I may be able to catch a game when I'm back in California later this year. I lived 3 hours from Bakersfield but perhaps they'll play a game closer to my hometown while I'm there.
Buckingham dismissed from UR Basketball
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I may be able to catch a game when I'm back in California later this year. I lived 3 hours from Bakersfield but perhaps they'll play a game closer to my hometown while I'm there.
Stupid random question. If he sits out the upcoming season at Bakersfield and then UCLA wants him to play the next season, could he do it or have to sit again?
Good luck Buck. I would have liked to have seen him take a redshirt year away from the team, and then be brought back into the fold after working out whatever problems he had with the AD.
Yes, he'll sit one, play 2.
I believe he could. Michael Gilmore left VCU after 2015-16, had a RS year at Miami during which he was dismissed, and then he played 2017-18 for FGCU.
Yes, he'll sit one, play 2.
I believe he could. Michael Gilmore left VCU after 2015-16, had a RS year at Miami during which he was dismissed, and then he played 2017-18 for FGCU.
All the best to Buck and his family. Rowdy the Road Runner is the mascot and was ranked as the number 1 mascot of the teams in the 2016 NCAA Tournament.
The whole situation sucks, no matter who’s fault it is. I do think the fact that he is going to Cal-Bakersfield answers many questions as to what happened and the options he had.
I will be rooting for his success as a player and young man.
I will be rooting for his success as a player and young man.
no matter who’s fault it is---Cmon, put your anti thoughts aside and look at this rationally. There is only one person who got suspended in the middle of a 5 game winning streak and allegedly repeated the same (or similar) mistake 2 months later.
BTW, Buck was my favorite player and never gave less than 100% effort. We will miss that.
I feel sorry that he is going to be so far from home and won't be easy for his family to see him play. Kwan on other hand is 3-4 hours from home now, so I am sure his family is excited.
I still feel that we gave him the death penalty for what another player, who wasn't considering leaving might have gotten, a longer term suspension for. That said, Buck made the mistakes to put himself in this position, so that is where the fault ultimately lies.
It is a sad situation for Spider fans, who universally loved Buck. He was my favorite player, hands down on this team, and I will be rooting for him a CSU-Bakersfield as well. Go Roadrunners.
CSU Bakersfield is moving to the Big West conference in 2020-2021 (http://www.bakersfield.com/sports/c...cle_de328a94-d3ae-11e7-bc20-e72b6d0593d6.html,), so he'll be WAC for one year and Big West for the 2nd. The WAC is a conference that stretches from Seattle to Bakersfield to Chicago to the mouth of the Rio Grande. It's the Island of Misfit D1 Schools.
Davidson and vcu say
The A10 champion (Davidson) and vcu "say hello" twice each. (Both lost twice to UR.)
Yes, even I must say those 2 wins were impressive and the 2nd half of the season showed a very good team. Buck being gone is a hit though.
Last year CSBU lost to Georgia Southern, Central Michigan, Northern Arizona, and like us also Delaware. So they say hello too....hard for you to use Delaware in your example when CSBU lost to them as well.
Also they went 12-18 last year which is pretty similar to us. Except we didn't get 5 free wins against Chicago State (2x), Whittier, Alaska Anchorage, and Life Pacific. Those last 3 aren't D1 schools and were just there to pad their end of season standings. If we played them any of the upcoming years it would be an easy victory.
So we don't want to schedule a H&H with them because that might hurt our chances of another KenPom banner?
One of the great things about kenpom rankings is that they should be independant of schedule. Give the same team 10 different schedules and they should have theoretically the same kenpom rating, with some noise of course. RPI is very different. It is 75% schedule, and so playing cupcakes can destroy your RPI. Give the same team 10 different schedules and they can have wildly different RPIs.
Lots of detailed analysis but my basic point was that we aren't in any position to be saying we would beat anyone by 15 points these days. The wins over Vcu are great...I'll take them every year... but that wasn't a good Vcu team...sorry it wasn't.
Detailed analysis as expected. My general thought is that we aren't in a place as a program to be thumping our chest as 15 points better than anyone. Yes we beat an average VCU team with a first year coach twice last year...I will never get tired of beating them...but they were average last year. We match up well with Davidson and beat them. I also remember the game we dedicated the court to Coach Tarrant a few years ago...and lost to perennial basketball power JMU. Too many moral victories and excuses for not reaching our potential as a program.
Am surprised that Buck did not land on a far more prestigious team and a lot closer to home.
This suggests to me that a LOT of programs saw him as a very "risky" recruit, and that risk was clearly not related to his ability to play ball. He must have seriously let down a lot of people, including his UR teammates, his UR coaches, himself, and his family. Very sad. I hope he finds a way to get back on a positive path soon.
This suggests to me that a LOT of programs saw him as a very "risky" recruit, and that risk was clearly not related to his ability to play ball. He must have seriously let down a lot of people, including his UR teammates, his UR coaches, himself, and his family. Very sad. I hope he finds a way to get back on a positive path soon.
Agreed. Buck has BCS talent and the fact that none of them were interested is telling.
It is sad, I don't think anyone would say Buck is bad kid in any way shape or form.
No reason to even consider this. If playing in the RC meant so much to Buck he would have made better decisions. Wish him well and move on with the players that are committed to Richmond.
It says to me that Power 5 schools don't need a 6'4" streaky shooter who can rebound well for his size. Love Buck, but he stood the best chance to excel on the basketball court here...
He already did excel...
Who would say he's not a "bad kid"?
Sometimes this sanctimonious crap makes me sick. He didn't get kicked "off and out" because
he was somehow misunderstood. He flat out screwed up.
I hope he straightens out and becomes a better person. But to post some of the namby namby
stuff some of you put on here is absurd.
Could it be possible he may have wanted out? Let's explore all the possibilities. No way to avoid sitting a year anyways...
Pardon The Interruption, but this thread should have died or been deleted long ago; rehashing the same things over and over. Conclusion: most liked Buck, most liked his game, but Buck screwed up and is gone. RIP.
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I could accept this with a much greater level of tranquility if Buck had just transferred. Or he got kicked off during the season after his first suspension. Or got kicked off immediately following the season. Or we hadn't posted his highlight video - which no way in hell Mooney allows if he knew he was under the possibility of being dismissed, and by god he better know this - then was common knowledge he was looking for release, AND THEN gets dismissed.
And then Jim Miller's hit job.
ETC, ETC.
Thanks for posting this Ulla and keeping it at the top, nice job fella.
And then Jim Miller's hit job.
ETC, ETC.
Thanks for posting this Ulla and keeping it at the top, nice job fella.
Hey you don't know me but you don't like me
You say you care less how I feel
But how many of you that sit and judge me
Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?
You say you care less how I feel
But how many of you that sit and judge me
Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?
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