Wilbekin 4 game suspension

[LoyalGatorFan]

Just saw this on the home page amongst all the GC staffers tweeting....eligible to return Nov 20 against Savannah State...we shouldnt miss him tomorrow or next weekend against Middle Tennessee but it might be tough beating Wisconsin without him....

[GatorsGators]

Middle Tennessee is tough. They return a lot from a solid NIT team that beat Tennessee and Ole Miss. We should beat them, but they're a team we could certainly lose to if we have an off night.

[InstiGATOR1]

Of course how much UF will miss Wilbekin in various games will depend on if UF has Prather for some or all of them.

[swg8trgr8]

What did he do?

[Crono139]

What did he do?

We don't know and probably never will.

[GatorsGators]

Of course how much UF will miss Wilbekin in various games will depend on if UF has Prather for some or all of them.And how effectively Boynton can run the point.

[Tim85]

what happened with Braxton Ogbueze, I thought he was one of the Freshman garnering a lot of praise from early camps?

[GatorsGators]

what happened with Braxton Ogbueze, I thought he was one of the Freshman garnering a lot of praise from early camps?Nothing happened... He's just a freshman at a position where experience is very valuable.

[themistocles]

Hasn't Kentucky done pretty well with Freshmen PGs the past three years or so?

As Prather showed last year, the best way to get rid of your early weaknesses is to play more and work through them.

Early in his career, that was Billy D's philosophy, but his thinking on this has changed over the past several years. I really think it was Orien Green who turned Billy D off to using Freshmen PGs. You might recall against Vandy in Gainesville, he missed a layup as time was running out and the Gators lost.

[ApexNC]

Hasn't Kentucky done pretty well with Freshmen PGs the past three years or so?

As Prather showed last year, the best way to get rid of your early weaknesses is to play more and work through them.

Early in his career, that was Billy D's philosophy, but his thinking on this has changed over the past several years. I really think it was Orien Green who turned Billy D off to using Freshmen PGs. You might recall against Vandy in Gainesville, he missed a layup as time was running out and the Gators lost.

Calathes did fine...as will Hill next year

[sleeze]

We needed wilbekin for Alabama state..

Oh nevermind

[rserina]

Hasn't Kentucky done pretty well with Freshmen PGs the past three years or so?

As Prather showed last year, the best way to get rid of your early weaknesses is to play more and work through them.

Early in his career, that was Billy D's philosophy, but his thinking on this has changed over the past several years. I really think it was Orien Green who turned Billy D off to using Freshmen PGs. You might recall against Vandy in Gainesville, he missed a layup as time was running out and the Gators lost.
This is just plain wrong. How many freshmen point guards have started for Donovan? Lucas was the only fulltime starter (Calathes was technically the three) and that was for the worst Donovan team since his first two seasons. Dupay was a two as a freshman, Nelson backed up his entire freshman year, Green was a wing, and Roberson was a two. The point in our system is extremely demanding because he to initiate the offense, make good decisions on the early ball screens, and get the ball and run a final ball screen late in the clock. Most freshman just don't have the court awareness and comfort level with the system yet.

The Prather comparison is off, too. Prather as you recall "worked through it" at an entirely different position because we needed him there after the loss of Yeguete. No coach in his right mind just throws a guy in there to see what he will do.

[rivergator]

pretty weird.Wilbekin seemed about as straight an arrow as you could ask for. As a player, I've always felt good when the ball was in his hands. His bball IQ is pretty high, I think.

[StrangeGator]

pretty weird.Wilbekin seemed about as straight an arrow as you could ask for. As a player, I've always felt good when the ball was in his hands. His bball IQ is pretty high, I think.

I was thinking the same thing. He went to this Christian high school, graduated early and seemed to adapt to college and to collegiate athletics. Who knew that he… What the hell did he do?

[MadduxFanII]

Billy was really, really disappointed with Wilbekin's vote in the election.

[Go2gtr]

Billy's quote today after the AlaSt game is that he is gathering more information on Scottie's situation and that he may return earlier or maybe sit out more than four games, depending what he finds. He waved off whatever was posted about a four-game suspension on the Gator website. He didn't think he would be back for Wisky but didn't rule it out entirely. Very strange.

Hope Scottie didn't cause too much damage after all, whatever he did.

[REM08]

Has Donovan said anything about what classification this incident even falls under? Violation of team rules, academic, etc? Its clearly behavior oriented. Did someone say that he denied it being drug related?

[grant1]

Middle Tennessee is tough. They return a lot from a solid NIT team that beat Tennessee and Ole Miss. We should beat them, but they're a team we could certainly lose to if we have an off night.

And I think they won AT UCLA by 20 last year.

[LoyalGatorFan]

Has Donovan said anything about what classification this incident even falls under? Violation of team rules, academic, etc? Its clearly behavior oriented. Did someone say that he denied it being drug related?

I remember either seeing it on ESPN or somewhere on here that it was a violation of team rules.

[Jonas]

Apparently the 4 game thing was wrong. The GatorZone writer retracted that statement, and it still seems like Billy doesn't know when he'll return. The whole thing seems weird because Billy is so vague about it, but he is probably trying to protect Wilbekin.

[REM08]

Coaches are put in a weird position when stuff like this (whatever it is) happens. Their number one priority is their players - far beyond responsibilities to the media and fans. Donovan has to act in Wilkebin's best interest and knows that there's risk in any amount of information he puts out there. Its also a difficult position in that the greater the severity of punishment (lack of a better term), the greater the strain it can put on the teams success. Luckily, in basketball, these early games don't mean tons and really don't even affect a teams seeding as much as the sheer randomness of how the committee can seed teams at times.

[MichaelJoeWilliamson]

I remember either seeing it on ESPN or somewhere on here that it was a violation of team rules.

Yep

[bposs]

Has Donovan said anything about what classification this incident even falls under? Violation of team rules, academic, etc? Its clearly behavior oriented. Did someone say that he denied it being drug related?

Probably tattoo related.