CHillDeac
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I found this interesting. Buried in a recent article called 'NCAA should allow players to leave when coaches bolt' were a couple of quotes from Jeff Teague regarding Skip Prosser's death and him wanting to reopen his recruitment.
Jeff Teague got an idea of just how high the cards are stacked against the athletes during his college days at Wake Forest, under much more tragic circumstances.
Before he ever played a game for the Demon Deacons, his coach, Skip Prosser, died of a heart attack in the summer of 2007. Teague headed home to Indiana, a broken-hearted 19-year-old who wasn't sure if he still wanted to play for the Atlantic Coach Conference school.
Prosser, after all, was the primary lure.
We'll let Teague, who now plays for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, take it from there:
"That's the only guy who recruited me, the only guy I knew. So I went through that process of trying to go back home. But they told me they may not grant me a release to play right away. So I stuck it out."
"If a coach leaves, the players should have an opportunity to pick another school," Teague said. "Most of the time, the kids go there to play for that coach."
http://www.newsday.com/sports/column-ncaa-should-allow-players-to-leave-when-coaches-bolt-1.11696793
Jeff Teague got an idea of just how high the cards are stacked against the athletes during his college days at Wake Forest, under much more tragic circumstances.
Before he ever played a game for the Demon Deacons, his coach, Skip Prosser, died of a heart attack in the summer of 2007. Teague headed home to Indiana, a broken-hearted 19-year-old who wasn't sure if he still wanted to play for the Atlantic Coach Conference school.
Prosser, after all, was the primary lure.
We'll let Teague, who now plays for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, take it from there:
"That's the only guy who recruited me, the only guy I knew. So I went through that process of trying to go back home. But they told me they may not grant me a release to play right away. So I stuck it out."
"If a coach leaves, the players should have an opportunity to pick another school," Teague said. "Most of the time, the kids go there to play for that coach."
http://www.newsday.com/sports/column-ncaa-should-allow-players-to-leave-when-coaches-bolt-1.11696793