Trouble for the U$C* Basketball team?

by impaulv on Jun 1, 2009 11:37 PM PDT Comment 22 comments

Trouble in TrOJieTown? In the latest news, looks like senior Marcus Johnson will be jumping ship and going pro...

According Scott Wolf, Johnson told Floyd he will be going to the NBA. This after being granted an extra season of eligibility.

I'm not sure how to view this. Is he hard up for cash? Does he know something about the $C* bball program? Does he really hate school?

Making this even more interesting, in my opinion, is the fact that Johnson doesn't have a very deep body of work. Next year was suppose to be his time to shine looking at the depleted $C* bench. He transfers from UConn, has some issues, plays decently. Why go pro right now? Definitely not 1st rounder, and most likely not even 2nd round. Interesting... Guess there's just more room for Lil Romeo to shine!

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The short answer is:

Is he hard up for cash? Does he know something about the $C* bball program? Does he really hate school?

Yes.

He’s a Trojan.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden

by MexiBruin on Jun 1, 2009 11:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Can you really blame him?

With the roof ready to collapse on the entire Athletic Department.

Boy oh boy will $C basketball be junk next year

by Sideout11 on Jun 1, 2009 11:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

By my count, that leaves them with 6 players available at this moment….

by impaulv on Jun 2, 2009 12:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

But they've got Lil Romeo

Everything will be just fine.

by Tydides on Jun 2, 2009 1:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is it odd that a USC* alum is the basketball program's harshest critic?

Check out this article. Are things even worse in Troy than we suspected? Ouch…

by impaulv on Jun 2, 2009 5:18 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Meh

Not sure how harsh that criticism really is when we read observations like this:

I know Floyd to be a smart, shrewd person. And directly paying cash to a handler is neither smart nor shrewd.

That falls in line with predicted excuse number 3.

by Nestor on Jun 2, 2009 5:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Still, nice to see some form of journalist at least willing to talk about what’s going on. You have to know that the LAT would be salivating at the mouth if anything remotely similar was reported at UCLA…

by impaulv on Jun 2, 2009 5:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow, Wolf. Didn't know you had it in you.

He makes Floyd sound like Lavin. Complete lack of leadership.

*But at least Lavin had several sweet sixteens"

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden

by MexiBruin on Jun 2, 2009 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rats leaving the sinking ship

The LAT confirmed impaulv’s scoop this morning.

Apparently, Floyd’s players aren’t stupid: they know they need to get out of that program and pronto.

Unfortunately, there are only about 3 people at SC* who actually care about the basketball program. The good news is that we will continue to own Pauley East.

One question: Petey recently commented that sports programs at the top draw the greatest scrutiny. I may have missed something, but the gap-closers haven’t been near the top of anything since, um, well, since never. Do programs which are consistently mediocre also draw the greatest scrutiny? Maybe some hard-hitting journalist will ask Petey this question.

A final question: Surely Floyd has seen the writing on the wall for some time now. Why didn’t he take the Arizona job?

by Barnes2JJ on Jun 2, 2009 8:21 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

last line echos my thoughts

Free Brandon Wood!

by gorams77 on Jun 2, 2009 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, if you know you are a shaddy character

then it may make sense to stay at the school with the best legal department.

by bornagainbruin on Jun 2, 2009 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Assuming

that he was in fact the one who turned down Arizona, and not the other way around…maybe they just let him save face, knowing that his downfall was coming anyway…

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Jun 2, 2009 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That seems highly

unlikely as most organizations do not operate in such a manner. They had no reason to try to ‘save’ Timmeh’s reputation, and thus would not provide such a courtesy at their own expense. It seems more reasonable that he knew that the hammer would follow him into the dessert anyways, so why not stay close to home where he has u$c*’s legal department squarely behind him.

B.F.

by eubruin on Jun 2, 2009 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

ack, sarcasm is easily lost on the uninitiated reader - sorry tasser.

B.F.

by eubruin on Jun 2, 2009 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah the whole notion of Floyd not taking the Arizona job

is almost as funny as ucla7477’s Simon/Garfunkel parody.

Yeah … Timmeh turned down a gig at Zona to stay at Pauley East … uh hum … Sure Timmeh.

by Nestor on Jun 3, 2009 5:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Birds of a Feather.....

Leave it to Timmie to follow up Cheatie’s pasting of an underclassman going pro with a nice rant of his own. From the Sporting news.

Forward Marcus Johnson became the fourth USC basketball player to forego college eligibility and enter the NBA Draft — news that didn’t sit well with head coach Tim Floyd.

“Kansas has two players who would have been NBA lottery picks, Cole Aldrich and Sherron Collins, and they are returning to school,” Floyd told the Los Angeles Times. “Good for them. Our guys get an offer from Islamabad and they’re gone.”

by bornagainbruin on Jun 3, 2009 10:54 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs