Jojo McGlaston dismissed from Bradley basketball team

[Canton BU fan]

Is this common for players who are dismissed from a team but still keep their scholarship?

 

[Da Coach]

Is this common for players who are dismissed from a team but still keep their scholarship?

Jojo is even being allowed to use some of the athletic department facilities for training and academic support for the remainder of the academic year. That is very uncommon. It does happen, but I can not recall or name another case.
I think it shows how much the coaches and AD are trying to be fair and help Jojo, though they are not under any obligation to do so.

 

[tornado]

A player we discussed here, Johnnie Vassar - a highly rated recruit that went to Northwestern... - was dismissed from the basketball team but stayed at Northwestern for more than two more years.
https://www.insidenu.com/2015/11/2/...rthwestern-transfer-scholarship-chris-collins

He even sued Northwestern when two years later, they tried to take his scholarship away
https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...-ncaa-after-long-battle-over-his-scholarship/

but as of last spring, he was still there - more than 3 years after he left the team...and his lawsuit is still working it's way thru the courts
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...-vassar-lawsuit-spt-0330-20170329-column.html
https://sports.vice.com/en_ca/artic...ncaa-from-forcing-transfers-to-sit-out-a-year


NOTE- all DI schools have the athlete and his family signs an athletic/scholarship agreement.
The wording of the agreements differ - most scholarships are for ONE YEAR at a time, but now some
schools (like Northwestern) are making their agreements for FOUR YEARS - obviously giving them better
recruiting advantages.
For the most part, the schools cannot yank the scholarship without reason and those reasons are laid out in
the agreement - such as skipping class, flunking out, and objectionable/illegal behavior... So we can each
decide what to believe, but we will never know all the facts as I doubt anyone but the McGlastons and a few
people at Bradley actually know what the terms of his scholarship agreement say and what they decided.

 

[tornado]

There have been some wild and irresponsible allegations made on twitter...

Also - after Dave Reynolds direct-tweeted to Jojo's mother and asked her to email him...and she said she would.........

Re: closure to an issue that had gone on for almost a year and a half....
as many of you recall - right after Jojo McGlaston was dismissed from the team, his mother Tweeted out
multiple vicious, inflammatory, attacking and condemning comments....aimed broadly at just about everyone
connected to Bradley - the team and staff - specifically the head coach by name and Dr. Chris Reynolds...
and her tirade continued on for months - calling them all liars and throwing out gobs of hateful attacks such
as labeling them abusive, hateful, racist, homophobic, etc...

well - finally, because of the diligent action of a couple Bradley Fans who persistently reported her and her offensive and unfounded
Tweets to the management of Twitter, she has been required to remove her attack Tweets from December 2017 thru now
(which had actually accounted for about 60-70% of all her tweets in that interval) so ....

..now you see almost nothing on her Twitter feed from December 2017 thru March 2019 - except a few about
her daughter and running track........everything else is gone.....
Clearly she knows the truth and why she was forced to delete it all -- but explains away the sudden disappearance
of her Tweets in a strange way. But in the end - at least all those vile, unfair things about Bradley, Coach Wardle
and Dr. Chris Reynolds are all gone now.

 

[ihatetea]

Wow. What a sad thing to brag about.

 

[tornado]

? sad that someone who posted multiple false vile attacks was found to have violated the standards and required to remove them?

I was happy when I heard this - I have personally seen the response Twitter sent to the person who reported the offensive Tweets.
Those comments should have never been made and thankfully now they are removed so they can't be used as fodder for other people to attack our coaches & staff. This is a win-win and the person who posted those attacks is still free to post whatever she wants but obviously has learned a lesson.

Personally, I found it odd that Dave Reynolds Tweeted directly to the Twitter feed of that person asking her to contact
him so he could give her a bigger platform.... :roll:

 

[ihatetea]

Because so much had developed from those tweets. People just couldn’t stop talking about them. Come on man, you’re really want to go around policing Twitter? Are you gonna find every negative thing about Bradley posted on the internet and demand it get taken down? I guess if you have nothing going on in your life that’s your perogitive. Just a sad waste of time and thing to hang your hat on.

 

[tornado]

Twitter encourages readers to report such posts - it was their decision to remove them
They are gone now, and I view that as good -
I view Bradley basketball like my own family - and if someone said those things about my family, I'd want them removed.
..but I am not taking credit - altho I complained about those Tweets a year ago - but someone else who took action more
recently got the job done.

 

[bradleyfan124]

Because so much had developed from those tweets. People just couldn’t stop talking about them. Come on man, you’re really want to go around policing Twitter? Are you gonna find every negative thing about Bradley posted on the internet and demand it get taken down? I guess if you have nothing going on in your life that’s your perogitive. Just a sad waste of time and thing to hang your hat on.

I do not think people who make irresponsible comments should be able to walk away scott free. If they are lying they had better own up to it. It is called taking responsibility for your actions. If they are lying they should be called out instead of letting them continue to spout lies ruining peoples reputations and character

 

[tornado]

not a single person who has ever met or known Dr. Chris Reynolds or who even knows about him would ever make such claims
about his character & Coach Wardle's as this person did on Twitter -
I have no problem with anyone who wants to think that way or believe those things - that is their right - BUT
if you say them and post them publicly then it is my right and my responsibility to respond, to oppose those statements & call that person out.

 

[Tommy]

Because so much had developed from those tweets. People just couldn’t stop talking about them. Come on man, you’re really want to go around policing Twitter?

I agree with ihatetea (I mean, I love tea, not that). Best thing to do with these type of things is to ignore them and not give them more attention than deserved.

 

[Da Coach]

Also - after Dave Reynolds direct-tweeted to Jojo's mother and asked her to email him...and she said she would....
Dave writes his column and talks about going forward without Jojo but mentions no further info or details or if he got anything from talking with Jojo's mother.

For anyone not familiar with this issue, I encourage you to go back and read this thread from the beginning.
After Jojo McGlaston was dismissed for the team in mid-season last year, his mother made a number of serious charges publicly via her twitter account. She implied Coach Wardle was abusive and unfair and discriminated against Jojo. She also forwarded her complaints to the Bradley AD and even to higher administration officials and to the Missouri Valley and NCAA offices. She also dragged out the old issues related to claims of player abuse against Coach Wardle from UW-Green Bay, but never acknowledged that those issues were investigated thoroughly by independent investigators, and none of the claims were found to have happened. Coach Wardle was completely exonerated. And as noted in this thread, she made many of the same complaints directed at the Utah State coaches when Jojo was dismissed from that school (prior to ending up at Bradley). In all of this fiasco, it is quite notable that Jojo himself stayed silent and never joined in the attacks.

And also note that she communicated her complaints directly to Dave Reynolds via emails and Direct Messages on Twitter. But I congratulate Dave and the PJ Star for realizing she was a little unstable and off-base and nothing about her claims or accusations were ever taken seriously or printed by the PJ Star.

She also hired a nationally known and successful lawyer who specialized in lawsuits against universities in cases involving college sports and scholarship issues. But nothing ever happened, which strongly suggests the lawyer either refused to take her case or advised her not to proceed.

 

[Jim]

Does anyone know what Jojo did after leaving Bradley?

 

[Da Coach]

There has been no word. He is not playing professionally anywhere.