congratulations to:
*****mike montgomery
*****travis decuire
*****gregg gottlieb
*****john montgomery
*****theo robertson
*****jay john
*****cal academic tutors
for successfully cleaning up the ben braun academic cesspool as evidenced by the bb team's recent apr of 955...with the current roster of true student athletes, this # is likely to escalate toward 1000 in the future
who are these bears?
alan crabbe-3.3 gpa@price (honorary team member/current playing w/portland trail blazers)
justin cobbs-3.39 gpa@bishop montgomery
richard solomon-3.5 gpa@price
david kravish-4.1 gpa@lee's summit north
tyrone wallace-3.5 gpa@bakersfield
ricky kreklow-3.72 gpa@rocky bridge
jeff powers-excellent student@delasalle
garrett galvin-4.0 gpa@torrey pines
jabari bird-3.0+gpa@salesian
jordan mathews-3.55 gpa@santa monica
sam singer-3.4 gpa@ransom everglades
kameron rooks-3.5 gpa@mission hills
roger moute a bidias-3.0+ gpa@notre dame
amhaad rorie-3.6 gpa@lincoln & montverde academy
idrissa diallo-3.4 gpa@cathedral
cal fans can expect every player listed above to either leave cal with a degree and/or a nba contract...hopefully the bears' future nba players will eventually return to cal like former nba all star shareef abdur rahim, 3.8 gpa@cal, to graduate
of the 300+ ncaa d1 bb teams, cal is among the most academically elite programs along with duke, stanford, the ivy leagues & the service academies
the above is the MOST IMPORTANT stat sheet in cal basketball
cal family#
50 yr decision#
this is the difference between basketball factories that use up & then discard their workers (leaving them unemployable on the streets) and legitimate collegiate instituions of higher learning with an academic purpose
*****************************************************
mike montgomery noted today at his press conference that travis decuire has been the key to turning around the "academic thing" at cal...td has been responsible for hiring the learning specialists and "making sure that are kids are in a position to graduate"
the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world
******************************************************
nicky d & his crew (john wilton & sandy barbour) are doing their due diligence with the cal bb hc national search
any coach who has led his team to sweet sixteen appearances should be fully evaluated
the following should be a KEY selection tool for evaluating xavier's chris mack:
*****chris mack should provide the selection committee a complete listing like the one above with the hs gpas of all of his current players
if mack has recruited the type of student athletes like travis decuire has recruited that can compete both in the pac 12 & the classrooms of cal, his candidacy should be seriously further evaluated
if mack has recruited a bunch of athletic 2.5 hs gpa stoopid dumb azzs to an academically mediocre school like xavier that have won a ton of basketball games, then his name can be crossed of the list
cal basketball has a 50 yr track record of unsuccessfully (other than mike montgomery's 6 yr run) trying to build winning programs with borderline student athletes, it won't work in Berkeley
where's chris mack's players hs gpa list?
**************************************************************
chris mack signed a highly regarded 2012 class of 4 players:
*****samaj christen (led the team with 17 ppg & recently declared for the nba draft)
*****myles davis
*****jalen reynolds
*****james farr
all 4 players attended prep schools for a yr before enrolling at xavier because they were borderline ncaa academically eligible
cal is different than Xavier...recruiting 2.5 hs gpa stoopid dumb azzs won't
work in Berkeley
do your ******* homework#
*****************************************************
chris, i've done my homework
your players gpas have been checked & there are xavier alumni & faculty that have noted that you have recruited non student athletes with low hs gpas, funneled them thru non academic prep schools for a yr where they have received the necessary artificial high grades in order to meet ncaa eligibility guidelines & then won a ton of games with these guys
that **** won't work in berkeley
i would suggest you use cal's interest to negotiate more $ from xavier & finish up building your dream home in your (and your wife lori's) hometown dayton while hopefully leading xavier to more sweet sixteens & better
your highly successful scheme won't work in california