KidA23
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From the Chicago Tribune (dated 4/1):
When Jamie Skeen left Wake Forest, four other basketball programs offered him lifelines: Marquette, Seton Hall and South Florida of the Big East, and VCU.
"I thought all those other schools were better than VCU," Skeen said. "But I saw VCU as having a better future."
. . .
Skeen took the long road to VCU. North Carolina's Mr. Basketball as a junior, he signed with Wake Forest over Florida, Clemson and North Carolina State, and started 24 games as a freshman.
But a knee injury curtailed Skeen's sophomore season, after which Wake Forest placed him on academic suspension. Rather than reapply to Wake, which the school said he was welcome to do, Skeen transferred.
"Wake Forest wasn't a bad place to play basketball," he said. "(But) the campus life here at VCU is much better than Wake Forest. Wake Forest only has like 5,000 students. My high school had almost 5,000 students. …
"VCU has two campuses and 33,000 students. I don't see the same people every day walking to class. (At Wake) it was like that movie, 'Groundhog Day,' and you just see the same people every day. It just got a little old."
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...er-vcu-ncaa-tournamen20110401,0,7835522.story
When Jamie Skeen left Wake Forest, four other basketball programs offered him lifelines: Marquette, Seton Hall and South Florida of the Big East, and VCU.
"I thought all those other schools were better than VCU," Skeen said. "But I saw VCU as having a better future."
. . .
Skeen took the long road to VCU. North Carolina's Mr. Basketball as a junior, he signed with Wake Forest over Florida, Clemson and North Carolina State, and started 24 games as a freshman.
But a knee injury curtailed Skeen's sophomore season, after which Wake Forest placed him on academic suspension. Rather than reapply to Wake, which the school said he was welcome to do, Skeen transferred.
"Wake Forest wasn't a bad place to play basketball," he said. "(But) the campus life here at VCU is much better than Wake Forest. Wake Forest only has like 5,000 students. My high school had almost 5,000 students. …
"VCU has two campuses and 33,000 students. I don't see the same people every day walking to class. (At Wake) it was like that movie, 'Groundhog Day,' and you just see the same people every day. It just got a little old."
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...er-vcu-ncaa-tournamen20110401,0,7835522.story