Lionel Sullivan talks with Hoopfactor.com

[ZiggyZoomba]

Check it out... scroll down a little ways for the paragraph regarding "Train" and a blurb about the recent departure of Jeremy Holland.

http://hoopfactor.com/index2.html

[orangeandbrown]

Nice find, Grant.

[Flipper]

What a waste...if Holland had access to a car, maybe he could have given Vandermeer's dad a ride to and fro.

I think I'm going to like Lionel Sullivan. It sounds like he isn't afraid to work a little.

[TG1996]

What a waste...if Holland had access to a car, maybe he could have given Vandermeer's dad a ride to and fro.

I wonder if he just drove home and decide he didn't want to make that drive back. If only he would have made that decision while he was in BG.

[orangeandbrown]

Many times these situations are an affair of the heart, if you know what I mean. Does anyone remember our very talented goalie that kept running home?

[Warthog]

That is just plain pathetic. Do these kids realize that going to ANY college entails moving away from home? Was he home-schooled his whole life??? Did he get homesick when he made his official visit to BG? OR does he just have a girlfriend he is missing?

[Flipper]

Home schooled? Was Holland golfer? That would explain why the little pisher suddenly (ok, thankfully) disappeared....

[BGSU33]

Thanks for posting the link to the article.

[Falconboy]

Homesick my butt. Since when do kids get homesick nowadays want run back home? Most kids I know and you'd think the natural thing would be to want to get out of the house as soon as possible and be on your own and do your own thing. So where's this coming from all of a sudden! This is becoming almost hilarious now. :coo-coo: Isn't this guy from Indiana? Oh boy thats so far , its like a galaxy away man poo hoo.

[Flipper]

I'm sorry...are you saying Holland was homesick for your butt? TMI, man TMI...

[Falconboy]

I'm sorry...are you saying Holland was homesick for your butt? TMI, man TMI...

Its called sarcasm Flipper. I think you used it a couple of times on this board.

[Goose]

Homesick my butt. Since when do kids get homesick nowadays want run back home?

Apparently it is a trend with these Indiana guys getting homesick and running home to Mommy and Daddy! Check out this loser who did the same thing! I'm sure this clown is a garbage man in French Lick and the college coach who originally recruited "Mr. Homesick" was surely fired the following season:

Bird earned a scholarship to Indiana University, but the 17-year-old found the adjustment from a town of 2,059 to a campus of 33,000 confusing. After less than a month, before basketball practice even started, Bird unobtrusively returned home.

"People naturally think it was trouble between Knight and me, but it wasn't," Bird said. "The school was just too big. I was a homesick kid who was lost and broke."

He enrolled at a small local junior college but soon dropped out. He took a job with the municipality, cutting grass, painting benches, striping streets and driving a garbage truck. He entered Indiana State in 1975, saying goodbye to the guys on the garbage truck.

[Tricky_Falcon]

Plenty of kids get homesick. Yes a lot of kids can't wait to leave the house but there are still a lot more stuck on mothers teet.

[orangeandbrown]

Or their girlfriend's. I can remember lots of guys leaving when I was a student, and right off the bat, too.

[Jacobs4Heisman]

Pansies -- if a kid isn't mentally strong enough to be independent at home or away from home, there's no way he'd make it on this team. Dakich would have a field day with these kids that left anyways.

The part that troubles me isn't kids leaving as much as it's not seeing that these kids might be too attached to home before we recruit them. Granted, that's probably easier said than done, but I think we could do a better job of evaluating the whole package before we offer kids. Of course I'm not out there coaching or recruiting so that's easy for me to say. Hopefully this is a statistical anomaly and not a growing trend.