The Big Ball Theory

Have mostly dealt with the Central Section in recent years. Their rule is similar. One case, softball player transfers to a school coached by her club team, supposedly to take a sign language class that would fulfill the foreign language requirement for her scholarship at an SEC school. She moved in with a club team coach (no Poin involved as far as we knew). Section did some digging and ruled it athletically motivated. Parents got an injunction, but courts eventually agreed with the Section. School forfeited all games she played, she was ruled ineligible the rest of the season, but school was allowed to go to the playoffs. The player eventually did get a scholarship (despite my best efforts by reporting all this), but at a Mountain West school.

Another one, from what we heard: Football team's kicker gets mad at coach and leaves. But since his family's farm bordered on an adjacent school's territory, he transfers and, six weeks later, is kicking for the other school in the same league.

 

I actually can't wait to see how Jello's game "translates" into college ball. It could be a disaster.

 

What the hell are you talking about?

 

Are you aware UCLA has five other recruits in next year's incoming class that are all higher rated than LiAngelo? Or that LiAngelo didn't even make his class' Top 150 lists?

If so, could you explain why you think Alford will be fired if he plays others ahead of such a marginally-rated recruit? I'm curious to hear your reasoning.

 

The father is going to try to make life miserable if the middle kid barely plays as a freshman.

 

Two thoughts about this: 1) Daddy Ball probably isn't going to be satisfied by anything or 2) he might be so busy micromanaging (and gobbling up the cash) from his NBA son that the other two might have some semblance of normal careers.

 

Gotta believe Alford knows where the industrial-sized cans of STFU are stored on-campus. Like he's never dealt with an overbearing parent?

 

Not now or next year. But thereafter.

 

Except that this one has a very large megaphone. And it will be larger one year from now.

 

Alford's only concern has to be whether Daddy has anything on Alford that can be used for blackmail; other than that, then STFU and you can take your other boys elsewhere (unless of course they are as calm, cool, and collected as Lonzo, because Lonzo is one of the coolest customers on the court I've seen in NCAA ball in 40 years).

 

1. Why would the megaphone be larger next year than this year?

2 So you're suggesting UCLA would fire Alford because of LaVar Ball's opinion?

I'm still not getting the reasoning behind your comments. LaVar Ball is just a loudmouthed clown that no smart person takes seriously, he doesn't have the clout to get Alford or any other any UCLA coach fired--and especially so next year after the best of his sons is long gone.

 

1) His oldest son is gonna be an NBA star one year from now. Hence bigger megaphone.
2) If the elder Ball doesn't like the way Alford is doing things in 2018, he'll simply tell the rest of the best players in SoCal to boycott the Bruins.