5 basketball players at Duquesne shot last night

[Moderator1]

I covered a game at Duquesne once. The losing coach goes outside and his bus isn't waiting. So he talks off walking for his hotel saying, "If I get mugged, it will be the best thing that happened to me all night."

 

[dreunc1542]

Here is a more in-depth look at what happened.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06260/722679-53.stm

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I covered a game at Duquesne once. The losing coach goes outside and his bus isn't waiting. So he talks off walking for his hotel saying, "If I get mugged, it will be the best thing that happened to me all night."

That just SOUNDS like something Scott Edgar would say.

 

[BYH]

The MSN story missed one big aspect of the story. Kojo Mensah, one of the victims, was the guy who hired a lawyer to get out of his scholarship with Siena, which jerked him around for a year. As an aside, I wonder if any reporters in Pittsburgh have done any digging about how the new coach got Mensah or how he all of a sudden got 10 recruits. I know with the shootings, that's on the back burner. But that just leaps out as a head-scratcher.

I think he brought a bunch of current players and recruits with him from Northeastern.

 

[steveu]

Right about now you have to wonder how the 19-year old girl arrested in all of this feels. Jesus. That's a story in itself.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

She's a dumbass. Duquesne has announced today that they suspended her. They should have announced that they expelled her ass. "Gee, here are a bunch of my boyz and they all have guns. I don't see anything that could possibly go wrong here."

 

[jason_whitlock]

you should've read her myspace page before she made it private..... not exactly the kind of girl you want your boy to bring home from college.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I saw her picture. The tattoo gave much away. and how long til we get the article that little or no background check was done on this girl because she was a Hurricane Katrina refugee from Xavier in 2005?

 

[Johnny Rockets]

The MSN story missed one big aspect of the story. Kojo Mensah, one of the victims, was the guy who hired a lawyer to get out of his scholarship with Siena, which jerked him around for a year. As an aside, I wonder if any reporters in Pittsburgh have done any digging about how the new coach got Mensah or how he all of a sudden got 10 recruits. I know with the shootings, that's on the back burner. But that just leaps out as a head-scratcher.

It certainly is worth examining further when a coach brings in 10 recruits, including a boatload of JUCOs, after landing a job in the spring. Everhart does not have a good reputation among college coaches, and when Duquesne is competing against power conferences for players, as they were this spring for some players, it really makes you wonder what is happening behind the scenes.

Kojo Mensah is a walk-on at Duquesne. A walk-on who averaged 16 points at Siena last year. Clearly he's not paying his own tuition. After all of the publicity Mensah's departure from Siena received, you figure that Everhart would be a little more discreet about bringing this kid to his program, and would give him a scholarship. Apparently he doesn't care what the perception (or the reality) is.

There is much to look into for the Duquesne beat writers regarding this program and its new coach. The rumors and innuendo suggest that it is not the cleanest operation out there.

 

[Armchair_QB]

The MSN story missed one big aspect of the story. Kojo Mensah, one of the victims, was the guy who hired a lawyer to get out of his scholarship with Siena, which jerked him around for a year. As an aside, I wonder if any reporters in Pittsburgh have done any digging about how the new coach got Mensah or how he all of a sudden got 10 recruits. I know with the shootings, that's on the back burner. But that just leaps out as a head-scratcher.

It certainly is worth examining further when a coach brings in 10 recruits, including a boatload of JUCOs, after landing a job in the spring. Everhart does not have a good reputation among college coaches, and when Duquesne is competing against power conferences for players, as they were this spring for some players, it really makes you wonder what is happening behind the scenes.

Kojo Mensah is a walk-on at Duquesne. A walk-on who averaged 16 points at Siena last year. Clearly he's not paying his own tuition. After all of the publicity Mensah's departure from Siena received, you figure that Everhart would be a little more discreet about bringing this kid to his program, and would give him a scholarship. Apparently he doesn't care what the perception (or the reality) is.

There is much to look into for the Duquesne beat writers regarding this program and its new coach. The rumors and innuendo suggest that it is not the cleanest operation out there.

Dave Bliss brought in a shirtload of transfers his first year at Baylor.

 

[outofplace]

Does Mark Madden have an alibi?

Does it count that he lacks the intestinal fortitude to actually confront an athlete, even if he did have a gun?

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

The MSN story missed one big aspect of the story. Kojo Mensah, one of the victims, was the guy who hired a lawyer to get out of his scholarship with Siena, which jerked him around for a year. As an aside, I wonder if any reporters in Pittsburgh have done any digging about how the new coach got Mensah or how he all of a sudden got 10 recruits. I know with the shootings, that's on the back burner. But that just leaps out as a head-scratcher.

It certainly is worth examining further when a coach brings in 10 recruits, including a boatload of JUCOs, after landing a job in the spring. Everhart does not have a good reputation among college coaches, and when Duquesne is competing against power conferences for players, as they were this spring for some players, it really makes you wonder what is happening behind the scenes.

Kojo Mensah is a walk-on at Duquesne. A walk-on who averaged 16 points at Siena last year. Clearly he's not paying his own tuition. After all of the publicity Mensah's departure from Siena received, you figure that Everhart would be a little more discreet about bringing this kid to his program, and would give him a scholarship. Apparently he doesn't care what the perception (or the reality) is.

There is much to look into for the Duquesne beat writers regarding this program and its new coach. The rumors and innuendo suggest that it is not the cleanest operation out there.

Duquesne does not have the booster support or financial resources to pull this crap off. They've been trying to win on the cheap for the past 20 years and it hasn't worked. The biggest complaint has been the administration gives little support to this team. The A.J. Palumbo Center seats about 5,000 and they draw 1,800 for any home game not involving Pitt. So now they've turned into a Jim Harrick coached school overnight? I don't buy it.

I'm also not buying that this shooting was over a girl hugging another guy. Even the biggest of thugs administers a beatdown in this situation. He knows damn well it's not worth firearms charges. The guns are reserved for more pressing issues where money is involved.