The Holy Land of Hoops

He has been ruled a partial qualifier per multiple sources. Can practice but can't play. To the Johnnies on this board, OUCH.

Its gonna be a long year for the Johnnies, hopefully it wont effect recruiting.

I can't remember, does this now cost him a year of eligibility or can he earn it back?

Every single year, St. John's has issues like this.

Ugh. Tough news for SJU fans. Gonna be a looooooong year.

stever20 wrote:I can't remember, does this now cost him a year of eligibility or can he earn it back?

This was a long time ago but I think the same rule still applies. Anthony Perry (St. Anthony's) went through the same thing at Georgetown 97-98 (freshman season). He was able to keep his scholarship and practice but, only had three years of eligibility beginning his sophomore season 98-99.

I also hope it doesn't hurt recruiting also. I guess their future starting backcourt will arrive together (Lovett & Ponds) along with big man Yawke. They have no true point guard this year. Of all the recruits this is the one they needed the most. Somebody is going to have to step up and help Mussini because I have a feeling his milk money is going to get stolen during BEast season.

Ricky Ledo

MackNova wrote:Every single year, St. John's has issues like this.

These things aren't randomly distributed. They just follow recruiting marginal kids. If you don't want the worry, don't recruit marginal kids. If you do, you tacitly accept this

BigmanU wrote:

stever20 wrote:I can't remember, does this now cost him a year of eligibility or can he earn it back?

This was a long time ago but I think the same rule still applies. Anthony Perry (St. Anthony's) went through the same thing at Georgetown 97-98 (freshman season). He was able to keep his scholarship and practice but, only had three years of eligibility beginning his sophomore season 98-99.

I also hope it doesn't hurt recruiting also. I guess their future starting backcourt will arrive together (Lovett & Ponds) along with big man Yawke. They have no true point guard this year. Of all the recruits this is the one they needed the most. Somebody is going to have to step up and help Mussini because I have a feeling his milk money is going to get stolen during BEast season.

I thought they changed it where if you meet requirements after a certain point, you get the year of eligibility back. I could totally be wrong of course.

BigmanU wrote:

stever20 wrote:I can't remember, does this now cost him a year of eligibility or can he earn it back?

This was a long time ago but I think the same rule still applies. Anthony Perry (St. Anthony's) went through the same thing at Georgetown 97-98 (freshman season). He was able to keep his scholarship and practice but, only had three years of eligibility beginning his sophomore season 98-99.

I also hope it doesn't hurt recruiting also. I guess their future starting backcourt will arrive together (Lovett & Ponds) along with big man Yawke. They have no true point guard this year. Of all the recruits this is the one they needed the most. Somebody is going to have to step up and help Mussini because I have a feeling his milk money is going to get stolen during BEast season.

This year will be a pass for Mullin, with Lovett here I was hoping to match the 2011 team of 13 wins. Now we probably won't win 10. I won't put this on Mullin, he was hired in April and had only a few months to put this team together. The only good thing about this year is the players who return next year will get alot of burn this year.

Next year Lovett (will still have his 4 years here if he doesn't leave early), Ponds, and Yakwe. We're now in Thon's top 6, we're still good with Bashir, and who knows with Rawle.
Long year but will enjoy watching these kids grow.