Milwaukee native Trey McKinney-Jones (10.9 ppg, 3.8 rpg as a soph for UMKC in the Summit League) is released from his scholarship. Coach says Trey wants to be closer to home: http://tinyurl.com/y2uoh58. Trey was Sportscenter No. 1 on 2/26: http://tinyurl.com/y2k6tbz.
P.S. Cool name, eh? He was 18-52 (.346) in that category this season.
Interesting thing about Trey. I know his stepfather well. Went to school with him. His stepfather happens to be a prof at MU. Would he get free tuition and could he then be considered a walk-on? I remember during his recruiting process that he was not considered high majore D1 talent. He is also a guard.
The only way this would ever happen is if he doesn't use up a scholarship.
I'm all about upgrading our walk-ons.
Per his bio, guess he was offered track scholarships by Marquette and Minnesota in HS.
http://www.umkckangaroos.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=18300&ATCLID=1470341
My wager is he ends up at UWM. Looks like his step-dad is actually a prof at UW-Whitewater with tenure(although he got his Ph.D at Marquette), but I don't think that UW-Whitewater is part of the tuition arrangement that Marquette employees have for their children at other universities (for example, my old roommate's Dad is a prof at Butler, but he ended up going to Marquette because of such an agreement). If there is that possiblity, I'm just not sure how that would work with offering him a walk-on spot in terms of whether that would count against the count of 13 scholarships.
Quote from: Tom Crean's Tanning Bed on April 09, 2010, 12:09:37 PM
Per his bio, guess he was offered track scholarships by Marquette and Minnesota in HS.
http://www.umkckangaroos.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=18300&ATCLID=1470341
My wager is he ends up at UWM. Looks like his step-dad is actually a prof at UW-Whitewater with tenure(although he got his Ph.D at Marquette), but I don't think that UW-Whitewater is part of the tuition arrangement that Marquette employees have for their children at other universities (for example, my old roommate's Dad is a prof at Butler, but he ended up going to Marquette because of such an agreement). If there is that possiblity, I'm just not sure how that would work with offering him a walk-on spot in terms of whether that would count against the count of 13 scholarships.
I believe that as long as he hasn't previously been a scholarship player
at Marquette he would be good to go. Schools can recruit players as preferred walk-ons, i.e. no scholarship, so he should be able to be recruited by the coaching staff. I think that the problem occurs when a player has had a scholarship and the school finds another way to get his tuition paid like as an employee dependent or a school booster decides to pay his way, and then the school attempts to not count him against the schollie limit. MU actually took advantage to the one exception that I know of to this when Chris Crawford was drafted by the Houston Astros, and agreed to pay his tuition. That freed up a scholarship since MU had nothing to do with the Astros drafting of Chris.
Those who haven't seen it. Trey McKinney Jones is good, go to his web page: http://treymj.com He's got a visit to a ACC school this weekend. Look at the "2009 2010 Highlights.. Impressive.
DJ
He's not going to be free.. don't fool yourself.
Quote from: MarqBiggestFanDJ on April 14, 2010, 05:50:42 PM
Those who haven't seen it. Trey McKinney Jones is good, go to his web page: http://treymj.com He's got a visit to a ACC school this weekend. Look at the "2009 2010 Highlights.. Impressive.
DJ
He's not going to be free.. don't fool yourself.
Thanks Mrs. Jones.