Oy vey! Now Steven Bjornstad isn't coming to Nevada

What's that line from "The Godfather" where Michael (Al Pacino) is lamenting...oh here it is: "Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in."

We're starting to feel the same way about Nevada men's basketball. Any thoughts or forecasts that the tempests have blown over are incorrect.

Pack recruit Bjornstad asks out of letter-of-intent
Chris Murray
Reno Gazette-Journal
5/1/2009

Nevada basketball recruit Steven Bjornstad asked for a release from his national letter-of-intent and Nevada turned down the request, one of his high school coaches said Friday.

Jim Sevall, an assistant coach on Bjornstad’s Columbia River (Wash.) High team, said Bjornstad asked for the release earlier this week. Wolf Pack athletic director Cary Groth has denied the release request, Sevall said, but Bjornstad will appeal the decision to the NCAA, where the National Letter-of-Intent Committee will review the case.

“The athletic director told him she doesn’t issue releases,” Sevall said...

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