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Post by lonewolf on Sept 29, 2009 10:11:00 GMT -5
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Post by leftyvballer23 on Sept 29, 2009 16:44:33 GMT -5
maybe vulgar but not offensive. and considering all that ammerman has been through in his career, i dont blame him for using the word "!!!!###$$$!!!ing" as an adjective.
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setme
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Post by setme on Sept 29, 2009 17:25:44 GMT -5
He wrote a letter of apology almost immediately after the incident. Too bad the NCAA has to dredge this back up again with a memo...
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Post by 30killspergame on Sept 29, 2009 18:15:48 GMT -5
There was no need to do this but oh well..
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Post by ucsdfan on Sept 29, 2009 21:48:15 GMT -5
After reading that great little NCAA release, their actions inspires me to share an Ammerman quote: "f^*#ing awesome!" Great job NCAA for being all over that. Forget that you have steroid-laden football players raping fellow students, breaking and entering, engaging in armed robbery, and staying eligible depsite these actions. Who cares about the criminal actions of basketball coaches like Jim Harrick, etc...? Let's go after a kid who in the heat of the moment following four years of chasing a dream drops an f-bomb and then apologizes immediately after it.
I guess they had to invoke some penalty to maintain a facade of legitimacy, but the NCAA is a friggen hipoctritical monopoly that rivals only the academy of motions pictures for being so completely full of %*$# and impressed with themselves that they've lost complete touch with reality. God I hate the NCAA... I sincerely hope that in my lifetime a second college sports governing body starts to compete with them and their multi-billion dollar industry.
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Post by cyberVBmidwest on Sept 30, 2009 8:28:36 GMT -5
I am guessing they issued the fine and released the press release for legal reasons, not necessarily that they wanted to set any example. They have issues such as legal precedence and even possible pressure from the FCC to show some type of action. It's a very small fine and a very short press release...
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Post by shankapotamus on Sept 30, 2009 12:31:44 GMT -5
This ticks me off. Ammerman was uncontrollably excited at his moment of being an NCAA Champion AND the Most Outstanding Player of the Championship. I had the opportunity to sit and talk with he and the family in Provo and all of them are incredibly humble and thankful people who were gratefully enjoying this moment in their family's life. I'm pretty certain that Ammerman made the apology on his own accord because he knew he goofed (just watch the video). NCAA-- you need to regulate where it matters most-- not on some kid who accidently let one slip. sheesh.
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Post by notsocal2 on Oct 1, 2009 23:24:12 GMT -5
Completely agree to this overreaction by the NCAA.
Also, glad to hear we have a few folks on the forum who have actually competed in their sports life, and understand that in the heat of action, win or lose, folks sometimes make mistakes - without malice. And I believe there is a difference of significant "repeat offenders" and then someone like ammerman.
One would think our authorities would place this energy in cleaning up some of the other sports in terms of drugs/steroids or academics
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Post by youdoh on Oct 2, 2009 4:25:28 GMT -5
Ok....A lot of people I have been talking to lately want to know why Ammerman is not in the gym with the USA team. The reason he is not is straight up, he is not good enough. I watched todays practice and Matt Werle a setter from Juniata (a D3 school) came in late in practice and ran the offense like he has been playing with these guys for years. Ammerman had one good match and yeah he's athletic but he let winning the national championship go to his head and he is needs to and will find out that to play at a level of the olympic athletes takes more than one good match to get named to the training team roster. At this point in time I would take Luke Murray over any setter that came out of the NCAA in the past few years.
Luke is way more advanced than Ammerman and John Winder and possibly even Brian Thornton. Even though I am a PSU fan, I still think that Luke can run an offense similar to the Brasil's better than a lot of guys out there. He is small but blocks better than Winder and he put up the numbers to prove that. I hope he gets the chance to be in the gym next summer after playing overseas this year.
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Post by youdoh on Oct 2, 2009 4:26:50 GMT -5
Oh yeah and as for Ammerman's comments after the NCAA's, its cool man you had a lot of emotion going on but you should have restrained a tad from cursing but I still think you played out of your mind and deserved to win.
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Post by hangandbang on Oct 2, 2009 11:36:13 GMT -5
how do you know ammerman let it go to his head? he had to have had at least more than one good match, he was named to the all american team. Luke more advanced than winder and thornton? why has winder and thornton been travelling on usa teams this summer and luke has not?
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Post by setme on Oct 4, 2009 13:51:15 GMT -5
youdoh, take a pill, sounds like you are jealous, you must be a short guy since you have nothing better to do than tear down others that have done nothing to you except win a National Championship - something I'm sure will elude you for an eternity as much as you are crying about other people's skills. True, Ammo was named to the roster, but could not train or travel as could none of his teamates as they were still in school during the PanAm's taking finals. Let's wait and see who is invited after the euro leagues are finished next year, then you can blame someone else for USA not picking a shorter setter, again.
The game is changing, everyone is following same track - bigger is better!
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