Some of you guys sound like Nuri is your ex-girlfriend. When she is with you she is the most beautiful girl around and then when she breaks up with you she is a nasty bitch. Let's be real Nuri is a talented ball player and also has some glaring deficiencies. He didn't fit here and we replaced him. I think it worked out for everyone involved
+1 except for part about SJU being better off. That depends on what Nuri does with himself and how Branch turns out.
It's a lot easier to believe in someone who is trying. Someone who doesn't give up. I don't think that's such a crazy idea.
Hold on, Branch gave up on his team exactly like Nuri did on ours.
Stop! How can you not see the difference?
Branch committed to A&M when they had a different staff in place. The new staff not only recruited over him by signing Reese...they hired Reese's dad as a coach--not a D.O.B.O, but a coach! How awkward must that be in practice...getting coached up by the father of the kid brought in to (at best) split YOUR minutes. The writing was on the wall...and Reese is a HELLUVA good looking prospect (with the Texas push-shot that WASJU loves so much). If I'm Branch, no way in hell I stay with a coach that didn't recruit me when my competition's dad is on the staff.
Branch leaves a team where he was only getting 18.6 mpg that has a more polished stud PG coming in 2012, for a team with an incredible core that sorely needs a PG...a school that doesn't even have a freaking PG on the radar for 2012.
Nuri quit on his team...didn't even stay around two more games to bridge the gap until Garrett came. He left us with six freaking scholarship players and not even enough healthy bodies to run a 5 on 5 scrimmage in practice. Nuri really screwed himself over and I feel bad because he'll have nowhere to run after Arkansas. Maybe that's exactly what he needs, but something tells me he'll be finishing up at the N.A.I.A level or more likely just disappearing like Lenny Cooke. I hope I'm wrong.