Posted by bambi2godzilla on 4/6/2008, 9:27 am, in reply to "Re: SJSU's next basketball transfer recruit"
63.249.102.18
Good point Phil. Now this may be accurate but a google of Holman and Indiana and Tom Cream and SJSU turn up nothing in print about Holman connected to SJSU. A google of blogs turns up the same. Those introductory paragraphs sure were carefully constructed so as to have no attribution. I guess we will know soon.
--Previous Message--
: Where does it say that he is considering SJS?
:
:
:
: --Previous Message--
:
: A 4 star and the fifteenth rated center in
: the country in the 2007 recruiting year was
: Eli Holman from Richmond, CA. Holman signed
: with Indiana University last year after
: being recruited nationally. The new coach of
: Indiana, Creen, recruited Eli for Marquette.
: Holman would be the starting Indiana center
: this fall a newspaper blog detailed.
:
: According to the newspaper blog Holman has
: narrowed his choices to SJSU and going back
: to Indiana. At SJSU he could play close to
: home so his parents could see his games.
:
: BLOOMINGTON – Frustrated by the loss of his
: coach and another wasted season, Eli Holman
: said he’s headed home this weekend to ponder
: his future.
:
: The Hoosiers’ 6’9” freshman said Wednesday
: he’ll return to his Richmond, Cal., home
: this weekend to sit down with family and
: friends to decide if he wants to come back
: for a second go-around with IU next fall.
:
: “When I come back next week, hopefully I’ll
: have my decision by then,” Holman said.
:
: What makes this an even more troubling
: situation for Holman is the consequences of
: transferring. If he decides to continue his
: collegiate career at another Division I
: school he’d be forced to sit out the entire
: 2008-09 season. While that’s something many
: freshmen can tolerate, it would be a tough
: pill for Holman to swallow.
:
: That’s because Holman has already missed the
: majority of his last three seasons as
: basketball.
:
: Holman was suspended for 18 months by the
: California Interscholastic Federation for
: pushing a game official on Dec. 3, 2005. He
: missed the remainder of the ’05-’06 season
: and had hopes of being reinstated for his
: senior season, but those hopes were dashed
: when his appeal was denied.
:
: After arriving at IU, he played in six of
: the Hoosiers’ first nine games before Coach
: Kelvin Sampson said he injured his left
: wrist in the week leading up to the Western
: Carolina game.
:
: Soon afterwards, Sampson said IU would
: likely pursue a medical redshirt for Holman
: since he didn’t expect him to be cleared to
: play until “three or four games into Big Ten
: season.” The problem with that, though, is
: the only way to be granted a medical
: redshirt is if a player suffers a
: season-ending injury and the player has
: played in less than 20 percent of the team’s
: games.
:
: That obstacle was cleared later when Sampson
: said the ligament damage to Holman’s wrist
: was worse than originally anticipated and
: that it would in fact be a season-ender.
: With that, Holman spent remainder of his
: debut season on the sidelines as the most
: colorfully-dressed man on IU’s bench.
:
: “It was hard,” Holman said of the season.
: “My two or three years sitting out, I
: expected to come in and help contribute. I
: think it would have been nice to have
: another body in there against Arkansas, but
: it happens for a reason.”
:
: One way or another, Holman’s time on IU’s
: bench are all but over. If he decides to
: transfer he’ll be headed somewhere else when
: the semester comes to a close. If he decides
: to stay he figures to be one of the
: Hoosiers’ primary low-post players.
:
: But right now, that’s little consolation for
: a player who’s been waiting, and waiting,
: and waiting…
:
: “It’s been a long year for me,” Holman said.
: “I’m kind of happy it’s over.”
:
: By next week, we’ll likely find out of his
: IU career is over as well.
:
:
:
:
:
Message Thread:
« Back to thread