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2011 BU commitment- Donivine Stewart

buballer82 said:
I was thinking the same thing. By the time Donivine gets here Sammy, Drew, and Dodie will all be gone (unless unforeseen injury causes redshirt year) and Eddren will be a senior. There should be minutes available for him as there was Dyricus and Jake this year.
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haha i was thinking the same thing.....
 
Da Coach said:
Donivine was at almost every home game this year. He loved the fans who "come out no matter what". :D

So the great Bradley fans can take a little credit for Donivine picking Bradley!
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I was thinking the same thing as I read that....

all those nights I cheered for the Braves...
and now Donivine says flatly that was a major reason he chose Bradley!
So, yes, the good fans that pack the arena can take some credit...
and did anyone notice this one more line....

"..Coach promised me he’d be there for four years and I promised him I’d give 100 percent for four years."

...looks like the Bradley fans have two great pieces of news to celebrate!
 
Welcome to the Hilltop Donivine. :-D Sounds like the kind of recruit BU can be proud of. Good Player/Good Person.
 
tornado said:
I was thinking the same thing as I read that....

all those nights I cheered for the Braves...
and now Donivine says flatly that was a major reason he chose Bradley!
So, yes, the good fans that pack the arena can take some credit...
and did anyone notice this one more line....

"..Coach promised me he??™d be there for four years and I promised him I??™d give 100 percent for four years."

...looks like the Bradley fans have two great pieces of news to celebrate!
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Unfortunately neither Jim Les cannot truly control that situation...unless of course he starts winning some more basketball games.
 
BradleyBrave said:
Unfortunately neither Jim Les cannot truly control that situation...unless of course he starts winning some more basketball games.
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Unless Les was told something by the "higher ups" that he then passed on to Donivan.
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Braves4Life said:
Unless Les was told something by the "higher ups" that he then passed on to Donivan.
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Even if he was, that means little. Heck, we see it every day - Votes of confidence can almost be the death knell for a coach. Jim Molinari was told by Broski that his job was safe, and that he could play all the freshmen all year because it was a young and talented group that needed to develop. Mo was then promptly whacked after going 9-20, just one year after finishing 2nd in the league with a senior-laden bunch.

But, what we do know is this - His contract says he'll be here, and he's still the head guy, so there's no reason to say anything else to a recruit. Donivine is coming to BU, and that's a good thing.
 
I doubt anyone KNOWS what's going to happen in 4 years...but at least it solidifies the argument that Coach Les' job is NOT in jeopardy
which will cause anguish to some I am sure...;)
 
buballer82 said:
I was thinking the same thing. By the time Donivine gets here Sammy, Drew, and Dodie will all be gone (unless unforeseen injury causes redshirt year) and Eddren will be a senior. There should be minutes available for him as there was Dyricus and Jake this year.
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My personal reason for bringing up EM was to show we have plenty of players to cover next year. We don't need another guard. After that we still would have DSE and DS. Could maybe use one more, but not in this years class. If Tyler ended up walking on we may not need another even the next year. I just think our biggest need is inside.
 
tornado said:
I doubt anyone KNOWS what's going to happen in 4 years...but at least it solidifies the argument that Coach Les' job is NOT in jeopardy
which will cause anguish to some I am sure...;)
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Coaches promise kids anything these days.

If you ever spot anguish. . .be sure to point that out.
 
lake Camelot said:
If Tyler ended up walking on we may not need another even the next year. I just think our biggest need is inside.
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Stevie Wonder knows we need help inside....



Also to the other discussion, a Coach can and will tell a recruit anything and everything to get him to commit to a school...


You think if Les told Milos he was going to ride the pine all year he'd even be here?


Whether Les is here in 4 years or not is really beside the point, it matters MUCH more than Donivine is still here in 4 years!
 
Wouldn't it be awesome to finally have the talent live up to their expectations? I have really like Les's recruits (skill-wise and personality-wise) so I'd like him to stay on the hilltop provided he gets more out of his talent.
I think he got the most from his players in '06-'07 (NIT) and '08-'09 (though the '05-'06 team came on strong and had much talent). Expect the same in '10-'11!
No excuses this coming season of not finishing in the Top 3 (no matter who is being recruited for next season). A quality big man would alleviate that pressure a little though!
 
not so sure now

not so sure now

Not sure of NCAA rules but I was at dinner last night with a Limestone basketball coach and he informed me that a West Virginia assistant coach was at Donovans signing.The Limestone AD asked him why he was there and he stated he was invited? No Bradley coaches were there evidently and i called a Limestone admin today to verify this and he stated the coach stayed in the back and never came foward til the end of the signing. This has to be a NCAA violation I am thinking. This has me very concerned as a Bradley fan.
 
It is unheard of, and I believe it would be a violation for any college coach to be present at a kid's signing, especially if it is listed as a "dead period" by the NCAA.
November 8-11 was an NCAA mandated "dead period"-
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect...ivision+I+mens+Basketball+Recruiting+Calendar

Donivine signed on the first day of the signing period- Nov 10., according to this Bradley release-
http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=205028489
so that would have been during the dead period when any "in person" contact was a violation.
Definition of "dead period"- http://basketball.about.com/od/collegebasketballglossary/g/deadperiod.htm

So I do not know how it could have happened, but I wouldn't put it past some coaches who really want a kid (ala Jerry Wainwright visiting Manual Cass during a similar "dead period" to deliver the LOI).

However, I am not worried about Donivine. He is solidly committed to Bradley. And he is now signed.
 
If a WV Asst BB Coach was at DS' LOI Signing ceremony, would hope the PJS BB writers would call this out in print, verify a possible infraction, and then try to get a comment from WV and NCAA officials...:!::!:

That is, if they have time in between writing negative articles about JL and BU Men's BB.... :rolleyes:
 
Donovan

Donovan

Ds west Virginia?????
Anyone wonder why "stewy", didn't follow up on the west Virginia asst coach at ds signing? Reason 1, due to the fact that it was not an assistant coach from WV. It was a older friend of donovans who was invited wearing a WV coaches shirt I was told. This is the guy who is good friends with huggybear and also tried to get DSE to kansas state after his junior year. Why would a guy turn down a big east scholarship offer to play in the valley?? I smell something fishy here.. glad stewy called Donovan and asked before we had egg on our face here...great job STewy
 
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