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PG Anthony Crater (transfer to South Florida & Georgetown College)

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Just looking over the list of the possible schools:

Arkansas, Florida, Notre Dame, South Florida and Tennessee

I hope the coaches at those respective programs do not hand anything to kids and make kids earn their positions. I hope coach Matta does this or continues to do this as well.
 
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Crater is a great player but i guees he thought he wasn't getting enough time or something. But once a Buckeye always a Buckeye (Unless he ends up attending another Big Ten school) I will root for him as an individual.
 
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starBUCKS;1364891; said:
PJ plays erratic. I am not a fan of his play at all.

Hey TP, want to run the point? :biggrin:
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hell yeah!

twoodbuck97;1365013; said:
This is ridiculous. What does this kid expect? It's been 10 games and one loss. These kids nowadays and there feeling of entitlement is crazy. Nobody wants to work hard anymore, earn there spot. Conley left and Matta had to have another point guard. All he had to do was work hard and the spot was his. Simmons beat him out it seems for his offensive skills being more advanced than Crater's. It might be something else to this but hopefully this kid will look in the mirror and wake up. Best of luck to him though.
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good point. at first blush this looks like sour grapes. there may be more to it though.
 
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Who transfers after 10 games just because of playing time? Dallas Lauderdale should've talked some sense into him. Hell, Crater was getting more than twice as many minutes as a frosh than Dallas did last year and look at Dallas now. Very disappointing. Crater was my favorite recruit.
 
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Well I hope he can find a school were he doesn't have to work for PT and everything is given to him. Definately not cut out to be a Buckeye. Way to leave your "team-mates" high and dry for the remainder of the season. Hopefully we can use his scholarship to get someone with some class, work ethic and integrity!
 
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Wow. This has lose-lose situation written all over it. For whatever reason, I don't think this has anything to do with PT, because he was getting PT. Must be something a bit bigger than that. Fundamental disagreement with Coach Matta? I guess who knows until we get some quotes from Crater

I surely hope he reconsiders, but I wish Noopy luck with his decision.
 
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BuckTwenty;1365144; said:
I guess who knows until we get some quotes from Crater
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You don't need anything from Anthony...his "mentor" said plenty in the BN$ interview.

College basketball is slowly dying because of NBA money and AAU street agents.

In the BN$ interview, his mentor Carlos Fordham says the transfer to Brewster academy was not something Anthony nor Fordham wanted but they did it for tOSU and Thad...

Really?

Dispatch 8/16/07
Crater averaged 16.2 points and 8.4 assists and was Michigan?s Class B player of the year as a junior. But some lackadaisical play this summer, and concerns about his high-school curriculum, prompted OSU coach Thad Matta to encourage Crater to consider a more demanding prep-school regimen so he would be ready to possibly start at point guard as a freshman in 2008-09.
"I need a new challenge. I need this push . . . playing against great players night in and night out," Crater said. "I know I have to be ready. I have to get my body and mind right."


At Brewster, Crater will play on a team with -- and play against -- postgraduates as well as high-school-age players. Five members of last season?s team signed with NCAA Division I schools and a sixth will in November.

"In (Southwestern's) league, we've got only one other Division I player and he doesn't play the same position. He wasn?t really being challenged," said Carlos Fordham, Crater's AAU coach and confidant.
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Note the admittance that he was not being pushed at Brewster...who was on staff at Brewster? Note the mention of "lackadaisical" summer play...who was the AAU coach during the summer? Well, its the same guy making excuses and spreading blame right now. Likely, it is the same guy who engineered this transfer by whispering poison in this kid's ear.

Good luck Noopy.
 
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Fordham said Crater?s mother called Ohio State head coach Thad Matta on his cell phone soon after the loss to WVU and told him that her son was leaving the program.
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I feel bad for Anthony by the "sounds" of the article... but I'm not sure how good he is expressing himself if his Mom and AAU coach are handling his issues. Best to Anthony, I realy hope he gets what he wants. I'm not sure that I know of too many coaches that "guarantee" a starting spot. Maybe Thad was turned off by all of the outside interference
 
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