No, this says it all......
[video=youtube;-Vx506DgoUg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vx506DgoUg[/video]
Good luck to you Ski! It was fun watching you play!! :thumbsup:
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Ski's brutal decision
- Thread starter jcatcher
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No, this says it all......
[video=youtube;-Vx506DgoUg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vx506DgoUg[/video]
Good luck to you Ski! It was fun watching you play!! :thumbsup:
blynch32
Member
If this was any other player on the roster, everyone would be on a witch hunt. Josh Scott included. But for some reason this guy has earned immunity. Can't have a "team" with players doing this ****, let alone seniors. God bless Tad Boyle for dealing with this madness all year, can't help but be excited for the improved team we will have next season.
uhh, no.
Best damn post so far.
SECOBuffsFan
Active Member
Ski has been the most criticized player I have ever seen play for the Buffaloes so I don't quite agree with you
:lol: Being one of the most criticized CU players in memory escapes some people I guess.
Any senior on the team would be given the pass on the CBI. Seniors have nothing to prove. Nothing to play for. It actually helps the team in the long run for him to move on, by allowing team building with the kids who will be there next year. Gardner Webb's best player is also skipping the CBI, but not a peep about that.
Can't decide if I like Ski.4.Three or the Miracle in Michigan more. Probably a tie in my book.
blynch32
Member
If I'm a scholarship basketball player, and the coach tells me that we are going into the Boulder community to build houses for homeless hippies around Boulder, I jump up and offer to drive..... whether it's September or May. It's the idea that this is a team function, and somebody on the team is declining to take part. Team breakfasts, team practices, team building exercises all set the tone for **** like this not to happen, the player should've welcomed the chance to play with his team for one more game, and given some of you who think he's an all time great in Boulder another chance to watch him and the team play.
This post in no way supports the opinion I disagreed with. Do you get high and decide to hate on ski?
It's ok to say I'm right.
blynch32
Member
No, unfortunately I'm sober.
you try and give a guy an out...
I'm going to apply that out to most of my posts :smile2:
Doesn't work if it's your normal state.
It's not the fact that he's skipping the CBI that was newsworthy, it was how he went about it... Certainly you see the difference?
Seems to be a difference in your position
What if my normal state was a inebriated state?
Ski tried to put this team on his back with all the injuries this year. We don't fully know the extent of his injuries or if he's just mentally drained. I respect his decision, and hope that he gets healthy to pursue whatever dreams he has. I just wish he would address all of us fans (good ones or bad ones of his) on his decision, so we can have proper closure for a lack of better of words. I know I appreciated everything he accomplished during his tenure. Good luck Ski!!!
He clarified his reasoning today. His reasoning is perfectly sound.
BuffG
Well-Known Member
True story. You can choose to disagree with holic but it says a lot of your kool-aid intake.
wyobuff
Well-Known Member
Had the team not totally hit the skids this year, he'd be the winningest player to ever put on a CU uniform. His teams have been to 3 NCAA tourneys in a row, with a conference tourney title. He played with a special group of people, all of which are gone now. He's also hurt, according to howell:
He earned this, and anyone who thinks he has not has a very, very short memory. This season was a disaster, but still better than most seasons before tad got here.
He earned this, and anyone who thinks he has not has a very, very short memory. This season was a disaster, but still better than most seasons before tad got here.
Strange conclusion, cause it means you are calling Ski a liar.
http://www.buffzone.com/ci_27729308/cu-mens-basketball-askia-booker-believes-him-skipping
I don't really like how this went down either, but holic is going over the edge into hyperbole here, which isn't surprising given his continued strange beliefs about ski.
I suggest you read the rest of it. If you would rather believe Holic's conjecture instead of ski's stated reasoning, that's certainly a position one can have.
It doesn't mean that at all. Has absolutely nothing to do with "kool-aid intake" (which is getting extremely overused), it has everything to do about the situation, what we know about Ski, and why we accepted the invite to teh CBI. Is it possible that Tad accepted it so Ski could get another game or two at home? I suppose, but it seems unlikely.
Read what Tad said yesterday and what Askia has said today after it became a national media blowup.
National Media blow up? K.
There was a bit. Goodman went full blowhard on the topic on ESPN.com. It's fair to say ti was a national media blow up.
the media was looking for the angle that players were turning down the CBI. Booker was the first to give it to them.
J-R-K
Well-Known Member
This is total BS. Since when are players under scholarship allowed to chose when they do or don't want to play? He's quitting plain and simple, there's no way to sugar-cote or justify this. It's a free country, but if this is how he feel then perhaps he should also be paying his tuition for the remainder of the semester.
I find this strange all around. Regardless of the fact that he has an obligation, why wouldn't he want to play? Everyone is alittle banged up this time of years, there are far worse things in life then playing a *****ng game of basketball. This decision also likely does away with the already very faint chance he had of sneaking into the 2nd rd of the draft, no one wants a quitter. While Tad doesn't seem happy about this, he seems to have given Ski his blessing which I also don't understand. This has turned into one of the bigger sports stories of the day and has generated a lot of negative publicity.
The idea that this is somehow beneficial to the program is also BS. No one is happy we're in the tournament, but we should still want to win the damn thing especially since we're losing money by playing in it. Not having Ski doesn't help that cause. Plus as far as next year playing a few games (maybe just one) eight months before next season even begins hardly improves the outlook for next season as some have suggested; especially since four players (at least) who will be on next years team won't be playing.
Ski, thanks for Albuquerque, for Charleston, and for Kansas. Now good riddance. Enjoy whatever it is you're doing tomorrow night that's more important then the game and enjoy your future as a volume shooter in Bosnia. That is of course until you decide to turn your back on that team as well.
I find this strange all around. Regardless of the fact that he has an obligation, why wouldn't he want to play? Everyone is alittle banged up this time of years, there are far worse things in life then playing a *****ng game of basketball. This decision also likely does away with the already very faint chance he had of sneaking into the 2nd rd of the draft, no one wants a quitter. While Tad doesn't seem happy about this, he seems to have given Ski his blessing which I also don't understand. This has turned into one of the bigger sports stories of the day and has generated a lot of negative publicity.
The idea that this is somehow beneficial to the program is also BS. No one is happy we're in the tournament, but we should still want to win the damn thing especially since we're losing money by playing in it. Not having Ski doesn't help that cause. Plus as far as next year playing a few games (maybe just one) eight months before next season even begins hardly improves the outlook for next season as some have suggested; especially since four players (at least) who will be on next years team won't be playing.
Ski, thanks for Albuquerque, for Charleston, and for Kansas. Now good riddance. Enjoy whatever it is you're doing tomorrow night that's more important then the game and enjoy your future as a volume shooter in Bosnia. That is of course until you decide to turn your back on that team as well.