he by any means Shaquille O'Neal? No, he's not," Johnson said. "It's going to take it's time. I've never been in a situation where I'm going to beg."

Jill Painter also linked to it.

I am no genius when it comes to recruiting or dealing on a day-to-day basis with the psyche of "student" athletes, but it seems more than a little damaging to LSU's chances with der BoBo to come out with quotes like this one, no?

By the way, awesome new format for the site. When an old guy like me can block quote and insert links, you know it is easy. Reminds of the old days with word processing apps going from inserting formatting in the text to WYSIWYG.

WHISTLE! (as Cheatie Peetie, Jr. likes to say)

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Of course Morgan is no O'Neal

just like Johnson is no Wooden. But what a dumbass thing to say about a recruit you are trying to retain.

by bluegold on May 9, 2008 11:18 AM PDT reply actions

Hopefully it shows that

He’s not really trying to keep Morgan, just trying to save face.

by SuperBruinMan on May 9, 2008 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions

Haha I love it

Hopefully This quote is pinned up on his wall by now..by the way, how do the new formatting for diaries and posts work as far as block quotes go, did it say in the tutorial?

O.A.

by Ollie on May 9, 2008 11:35 AM PDT reply actions

Blockquote

There is a quotation mark icon at the top of the WSYWG editor that allows you to easily blockquote. Just highlight the text you want to blockquote and hit the icon and it gets blockquoted. Much easier than the old platform!

by bluestreet on May 9, 2008 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions

It's right here on comments, too.

by jaffa on May 9, 2008 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Funny

I saw that quote this morning and thought to myself – ‘There’s no going back for Trent now, he must not want this kid anymore’.

by cabz on May 9, 2008 12:41 PM PDT reply actions

From A Broader Perspective...

...this statement sounds like it is intended to reassure the LSU fans and the rest of the team members, and to show them that their new coach isn’t going to get caught up in this kind of drama over one indecisive player, even if he is a potential star.

Love My Bruins

by Bruingirl83 on May 9, 2008 2:09 PM PDT reply actions

Agreed

Everyone is playing to multiple audiences in this story. It’s one of the reasons I’ve never been able to get too interested in the day to day nuts and bolts of recruiting. It’s just so unpredictable and wild and there are so many mixed messages.

by Menelaus on May 9, 2008 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions