Anyone know why DeVonte is not going to Northwestern with the team?
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He just said he hasn't got any confirmation from IU, only texts from people claiming they have sources inside the program.
It's being reported by multiple outlets that he didn't make the trip--but not why. Some are speculating on twitter about a 3 game suspension, which suggests drug tests...but nothing concrete has been reported by a credible journalist on the "why" question.
Could have accidently picked up Ryan Cline's gym bag on the way out of Mackey. Hey, hey.
I'm still freaking out how much the form on his shot resembled that of Rick Mount's. I thought that to myself even before the announcers mentioned it.
Only a dumbass would use drugs during a season. They know they can be pulled aside at any moment and be tested. My cousin played D2 basketball at Illinois-Springfield. After a game I was at, an NCAA official followed him into the locker room to be tested. It isn't just D1 players, but anyone can be tested.
It would piss me off if I am busting my ass to have a good season and learn someone is smoking weed or something else and risking suspension. I can't remember a season we have had with a positive drug test being successful. I would test the entire team. I want to know who the dumbass players are. If they are dumb off the court they are generally dumb on it.
Troy Williams, Stan Robinson, Hollowell, Hanner. Green fits in nicely with this group.
It would piss me off if I am busting my ass to have a good season and learn someone is smoking weed or something else and risking suspension. I can't remember a season we have had with a positive drug test being successful. I would test the entire team. I want to know who the dumbass players are. If they are dumb off the court they are generally dumb on it.
Troy Williams, Stan Robinson, Hollowell, Hanner. Green fits in nicely with this group.
Sadly true.
Selfish.
He would rather enjoy partying with a banned substance over his team commitment to staying eligible. If true, then Green let the team down.
Not only does this show complete lack of respect toward the team and program, this is the actions of a player who is one of the veterans - only player with more time in the program is Juwan. You would hope that a 3rd-year player would have matured enough by now to show better judgment than this - especially in lieu of how IU's play has been of late and how the focus of every player - ESPECIALLY the vets - should be on what they need to do to improve and not be involved in things that would distract from that objective.
Would not bother me in the least if Archie tosses him.
There is a window in the year you can use all the drugs you want and not worry about a test. I kind of hope it happened during the holiday break. Players returning home to a state with legal weed is a new thing to worry about. Fitzner, Davis?
Call me an idiot but I think this helps us tonight. This team needed something to wake itself up. Get Anderson in the game. Romeo will have to handle the ball more. Addition by subtraction.
I wonder if this is a team / university commitment during an athletic season? And irregardless if you used a banned substance in Indiana that is legal somewhere else, it is likely in the fine print in the agreement, that you are ineligible for at least 3 games. Legalizing weed in individual states does not make it legal in the entire United States. And it does not over-rule an agreed upon legal document for urine testing. It would be like if I visted Colorado or California and used legal weed in those states, then came back from vacation and got drug tested, I would still lose my security clearance and my job.
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Yes, a good thing, but not as good of thing as not having foul and three point line shooters. There's a reason IU is one of the top 2-pt field goal shooting teams in the country. Have you seen our players dunk? It's quite a show, a real crowd-pleasing performance....for the disgruntled fans in the stands having to watch the sh*t-show they've been forced to view, just because they're the loyal ones. I do hope we win tonight, I really do. If not, I'll still watch on Friday night, just with not as much interest so as not to get so upset that I have a restless night of sleep, like just about any defeat did back in the days of The Disciplinarian, as a relatively few of us here still recall.
We will have to watch the game tonight and next 3 games or more to see if this is true. But this might wake up the team into seriousness and reality. It is possible, that this could be a case of Addition by Subtraction.
I literally just said yesterday that we need to move Romeo to PG to try and shake things up. This kind of forces that hand a little. If Devonte is truly suspended or transferring, good riddance. Just foolish.
If the NCAA made aspirin a banned substance, it wouldn't matter if it was legal.
I was told there is a lot of testing done at tournaments where a lot of teams can be tested. They don't travel to a kid's house in the off season or show up at the university during the summer. If you play college basketball, you will know when testing can occur.
That's one of the reasons that "window in the year you can use all the drugs you want and not worry about a test" is listed as item #23 in the book you get when you call it quits..."100 Ways To Enjoy Retirement". What you learn is, that "window" of yours now never closes. Holiday is all the day, every day for the rest of your life. There are no pop quizzes, no judgements (until the Final Judgement, but that's a whole different story) no tests to fret for fail, ever again! Rainy days and Mondays never again find you down! The only thing that brings me down now is poorly executed IU basketball, unlike what I remember it to nearly always be.
As it is possible, that this could be a case of Addiction now Subtracted.
I am in favor of him playing PG. He did one game and the team had trouble defending him. He is a little loose with the ball, but he learns fast.
