Post by melisas63 on Aug 16, 2009 22:23:15 GMT -6
From Nick Baumgardner's Blog!
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I just got off the phone with Terrence Boyd, who was released from his scholarship this afternoon.
Here are a few of the quotes he had on the matter:
“From my side of it, it wasn’t the right fit,” he said. “A player with a whole bunch of baggage coming into a university – I say baggage meaning assumptions people have made about me – and trying to be molded into a prodigy in four weeks is a difficult task.”
“Coming off of not playing for two years, not being around any type of basketball structure with a team or coach, they wanted me to become this marketable, smile all time time type of player.
“But I’m not that kind of guy, I don’t like to pretend to be anybody I’m not.”
Boyd said he’s not interested in taking any junior college transfer rout at this point, and that he’ll start trying to find another university to play at immediately.
I also spoke with Ken McDonald on the matter, here are some of his comments:
“It’s pretty cut and dry, both sides came to a point where it was time to move on and have him find a situation that was a better fit.”
“It’s just a combination of things over time,” he said. “He’s got a bright future if he takes care of his business and we wish him well. I’m not going to get into full detail of all of it but we decided it was best for him that he find another situation.
“And he was for that.”
“It’s disappointing from the sense that you had high hopes for certain individuals but we have a huge class still,” he said. “Sometimes it’s a blessing, that’s why we bring kids in during the summer. You find out who you can depend on and who is going to buy into your program and those types of things.
“We’re going to be fine. I’m still just as excited as I was when the whole class signed.”
Here are a few of the quotes he had on the matter:
“From my side of it, it wasn’t the right fit,” he said. “A player with a whole bunch of baggage coming into a university – I say baggage meaning assumptions people have made about me – and trying to be molded into a prodigy in four weeks is a difficult task.”
“Coming off of not playing for two years, not being around any type of basketball structure with a team or coach, they wanted me to become this marketable, smile all time time type of player.
“But I’m not that kind of guy, I don’t like to pretend to be anybody I’m not.”
Boyd said he’s not interested in taking any junior college transfer rout at this point, and that he’ll start trying to find another university to play at immediately.
I also spoke with Ken McDonald on the matter, here are some of his comments:
“It’s pretty cut and dry, both sides came to a point where it was time to move on and have him find a situation that was a better fit.”
“It’s just a combination of things over time,” he said. “He’s got a bright future if he takes care of his business and we wish him well. I’m not going to get into full detail of all of it but we decided it was best for him that he find another situation.
“And he was for that.”
“It’s disappointing from the sense that you had high hopes for certain individuals but we have a huge class still,” he said. “Sometimes it’s a blessing, that’s why we bring kids in during the summer. You find out who you can depend on and who is going to buy into your program and those types of things.
“We’re going to be fine. I’m still just as excited as I was when the whole class signed.”