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PG Braxton Beverly (transfer to NC State, transfer to Eastern Kentucky)

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nomatta said:
I definitely think Beverly, Cohill, and Francis all could coexist...
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they could... but say goodbye to penn in '20, who i think will be the best point guard of them all.

francis and penn are unique players. they're legacy recruits in the immediate columbus area, they're very good, and they would almost certainly be buckeyes if given the right opportunity.
 
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His coach at Hargrave Military is now on the NC State staff, so this is probably something he's more comfortable with, and he gets to play in the ACC. A.W. Hamilton took the assistant job in Raleigh not even a month ago. I'd be curious as to whether Holtmann chased him off or if this was Beverly's thinking after the Matta firing, but it doesn't really matter at this point.

https://www.backingthepack.com/nc-s...ate-basketball-recruiting-ohio-state-buckeyes
 
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HabaneroBuck said:
His coach at Hargrave Military is now on the NC State staff, so this is probably something he's more comfortable with, and he gets to play in the ACC. A.W. Hamilton took the assistant job in Raleigh not even a month ago. I'd be curious as to whether Holtmann chased him off or if this was Beverly's thinking after the Matta firing, but it doesn't really matter at this point.

https://www.backingthepack.com/nc-s...ate-basketball-recruiting-ohio-state-buckeyes
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No mention of the current staff in his statement leads me to believe he wasn't as welcomed as he was originally.

Hardly knew him so I honestly don't care how he does, but good luck. *shrug*
 
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At least we are making news here for having an athlete attending classes! What a mess.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/luke-decock/article164698767.html

This time, it’s incoming freshman Braxton Beverly, who had the equal temerity to think it was safe to attend summer school at Ohio State without his coach getting fired, only for Ohio State to fire Thad Matta in June.

Ohio State, humanely, released Beverly from his letter of intent, and he landed at N.C. State, where the NCAA now could potentially make him sit out a year before playing because he committed the cardinal sin of going to class.

It’s fine for the NCAA to do its due diligence here. A player who enrolls shouldn’t have the freedom to transfer at will. There’s a dividing line that needs to be established, and an academic year should count as an academic year. But when there’s good reason for it – like a coach getting fired before the player even puts the uniform on, and the school being willing to let the player go, as it should – the NCAA shouldn’t stand in his way.
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N.C. State Freshman Braxton Beverly Ruled Ineligible For Going To School

After Thad Matta abruptly left Ohio State this summer, incoming freshman Braxton Beverly was granted his release by the Buckeyes and he transferred to N.C. State. The four-star point guard recruit (who once scored 70 points in a single high school game) hadn’t played for the Buckeyes or anything, and he’d only been at the school for a few weeks before Matta left. However, he had started attending summer classes at OSU, and thanks to the NCAA’s byzantine transfer regulations, that was enough to get him ruled ineligible for the entire 2017-18 season.

Entire article: https://deadspin.com/n-c-state-freshman-braxton-beverly-ruled-ineligible-fo-1819445249
 
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Why did it take them three months to rule him ineligible over rules that are so cut-and-dried? The obvious answer must be that they were weighing in on the case based on an overview of the situation. Seeing as Matta was fired late in the process, seems fair enough to let the kid get on with his life somewhere else, especially considering he had never practiced with the team! Nope, let's punish this nobody kid who got caught up in a storm not of his making in the same week we give the Tar Heels a total pass for mocking the term "student-athlete." 99 out of 100 people would say, cut the kid some slack....
 
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I don't have a problem with him having to sit a year. You want to transfer, fine, but there is no exception to be automatically eligible because your coach gets fired. It would be crazy in the NCAA tourney if players who were on bad teams whose coaches were fired were suddenly free agents who could play elsewhere in the postseason immediately. Transferring and playing in the same season of your transfer just doesn't happen because of a coaching change - I don't think he has a good argument based on past precedent.
 
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DZ83CK said:
I don't have a problem with him having to sit a year. You want to transfer, fine, but there is no exception to be automatically eligible because your coach gets fired. It would be crazy in the NCAA tourney if players who were on bad teams whose coaches were fired were suddenly free agents who could play elsewhere in the postseason immediately.
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do you really not see the massive difference here? beverly never played in a game for ohio state. braxton never even practiced with his teammates. at most, he had a few hours of training under the staff. that's it. how in the world is that anything at all like deciding to transfer after playing a whole season? it's not even remotely similar.

coaches can change jobs on a whim. the only possible penalty is purely monetary. they're not held out of competing. their destinations for employment aren't restricted. they have free rein. but the players? noooooooooo. not only are they held out for a whole year, but they can -- and usually do -- have their target destinations limited, often out of pure spite.

in my opinion, if transfers are held out of competition for a year, then so should coaches if they change jobs. if transfers are denied a scholarship for one season if they attend a program that the coach blacklists, then the coaches should be denied pay for one year if they go to a school the players blacklist.

but anyway, all beverly did was attend summer school for a few weeks. that's it. he didn't play and he didn't have formal practice. the coach he committed to was fired. that was beyond beverly's control. arguing for the letter of the law while completely denying the spirit of the law is myopic.

what i'd like to see keatts do is play beverly anyway. play him in game one. make a spectacle of the ncaa's absurdity.
 
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