ManOfVision said:
pdxfan said:
How did they screw him? Just curious -
Me too. Somebody explain the background here.
We talked about it a bit awhile back. I talked to one of his coaches in January. Here are the main points:
"Portland St, specifically Coach Bone and Coach Geving, have acted unscrupulously in this recruitment. They haven't done anything illegal, but what they have done is morally wrong.
Glen signed his NLI in November last year and was qualified at that time. The day he signed, they threw in the caveat that Glen was going to come to PSU in 2009. They also stated that they would find him a prep school as part of the deal.
Tyler Geving called four prep schools and admitted he was out of his league with the prep school situation. He specifically asked me to not call any prep schools... stating that he was on top of it. This was in March. He then waited until July to even try... when the scholarships are all given out. So, come August, Glen is twisting in the wind. He tried to make it happen to walk on and redshirt this year, but could not get the loan needed to pay for everything for this year.
He spent September-December searching for a prep school and practicing as a greyshirt with Shoreline CC. He left on Thursday, with Mark McLaughlin, to go to Laurinburg Prep School in North Carolina. PSU has granted his release, as long as it isn't to a Big Sky school.
PSU strung him out, stole his options to be recruited last year and tricked him into signing an NLI for 2008-09, which they never had an intention of honoring. To be sure, I have copies of his NLI. I also personally signed him up for his SAT.
While Glen has to take responsibility for agreeing to the bullshit deal that Bone signed him to, the coaches are the adults here and should not be toying with kids' academic and athletic futures as PSU did here. Glen had other offers and could have gone other places."
