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[QUOTE="Capt. Tuttle, post: 153325, member: 191"]
Regardless of which Scoop camp you are in, please realize that Scoop is the model that JB and SU can sell to prospective players and thier parents.  Send your son to me.  If he makes mistakes, we will stick by him.  If he works hard in the class room and stays in school, he will get a degree.  He will learn to speak in front of the media. If he is a good player and good person, he will get the opportunity to earn the right to travel the world playing basketball.  We can't promise you the NBA, or even overseas basketball, but if your son does his part, he will leave a better, more rounded, well traveled young man who is ready for success in whatever he chooses to do. 
        That is what SU basketball is about.  We are not about being a sham college for NBA in waiting kids.  We are not about manipulating scholarships to get players.  We are not about skirting the rules because the NCAA wouldn't dare touch us.  We are really a throw back to what college sports is supposed to be about, for better or worse (I think for better, and so does the ACC).
        We have two fine young men getting ready to leave us this year.  No school has better "faces of the program" this year than SU has with Scoop and Kris.  I want the Final Four this year as much as the next guy, and I really want it for these two, but regardless of that, they have already been very, very successful college basketball players and as an SU alum, I am proud that they will be joining my ranks.
         Joyce, as an overseer of the University and friend of JB, I think you should be especially proud.
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