Yes Jay Harris has a fail on his part maybe it teaches him a lesson but you cannot compare him to Brunis athletically. Brunis is less of a risk we assume because he hasn't released a video but you never know what you're getting with young men. From what I've seen they're both from good middle class homes and the video is in bad taste but I wouldn't ax a kid solely off that.

It hurts the program from an image standpoint, and from an APR standpoint, when they use a scholarship on a player who ends up being removed from the program for off the field issues.  You can never identify with certainty those players that are going to have those kind of issues, but you do need to try to assess character as well as athletic and academic ability. I wouldn't automatically axe someone for making a rap video like the one in question, but it would cause me to ask some questions.

I guess that's kind of like saying "everybody's doing it."

"Don't get caught" ???

Seriously though, probably half the Bobcats smoke on the reg.

If I believed that any expectation of hard work and discipline from the team would disappear.

Really folks, it is likely Mr. Brunis and his family check his namesake thread regularly. I shall attempt to regain some focus. Anyone with me?

They should get used to reading this site then! They have four to five more years of reading digressions like this!

Not for basketball, but Scott Mayle starred in two sports.  

I think OCF is recalling Thomas Stevens, a DB and PG if I remember right.  I also seem to remember him contributing more on the basketball court even though he was officially recruited for only football.  He was brought in to basketball after losing Fears, no?

All right except for your timeline a bit.  Fears was after Thomas Stephens.  I think the PG jockeyed back and forth with him and Zach Kiekow, who had an on again-off again relationship with being on the team.  (The Fears replacements were Antonio Chatman, Mike Allen, BWIV).

I believe TS had a pick six against BG, but he had much more success on the basketball court when he wasn't cramping up.

Also, around the same time we had 2 football guys asked to practice with the team when we had a short roster.  Not sure if they ever got in, but Keyon Ingram and Hugh Grant were part of the team.

All this is a long way of saying, "Welcome to Ohio, Herman".  One week to go!

That is a great article, and has a lot in it that gets me excited, and should get Monroe excited, too. First:

This is excellent to hear. This, in my opinion, was the defining characteristic of the 2005-2006 teams that turned the program around. As the program became more successful, I felt like they kind of drifted away from this a little, and became less-"Solich-like". Based solely on this statement, I now have more confidence that next year's team will be different than the end of last year.


Indeed, this is what I really liked about Brunis, and it is something several of us commented on. No, he's not "really tall", like Monroe wanted, but he goes up after the ball, and catches it at the high point, meaning he takes it away from the DBs even when he is well covered, and traffic doesn't bother him at all. That will make him very, very tough to defend.

Finally, there is this:
[quote=Brunis]A lot of people from Fairfield go to OU, and I see them playing on TV every other weekend. Their fan base is nice, too. They’ve got the best fans in the MAC.[/OUTER_QUOTE]
It's nice to know he overlooked what happened to his thread, hehe, and still considers Ohio fans to be the best in the MAC, because really, they are the best.