You can find all of this in the: "Wrongful Speculation by Scoopers" Thread I started back at the end of May.. (which I called out Golden Avalanche for speculating/saying that Newbill would be going to Prep School - or not make it to MU - egg on my face for sure now!) Litehouse84 did a good job of grabbing the nuggets of information that were significant pertaining to the Newbill/preps school debate...and I've copied pasted his analysis below
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Re: DJ Newbill
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The highlights in here from my perspective...
Quote from: The Golden Avalanche on May 26, 2010, 11:27:17 AM
I'll write this and walk off into the sunset (hoping the mods delete the thread): the chapter on spring recruiting and adding members to next year's team is not yet over.
People obviously knew what was going on with Newbill.
Quote from: PhillyCoach on May 26, 2010, 12:11:17 PM
its funny how people say things out of ignorance but in case some dont know signing national letter of intent and scholarship papers is a legally binding contract with both parties and before any school sends out the nli or scholarship papers ie contracts the players sat scores and transcript must be reviewed by the universities ncaa complience person who then gives the coaching staff a yea or neh on whether this kid will be qualified by the clearinghouse. If yea scholarship papers are sent to the kid and signed then sat scores and hs transcripts are sent to the ncaa clearinghouse at the time of the signing and again after the kid graduates for final approval. This is done for two reason prob more but the main two r to check core course gpa and align it with the sat score and to make sure each univ or college hav the correct amount of scholarships thats aloted. To go to a prep the kid who is qualified would hav to agree to give up his schollie or it would b a breach of contract. Dj wil be an eagle for sure.
PhillyCoach sure seems to be trying really hard to convince everyone that DJ is coming no matter what because he signed the NLI, almost like MU will be forced to take him. It doesn't matter what conditions were laid out before he signed, those don't matter anymore because they have the signed NLI. MU can't take away the scholie unless they agree, and they're not going to agree.
Quote from: bma725 on May 26, 2010, 02:08:42 PM
No one has been proven wrong about anything and no one will be proven wrong about anything until first semester starts next year. It might be wise to avoid attacking people about being wrong until you see what actually happens.
When bma talks, people listen.
Quote from: PhillyCoach on May 26, 2010, 02:20:06 PM
dj doesnt know about this stuff nor does he need to know. he is very confident in himself as a student athlete and i intend on encouraging him to strive to be the best.
I'm not exactly sure if he's referring to the message board speculation or the alleged contingency deal, but either way, maybe someone should have let DJ know what was going on.
Quote from: PhillyCoach on May 26, 2010, 02:20:06 PM
I know everyone wants big men but if u noticed the game has become guard oriented quality bigs are rare on every level of the game height is needed but talent and team chemistry along with heart and hard working players is wats gona win ball games. Dj chose mu not bcuz of size or name or even the big east he chose mu bcuz he saw a coach that gets the maximum from the players and he had that all of his life so why not continue that process. I think the mu fans and coaches are going to b surprized at wat the will see in dj newbill and im not just say that bcuz im in his circle
That's the first mention of taking a big instead of DJ. It comes from PhillyCoach and it lines up with the unofficial MU version of the story. And again, he keeps hyping DJ, saying we're going to be suprised with what we see.
