Let's go at it once more and then we're done: so Brady Heslip can't be on immediate scholarship with another ACC school because the new Boston College coach ran the freshman off the team and league rules state he cannot go intraconference unless he pays for his first year at the new school.
That's classy, times two.
Where's the NCAA -- you know, the folks always looking out for the interest of the student-athletes -- on this one? Better yet,
We actually wish Heslip would sign with either Utah State or Boise State because that will help the WAC but he should have the option of looking into Miami AND have a the option of accepting an immediate scholarship if one is offered.
By the way, this is from a front page essay written by Boston College President William Leahy at the school site:
"...Today, the call emanates from a world that has experienced an explosion of knowledge, but not a corresponding growth in understanding; a world that lacks trust in its leaders and faith in its institutions. It is a world that has developed wondrous technologies that link continents, but isolate humans, leaving many men and women weary and dispirited, feeling distant from moral purpose, uncertain about knowledge or the very worth of human endeavor.Repeat after PTW (and this is not particular to Boston College ), "those who have the gold, rule."
Boston College is uniquely capable of answering this call, of speaking to this world, to our time. As an institution of higher education, Boston College is committed to the discovery and transmission of knowledge. But reflecting its Jesuit and Catholic heritage, it also seeks to integrate excellence and religious commitment, to both inform and form its students..."
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This rule is common in most conferences to prevent intra-conference recruiting (poaching). Just look at the Ben Brust case in the Big 10. He's been released from his letter of intent to Iowa and he wants to go to Wisconsin. He never set foot on Iowa's campus as a student; Heaslip actually enrolled and attended classes at BC!
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In the Heslip case, he was 'run off' by the new Boston College coach, who deemed Heslip wasn't talented enough to be an asset in Chestnut Hill.
If the young man has been determined ACC talent deficient by the BC coach then why not allow him to go to a conference competitor? Wouldn't that be beneficial for Boston College.
Heslip didn't wish top leave BC -- he was 'encouraged' to do so.
To then also invoke a rule that limits his options is heavy-handed at the very least and unscrupulous at best, or should we say being further unscrupulous?
A "we don't want you but we will still dictate where you can't go" proviso is not in morally incongruent.
The stink is front and center on Boston College basketball here.
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