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Yeboah departs
DIR By: guest369
Date: March 22, 2019, 12:05 pm
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Source: Akwasi Yeboah is transferring from Stony Brook. Averaged
16.7 PPG & 7.7 RPG during his junior season.
HTML https://twitter.com/EvanDaniels/status/1109136362010107904?s=19
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Re: Yeboah departs
DIR By: Chairman of the Board
Date: March 22, 2019, 12:15 pm
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ahhhh f%$#*&@#
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Re: Yeboah departs
DIR By: Moveitfred
Date: March 22, 2019, 12:16 pm
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Assuming that's solid intel and true (and what a lot of us
probably thought anyway), feels like this one change puts SBU
back to mid-pack in the AE next year no matter what.
Sorry we didn't get one more year of Yeboah, he was a
rock-solid, consistent SBU talent (one of the best ever, for
sure), and can't blame him one bit.
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Re: Yeboah departs
DIR By: OldSeawolf
Date: March 22, 2019, 12:18 pm
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Wasted no time with Boals' departure. If what theGreatK said is
true, that he sat with Heilbron and lobbied for Geno Ford, then
Ford is definitely not being asked to be HC.
Akwasi has been a much better player than Cremo (who went to
Nova) and Nicholls (Florida St), so if he is in fact
transferring, I would expect a Top 10 school, nothing less.
Best of luck to Akwasi - great player and a gentleman!
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Re: Yeboah departs
DIR By: Chairman of the Board
Date: March 22, 2019, 12:31 pm
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let's just hope the bleeding stops here.
and get guys like foreman, garcia, and moor into the mix to plug
the gap.
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Re: Yeboah departs
DIR By: OldSeawolf
Date: March 22, 2019, 12:40 pm
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--- Quote from: Chairman of the Board link ---
>
> let's just hope the bleeding stops here.
>
> and get guys like foreman, garcia, and moor into the mix to
plug the gap.
>
--- End Quote ---
If any of the remaining guys transferred, they'd have to sit out
a year, per NCAA transfer rules. Garcia could do the grad
transfer a year from now though, since he will be a redshirt
Junior this upcoming year (like Akwasi was this year).
Good question with Foreman. He just sat out a year. Does that
mean he could go anywhere right now, and renege on SBU, or is he
locked to SBU? Losing Akwasi is a blow, although expected.
Losing Foreman too, with Cornish graduating, would be absolutely
brutal.
Heilbron has to earn his money right now and keep team together
mentally. If Akwasi would have stayed if Ford was hired
(implied rumor from other thread), not sure Heilbron made the
right move then. He could have hired Ford, and always fired him
subsequently, if he didn't perform this upcoming year.
Questions, questions, questions.....
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Re: Yeboah departs
DIR By: guest152
Date: March 22, 2019, 12:41 pm
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I’m skeptical in believing that Akwasi’s decision to transfer
has much at all to do with whether or not Geno Ford becomes the
next coach. It’s more probable that he just wants to take his
game to a better conference with higher exposure.
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Re: Yeboah departs
DIR By: OldSeawolf
Date: March 22, 2019, 12:46 pm
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--- Quote from: Triple Lindy link ---
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> I’m skeptical in believing that Akwasi’s decision to transfer
has much at all to do with whether or not Geno Ford becomes the
next coach. It’s more probable that he just wants to take his
game to a better conference with higher exposure.
>
--- End Quote ---
I'm skeptical too, but if there was that chance to keep him, I
may have made concessions. I would think Akwasi has been
thinking about this for awhile now (and also thinking of turning
pro, since he's 22ish). With Boals leaving, Akwasi has the
perfect get-out-of-jail free card explaining his decision to his
teammates based on the coaching bailout.
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Re: Yeboah departs
DIR By: OldSeawolf
Date: March 22, 2019, 8:29 pm
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Not so fast. Maybe Akwasi will stay:
HTML https://www.newsday.com/amp/sports/college/stony-brook/akwasi-yeboah-transfer-1.28834574?__twitter_impression=true
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Re: Yeboah departs
DIR By: NoVA_Seawolf
Date: March 22, 2019, 9:47 pm
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I figured Yeboah would leave. That was a given in my mind. Even
if Boals didn't go he might bounce, now with Boals going, Yeboah
going was a done deal in my mind. I expected that.
What I expected him to do though was go pro in Europe perhaps
and cash in, I didn't expect him to transfer. If he does
transfer, then Rutgers is an obvious landing spot, though I
wouldn't blame him if he went bigger than that and for the sake
of an possible NBA career, it might be better he go bigger. Go
to a contender. Maybe Michigan State? Izzo has been a master at
developing players. In any case, I wish Akwasi the best and I
wish him well wherever he goes. He's definitely a huge loss no
doubt, but Garcia was 6th man of the year and can step right in
and contribute. Plus, we shouldn't let a departing player
dictate our coaching choice. Ford is NOT the guy. Even if he
would have kept Yeboah around. Wednesday night as awful.
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