Parrom-XU recruit

[Mr. Neutral]

To be fair, we don't know if Parrom would be a good or bad college student. What we do know is that he punched his coach, and that's the issue that X has to look at, and decide if he's basically a good, coachable kid who made a bad mistake, or is this an indication of future problems.

[muskieman]

everyone makes mistakes in judgement at some time in their life, just ask my wife.

[passthepuck?]

Muskieman: Would that be your mistakes, of which the amount is truly ponderous or her one little mistake of marrying you?

[muskieman]

Muskieman: Would that be your mistakes, of which the amount is truly ponderous or her one little mistake of marrying you?

You know Marjie and you know me so you know the answer to that one. I hold that mistake on her part up to her as my only defense. Just like you beautiful Ann made that mistake with you.

Truly God has bless us by marrying wives that did not bother to read all the instructions about have we were put together.

[Mr. Neutral]

I've said for years that if women were as picky about guys as guys are about women, the world population would about 80% less. And most of us wouldn't be here.

[MillerTime]

I can't speak for keith, but what I was trying to convey is that we cannot simply avoid the AAU circuit. It's the nature of college basketball now whether we like it or not.

From all indications besides this incident, Parrom is a good kid. Supposedly Coach Antigua was trying to force his hand to a particular AAU program, and they got into a clash. Niether Antigua or Parrom are likely to return to St. Ray's. It was ugly and both appear to have acted stupidly, but no charges have been filed to date that I am aware of, and Xavier staff appears to still be recruiting Parrom.

[Mr. Neutral]

I think we'd all agree that the AAU circuit is going to be part of the recruiting picture, whether that's for better or worse. And Parrom may be a good kid overall. I can only hope that X looks into this very thoroughly and then makes the right call.

[wkrq59]

Wasn't it Fr. Hoff who said (and I paraphrase here) that he wouldn't want to see Xavier win a national championship if it meant X had to compromise its mission statement and its principles?
That said, my friends, let's get all the facts, and let's leave the judgments to
Sean and his staff and Sister Rose Ann.
I am already on record as saying something must be done and quickly to clean up the problems with the AAU programs, which will be even more evident when the OJ Mayo Iceberg begins to melt--If Myles Brand doesn't sweep it under the rug.
That said, I think each case has to be dealt with for now on an individual basis, and since we can't know all the facts and the reasons behind them, we reserve our judgment until we do. I remember Will Caudle, the man who wasn't there, and probably should have sued those two guys who claimed he was.
However this turns out, I am certain of one thing. If Xavier has to always take "at risk" kids (see Huggins, Robert the "Coiffed One') and that's the only way to constantly be a top echelon program, it's not worth it.

[CoachNormanDale]

I would have showed this kid who's boss!

[MillerTime]

Well, we are still recruiting him, so you either have to accept that the staff believes he is a good kid, or be upset that we are going after bad kids. That's the choice.