On Stanback

Westbrook? They wish they could get Westbrook =P

I'm telling you, San Diego State would be a great spot for him.

Sorry, I meant Stanback. It is now fixed.

This may be an old question but do you think Stanback left on his own or did Howland and his staff hint to him that he wasn't fitting in and that he should look elsewhere?

Proving once again how intelligent these kids can be. Maybe they should think things through before making haste decisions, because things may not be going their way. First he leaves the Mecca of College BB, then he forgets to check if the schools he's interested in have a scholie available. HAHAHAHA. Too funny. I wonder if he and his parents considered this when they "felt leaving at this point was in our best interests." Maybe word has gotten around that he has a bad attitude and isn't a TEAM player. I just think if a school wants you bad enough, they will find a scholie for you. Maybe they can get him some work study hours, like I had to do, to help pay for school. I wonder if the no work rules apply to athletes who are not on scholarship. Maybe he will decide it wasn't so bad at UCLA after all.

bad trade chace

I just figured it out. I bet these schools have scholies available or can find one for him. They just don't want to waste one on him while he sits on the bench for a year. HAHAHAHA. They're probably figuring he doesn't have much of a choice now that he's left. They figure they'll get a free year out of him. HAHAHAHA. Man does life suck.

Wow, BruinFaithful, you're an embarrassment. How classless. So the kid didn't want to stay at UCLA. Big deal, get over it.

Most real bruins with this kid well.

oops, "wish"

Sure "Anonymous"

I don't have a problem with the kid. I hope the best for him. I'm just a true believer in living with your decisions. Relax pal. I'm just talking some trash. It's a blog, that's what we're suppose to do. It's a diversionary activity. I don't really care if he stayed or left. He wasn't doing much anyway. It's not serious. It's not like somebody losing their home or their savings at an insolvent bank. I would have liked to have seen him stay at UCLA and do well and improve. I think he would have been better off at UCLA, learning from Howland. However, like I said, I'm a true believer in living with your choices and learning from your mistakes. I think he's going to get an early lesson in that philosophy is all. He'll learn a valuable lesson in making sure you have another job lined up before you quit your current job. I'm just saying, it's peculiar that Washington and UNLV don't have a scholie for him, but they have one for Derrick Jasper and/ or Alex Stephenson. Think about it. Don't kill the messenger.

BTW "Anonymous"

I thought this was suppose to be an open forum where we could voice our opinions without being attacked personally. I was only trying to provoke thought by speculating, since The Dohner never gives us all the juicy details. Guys like you just don't get it. This is like a Soap Opera for men. Tell me it's not. Guys like you take this WAY too seriously. It's a fun distraction, something I do when I'm not thinking about business. And, I trade stocks, so I LOVE to speculate. Exactly who am I an embarrassment to? Some guy who is "Anonymous"? HAHAHAHA. I think I can live with that.

On another board, someone reported that Sarah Francis Quick (Chase's mother) won $25,000 from an online game.

Click on the previous winner link on

https://www.livethefasttrack.com/play/index.php

She detailed the money is toward paying the tuition to sit out for Chase...

Brian,
Has Stanback officially left UCLA?

bruinfaithful, grow up. all i see are HAHAHAHA out of your posts. first off, these are only two of the schools he is considering.

second, i wonder why he would want to pay his way at UW (for one year) and have to give up a year of eligibility for transferring intra-conference although I do think UW would be a good fit for him style-wise.

Brian, am i wrong about the intra-conference transfer rule?

i agree that bruinfaithful needs to tone it down. just because its an open forum and just because its a blog doesn't mean one needs to go about trying to instigate conflict. i also don't know about stanback's supposed bad attitude and not being a team player. sure every once in a while you would hear that he thought he would be getting more playing time, but its not like he ever went crying and screaming to the media.

i remember watching a game of stanback back when he was in highschool on LA 36 of all stations. he had one play where he took off from the free throw line and almost posterized a kid (ball bounced out) but got called for a charge. nonetheless, it was one of the most athletic and exciting plays i have ever seen. though i've spent the last year or so in anticipation of seeing him doing that in a bruin uniform, i don't have a problem with his transfer. it isn't like the program cant take it.

How about LACC? Develop a year while looking like a superstar as a big fish and re-open recruiting.

jdoggbruin- I believe their is no rule specifically for intra-conference transfers. However many coaches will only release a player if they go out of conference because they do not want to have to compete against them. If the player is not released, he has to sit out a year before he plays. Its kind of a defacto rule, however I beleive Howland will release Stanbeck, so he can go wherever he choses.

Goodluck to Chace... There are very few programs where he will not be able to become a stand-out player.

I agree that "BruinFaithful" is an embarrassment and the fact that he just can't understand that make him more like a trojie than a Bruin.

I don't know if the above comments characterize "typical" ucla ideas, but if I were an athelete thinking about ucla, I would have second thoughts solely based on these borderline-obscene comments.

Then it is a shame you are not an athlete thinking about UCLA.