Seemed Like A Lameass Excuse...

[MUfan12]

Can we get a home and home with GT next year? I'd love to see a hard-pick from SC on IS ala Steve Novak against...I forgot who...but he laid someone out.

haha... that pick was against St. John's. If I remember right it sparked MU to a strong second half in what was a pretty physical game.

I've heard the Christopherson rumors as well, but what I had heard was Iman had too much to drink and got in his face, but it didn't come to blows. Kind of a non-story now, we got Taylor, so its all good.

[bananahammock]

i sure hope IS and MU players were not drinking during his visit.  this story seems a bit far-fetched; i've heard he just didn't care for the city of milwaukee and preferred atlanta. 

[Mayor McCheese]

Can we get a home and home with GT next year? I'd love to see a hard-pick from SC on IS ala Steve Novak against...I forgot who...but he laid someone out.

haha... that pick was against St. John's. If I remember right it sparked MU to a strong second half in what was a pretty physical game.

I've heard the Christopherson rumors as well, but what I had heard was Iman had too much to drink and got in his face, but it didn't come to blows. Kind of a non-story now, we got Taylor, so its all good.

Who's Iman?    No seriously, we should stop talking about him, start talking about Tyshawn, he wanted to play at MU, we should give him the MU love.

[tomcrean4pres]

I agree no reason to worry about Iman ne more... he is not ours and thats that it doesnt matter why he didnt come... im sure if SC is the reason that TC has taken care if it already and has talked to SC about it so  im not worried

[4everwarriors]

are true that Iman Chumpert got into it with SC during his official visit and was crap-faced beside, Crean should have had the balls to immediately withdraw his scholarship offer. Disappointing that he apparently didn't.
I don't care if Chumpert is the second coming of Magic Johnson, he's a bad actor and I don't want him in the program if he isn't bright enough to be on his best behavior during a visit. Just who in the hell does he think he is coming in here talking smack to a potential teammate after he's illegally been drinking underage?
Adios, mf'er.

[spiral97]

perhaps the rumors aren't true.

regardless, it's water under the bridge and poor sportsmanship to berate him his choice regardless of the reasons.  I say "thank you for your consideration.  It didn't work out but best of luck to you in the future." and leave it at that.

Next?

[mosarsour]

I wonder if the "fight" involved SC with a needle and Shumpert with an inflated head.

If true...I would believe it.

[Avenue Commons]

at the time, but in light of Mbakwe's injury, maybe Shumpert was truthful when he said he took into account where he would enjoy attending school if he was hurt and couldn't play basketball.

I never played basketball for Marquette and I had an AWESOME time at Marquette.

[wadesworld]

Hey I'm brand new to this site but I just thought I'd put this insight in there...take of it what you will.  I'm a freshman at MU and I'm in Christopherson's English class.  We have 20 kids in the class and are put into groups of 4 for each of the different papers we write so it's hard not to talk to each kid in the class at some point.  At first I didn't really talk to him very much but then we started talking and he is one of the most down to earth people I have met.  He welcomes any conversation and is one of the most polite people I know, to any person.  I now sit next to him in every class and since it's a 75 minute class rather than a 50 minute class it gets long and boring so we often talk about sports and just the college life in general.  We talked about Fifa 08 (the soccer video game) and he said he hadn't gotten it yet so I told him he could come to my dorm and play and it seemed like he kind of just let it go (didn't flat out say no but didn't accept the offer either) so I figured oh he's just too cool to be seen in any other dorms, but later I got an e-mail from him saying he just got the game and invited me to come over sometime and play.  He also has not missed any of the classes this semester and always has his homework done on time and participates more than about 90% of the class (including me).  He is very intelligent and I would be absolutely shocked if he ever started a fight with anyone for any reason, and if somebody attempted to pick a fight with him I would be shocked if he did anything other than turn and walk away, especially a potential recruit.  I highly doubt he had any reason in Shumpert's choosing Georgia Tech over MU.  Christopherson is a sincerely nice, polite kid who I can tell works hard at basketball and school.

[Coobeys Oil Depot]

Hey I'm brand new to this site but I just thought I'd put this insight in there...take of it what you will.  I'm a freshman at MU and I'm in Christopherson's English class.  We have 20 kids in the class and are put into groups of 4 for each of the different papers we write so it's hard not to talk to each kid in the class at some point.  At first I didn't really talk to him very much but then we started talking and he is one of the most down to earth people I have met.  He welcomes any conversation and is one of the most polite people I know, to any person.  I now sit next to him in every class and since it's a 75 minute class rather than a 50 minute class it gets long and boring so we often talk about sports and just the college life in general.  We talked about Fifa 08 (the soccer video game) and he said he hadn't gotten it yet so I told him he could come to my dorm and play and it seemed like he kind of just let it go (didn't flat out say no but didn't accept the offer either) so I figured oh he's just too cool to be seen in any other dorms, but later I got an e-mail from him saying he just got the game and invited me to come over sometime and play.  He also has not missed any of the classes this semester and always has his homework done on time and participates more than about 90% of the class (including me).  He is very intelligent and I would be absolutely shocked if he ever started a fight with anyone for any reason, and if somebody attempted to pick a fight with him I would be shocked if he did anything other than turn and walk away, especially a potential recruit.  I highly doubt he had any reason in Shumpert's choosing Georgia Tech over MU.  Christopherson is a sincerely nice, polite kid who I can tell works hard at basketball and school.

This is a nice contribution and to clarify things a bit the version I heard didn't have Christopherson in the wrong at all. In fact, quite the opposite. Also, things that have been told to me regarding SC's personality and character are right in line with what was mentioned in the quoted passage. He is a genuinely good kid.

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

Hey I'm brand new to this site but I just thought I'd put this insight in there...take of it what you will.  I'm a freshman at MU and I'm in Christopherson's English class.  We have 20 kids in the class and are put into groups of 4 for each of the different papers we write so it's hard not to talk to each kid in the class at some point.  At first I didn't really talk to him very much but then we started talking and he is one of the most down to earth people I have met.  He welcomes any conversation and is one of the most polite people I know, to any person.  I now sit next to him in every class and since it's a 75 minute class rather than a 50 minute class it gets long and boring so we often talk about sports and just the college life in general.  We talked about Fifa 08 (the soccer video game) and he said he hadn't gotten it yet so I told him he could come to my dorm and play and it seemed like he kind of just let it go (didn't flat out say no but didn't accept the offer either) so I figured oh he's just too cool to be seen in any other dorms, but later I got an e-mail from him saying he just got the game and invited me to come over sometime and play.  He also has not missed any of the classes this semester and always has his homework done on time and participates more than about 90% of the class (including me).  He is very intelligent and I would be absolutely shocked if he ever started a fight with anyone for any reason, and if somebody attempted to pick a fight with him I would be shocked if he did anything other than turn and walk away, especially a potential recruit.  I highly doubt he had any reason in Shumpert's choosing Georgia Tech over MU.  Christopherson is a sincerely nice, polite kid who I can tell works hard at basketball and school.

Nice post, well written. Sounds like a nice kid. Glad to hear that.


Too be honest, I've been reading this thread for a while (along with other posts about shumpert).

Does it really matter why Shumpert chose GT?

He seemed like a decent kid throughout the entire process and he made the choice that he thinks is best for him. 

I'm disappointed that he didn't choose MU, but I'm not going to be like a "psycho ex-girlfriend" and wonder why he didn't chose me(MU), and question his character and speculate on rumors, innuendos etc. etc.

I don't know what happened with him and SC... but it's definitely a rumor, and definitely not important.

Best of luck to Iman at GT. Best of luck to all of MU's current and future players.

[spiral97]

Hey I'm brand new to this site but I just thought I'd put this insight in there...take of it what you will.  I'm a freshman at MU and I'm in Christopherson's English class.  We have 20 kids in the class and are put into groups of 4 for each of the different papers we write so it's hard not to talk to each kid in the class at some point.  At first I didn't really talk to him very much but then we started talking and he is one of the most down to earth people I have met.  He welcomes any conversation and is one of the most polite people I know, to any person.  I now sit next to him in every class and since it's a 75 minute class rather than a 50 minute class it gets long and boring so we often talk about sports and just the college life in general.  We talked about Fifa 08 (the soccer video game) and he said he hadn't gotten it yet so I told him he could come to my dorm and play and it seemed like he kind of just let it go (didn't flat out say no but didn't accept the offer either) so I figured oh he's just too cool to be seen in any other dorms, but later I got an e-mail from him saying he just got the game and invited me to come over sometime and play.  He also has not missed any of the classes this semester and always has his homework done on time and participates more than about 90% of the class (including me).  He is very intelligent and I would be absolutely shocked if he ever started a fight with anyone for any reason, and if somebody attempted to pick a fight with him I would be shocked if he did anything other than turn and walk away, especially a potential recruit.  I highly doubt he had any reason in Shumpert's choosing Georgia Tech over MU.  Christopherson is a sincerely nice, polite kid who I can tell works hard at basketball and school.

thanks for the awesome perspective.. great to hear!  Tell him we're all behind him and looking forward to see him kick butt this year.  Oh, and tell him about muscoop