Potrykus comments on Blue - interesting

[ChicosBailBonds]

http://buckyville.yuku.com/topic/23538/t/Nankivil-Memorial-coach-on-Blue.html

[Nukem2]

As the beat writer for UW BB this year, Potrykus really should not be posting on Badger message boards.

[Pakuni]

I see Bo Ryan's lapdog/errand boy (aka Rob Schultz) is at it again. It's stunning to see someone with so little professional integrity.

Love the comments from Hughes about how Bo narrows the numbers of players he recruits based on character. Guess they already forgot about Diamond Taylor and Jeremy Glover.

[ChicosBailBonds]

As the beat writer for UW BB this year, Potrykus really should not be posting on Badger message boards.

He does it all the time, on all three of their boards.

[Nukem2]

He does it all the time, on all three of their boards.

I know.  But, this year he is the beat writer for Bucky BB replacing Mark Stewart.

[NotAnAlum]

Why are these guys so convinced that UW is so difficult academically.  When did they become the Stanford of the midwest?  As a huge University, UW has some hard courses of study but they also have some very easy ways through.  In that respect its much easier to find an easier path because there is so much more to chose from.  These writers may have forgotton that UW has a football team.  My kids have gone to school with football players who went to UW and they said they can't believe these kids made it through ANY college.  
This Academic argument seems to me to be a big crutch that fans use to explain why their team is at a disadvantage.  I know that we even used to use it in the Mike Deane days.  Now its true that there are a handful of kids who shouldn't be in college and a handful of schools how basically make up classes for them to take but the majority of D-1 programs face the same challenges and both UW and MU are in the majority and roughly equal.

[Ready2Fly]

The poster Slim21 in this thread is exactly right.  It's incredible how every player who doesn't choose UW automatically can't cut it academically.  If qualifying is such an issue, why was Bo still actively recruiting Blue?  Why did Bo still want him so badly?  I thought he doesn't compromise on academics.  What a heaping load of SH*T.  

A player commits to MU over UW, and it's immediately chalked up to grades.  A player commits to UW over MU and it's because his priorities are straight.  I can't believe these a-holes who constanly bringt this up actually believe any of it.  If they do, they lead sad, strange, insecure lives.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Ron Dayne, Brent Moss, John Clay, Perry, Williams,  etc


The list is endless.  Butch's comments are priceless as well.  Because, you know, MU will keep them eligible because that's what we do.     If only we had all those Ag Journalism and P.E. classes to help in that endeavor.

[Nukem2]

Hmmm....I thought Bo only recruited solid students...oh wait, Bo was still actively recruiting Blue......

[pillardean]

Decent article...until the last shot about academics.

Absurd.  Hughes says..."you have to apply yourself." (Ohh but he looked around, perhaps incinuating that it takes more..like...gasp...help from tutors and advisors)
That's all it takes at UW? To apply yourself?
Hmm... sounds to me like UW-Stout standards (If in doubt go to Stout).

I recall a post awhile ago in which there was a video of 'Rel and a day in the life of his shoes or something like that.
If I was not mistaken he spent multiple hours in the gym, weightroom, eating and (don't look now Badger fans) class followed up by hours in the Al's study facility.

[butchbadger]

Vander gave a little TMI to the UW player apparently.  He did that with alot
of people. So what you hear is not made up.

As for Williams and Perry did they last at UW??  UW hoops has a pretty good history of dealing with academic casualties.  If you are not literally making the grade, you don't play.

Maybe the support at MU is infinitely better.  Trend did sit out a couple weeks when he wasn't playing anyway.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Vander gave a little TMI to the UW player apparently.  He did that with alot
of people. So what you hear is not made up.

As for Williams and Perry did they last at UW??  UW hoops has a pretty good history of dealing with academic casualties.  If you are not literally making the grade, you don't play.

Maybe the support at MU is infinitely better.  Trend did sit out a couple weeks when he wasn't playing anyway.

Butch, you have an awful lot of innuendo in your posts on Buckyville and Badgernation and not a shred of evidence to back it up.  Sure looks like sour grapes.  How's John Clay doing....did he make Phi Beta Kappa yet?

[pillardean]

Vander gave a little TMI to the UW player apparently.  He did that with alot
of people. So what you hear is not made up.

As for Williams and Perry did they last at UW??  UW hoops has a pretty good history of dealing with academic casualties.  If you are not literally making the grade, you don't play.

Maybe the support at MU is infinitely better.  Trend did sit out a couple weeks when he wasn't playing anyway.

Making the grade at UW isn't that hard from what I hear from my buddies.
I can do that too.

[MuMark]

The bottom line is Vander knows what he has to do off the court to play next year. Those requirements exist no matter what school he would have chosen.

I wonder if Potrykus would have posted that information if Blue had announced for UW instead of MU?

Then again I really don't have to wonder since we all know the answer.

If Blue would have picked UW he would have been praised for picking a school for the right reasons and any discussion of academics would have been kept off the boards(as it should be).

Since he picked MU......fire away....who cares......he's dead to me.......

It really is pathetic.

[MR.HAYWARD]

the truly sad thing is if you read the Badger boards that have acyaully convinced themselves that Blue chose Mu as purely a last resort.  They make it seem as if UW had closed the page on him because he could not make it academically and were no longer offering and he ad to choose Mu if he wanted to stay in state.  I guess what ever gets you thru the day.

The truly sad thing is supposedly ethical sports reporters are now dragging akid thru the mud to stroke their bruised egos.  drag a  kid thru the mud that is pathetic

[MR.HAYWARD]

atually i think it is a decent article no swipes at anyone.  nankivil and collins both simply state that bo is a good recruiter and simply lost out on this recruit.  jeez oh pete unless you are Roy williams or Bill self the normal head coach probably has a batting average of about .100...and that is just for recruits that they decide to go after really hard!!

- just watched the vido too and this schultz guy was extremely fair and actually very complimntary fo Blue and MU   and did not indict Bo....very level headed and correct.

[Norm]

As someone with degrees from both schools (MU undergrad, UW grad) I can say that in no way is one of the schools vastly superior to the other academically. The type of student at both schools is practically identical. You get out of school what you put in at both MU and UW. Both schools have academic areas they specialize in and are better than the other, and the resources that UW has helps them offer many more grad programs. They also have more research funding. But at the end of the day there is not a whole lot of difference between the two schools when it comes to quality of education a student receives. They are both good schools.

[77ncaachamps]

And we should really be listening to an underutilized, underdeveloped JUNIOR forward (Keaton Nankivil)?

Uh....no thank you.

[MrRivals150]

http://buckyville.yuku.com/topic/23538/t/Nankivil-Memorial-coach-on-Blue.html

Keaton is in my anatomy class at UW, and I talked to him and he really isn't that close to Vander.  He just kept saying he needed to make a decision soon and whatever it is that's fine.

But, I'm sure Wesley and Jeronne were doing as much recruiting as Buzz did.


Portrykus needs to stick to football, he's working for a Milwaukee newspaper.  Stop being bitter.  Vander's grade issue is true though.  I have spoke to some of his friends at UW and have heard some things.

[avid1010]

Vander's grade issue is true though.  I have spoke to some of his friends at UW and have heard some things.

That doesn't make it true.  Very few people have the legal rights to know if it's true or not, and those people are not at liberty to discuss the situation.  Everyone wanted this kid, and his grades will never be an issue.

[mu-rara]

I see Bo Ryan's lapdog/errand boy (aka Rob Schultz) is at it again. It's stunning to see someone with so little professional integrity.

Love the comments from Hughes about how Bo narrows the numbers of players he recruits based on character. Guess they already forgot about Diamond Taylor and Jeremy Glover.

Don't forget about Marcettus McGee (sp?), who by the way, made it onto campus.

[lurch91]

Don't forget about Marcettus McGee (sp?), who by the way, made it onto campus.

Marcetteaus McGee?

[MuMark]

"Everyone wanted this kid, and his grades will never be an issue.""

How do you know grades will never be an issue? I assume you are just as in the dark as everyone else is.

Yeah everyone wanted him but that doesn't mean he doesn't have some work to do.

[mu-rara]

"Everyone wanted this kid, and his grades will never be an issue.""

How do you know grades will never be an issue? I assume you are just as in the dark as everyone else is.

Yeah everyone wanted him but that doesn't mean he doesn't have some work to do.

If he goes to class and listens to his tutors ( if he needs them) grades will nhot be an issue, same as if he went to UW

[connie]

As someone with degrees from both schools (MU undergrad, UW grad) I can say that in no way is one of the schools vastly superior to the other academically. The type of student at both schools is practically identical. You get out of school what you put in at both MU and UW. Both schools have academic areas they specialize in and are better than the other, and the resources that UW has helps them offer many more grad programs. They also have more research funding. But at the end of the day there is not a whole lot of difference between the two schools when it comes to quality of education a student receives. They are both good schools.

+1.  Same stats.  MU under-UW Grad.  Any D1 school complaining about their stringent academic standards is really complaining about an inability to recruit the players they want.  I remember the Bob Dukiet years where I deluded myself  in exactly the same way.  Then we got Mike Flory!