Believe that Dunlap stating he is most to be blamed for Nuri or words to that effect is Dunlap and St J's taking the hit and the high road and not completely buring Nuri's career. It does not do a program any good or any team college or pro to bad mouth their players or former players. I don't know from an insiders postion but from the outside looking in it seems like Nuri had his own agenda to show case his skills to make money at the next level and did not have the team's interest as his top priority sort of like Santonio Holmes of the Jets. I could be wrong but that is just how I see the whole situation. Best thing was both parties moving on seperately IMHO.
90% of all players, in every league of every pro or high revenue amatuer sport have their own agenda, the teams best interest is never top priority .. its never about the team its all about the paycheck. The smart ones realized that a greater paycheck will if the team is successful, and that is motivation to buy into the whole "team concept."
Can't find the post from you but you alluded to players not being happy and possibly wanting to leave. Or that Nuri isn't the only one. Well since it seems you know the players I hope you tell them or they know that they wasted a chance to leave after first semester. Now if they chose to, they would miss all of next season which would be a pretty significant blow. Its smarter to leave 1st semester as many kids did. At this point it would make no sense too.
I think the post Moose is referring to is in the Thread that was deleted/moved/archived.
I'm actually not surprised by what Bball was inferring (that other players were thinking of transferring). Right after the Detroit game things looked pretty bleak; inconsistent rumors were coming out about coach etc etc. I think the coming out party for D'angelo and Moe against PC, and the win against Cinn, coupled with the Branch transferring in, really helped settle a lot of nerves around the program.
But would it shock me if some of the players had
thought about transferring? No, it absolutely wouldn't. But as it stands now...
1) There's no way Moe is transferring and putting his pro career on hold for an extra year.
2) Amir had every opportunity to wait and enroll next fall if he had questions. He didn't. He came on board when things were at their worst and did so with enthusiasm. So he's not going anywhere.
3) Phil Greene won't get this kind of PT at any other Big conference program. Could he transfer "down"? I guess it's possible. But usually you do that to get the aforementioned PT. Not to mention we have very few guard recruits on the radar for next season, so even with Branch, Phil isn't being recruited-over by the staff.
4) Gift? I can't see him thinking it's worth it to sit out a full year only to have one year of eligibility left some where else.
That leaves Dom and D'angelo as guys who might have been looking to transfer. Like I said, I don't doubt they may have thought it over, but now I can't see them going anywhere. D'angelo is getting all the PT and shots he could want, he's not being recruited over, and he'll get to move off the ball next year. The staff has basically given him the keys to the program for the next 2-3 seasons. I truly believe, as D'angelo goes... so will our program.
Dom was a very highly ranked recruit, the highest in our class by some services, so he could be having second thoughts. That's not ridiculous. But he seems to know that his best way to impress scouts is to play within a system and do the little things right that he's learning. He gets playing time, and he hasn't shown that he wants to dominate the ball or need to "get his shots" that you see when a player is trying to showcase themselves.
I think we're fine on the transfer front now. Correct me if I'm wrong bball... but you said players were considering transferring. That seems to be in the past, no?