JaQuan Lyle off the board

[Hovadipo]

from exactly one year ago... (Jaquan Lyle = JMamba5)


@JMamba5: My own city loves Coach Crean more than me

[KingPG21]

I like the Deron Williams comparison as far as physicality and body type.Wish we would have had him instead of or at least with his high school teammate.

Wait, like he'll constantly be injured..... i kid, i kid

[GloryDays]

Wait, like he'll constantly be injured..... i kid, i kid

Shouldn't have said that about Bracey Good kid on a bad team.

[realbig304]

So I guess Lyle is on campus today and will be attending Hoosier Hysteria

 

 

[twitter]NDKendrick[/twitter]

Former Evansville Bosse guard JaQuan Lyle (IMG Academy) will be on the Indiana campus today and will attend Hoosier Hysteria.

[Feaskb01]

I came on here to post something about him coming to Hoosier Hysteria. Say he wants to join the team, when and how would that work?

[Bowhunter]

I am interested as well

[ccgeneral]

Walk-on.

[LazOffTheBench]

And then a walk-off...

[Bowhunter]

Would he walk on if he has a paid scholly from Oregon?

 

Don't think he comes from a wealthy family.

[Stuhoo]

He would use the Nike cash Oregon gave him to cover his IU walk-on year!

!!!!!!???????!!!!(Oh no, I didn't really say that - eeetz a joke!!!!!!)!!!?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IUHoosier5]

Jaquan Lyle, JBJ, Thomas Bryant, OG, JM, Yogi, Stan, Troy?, etc. Imagine that for next season. Wow.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Jaquan Lyle, JBJ, Thomas Bryant, OG, JM, Yogi, Stan, Troy?, etc. Imagine that for next season. Wow.

Hanner and Rob

[Hovadipo]

Someone's important!

[Buck Naked]

Good Lord I hope Coach Crean has enough sense to stay away from this guy. Just look at his past. A lot of, let's say, controversy follows this guy. Might not be all his fault, I guess, but if it keeps happening to him some of it has to be of his own doing.

Do we really need distractions on a team that was kinda dysfunctional off the court last year?

[IU Bud]

For those with questions about Lyle, I can help. My son and daughter both know the kid. My daughter played high school basketball and he got her phone number and used to text her .... a lot! It got to be too much. My son and I were going to the game that Crean, Matta, Belein (sp?), and others were going to be at. The game was against the school my kids had gone to. The winner of the game clinched a city title and at least a tie in the SIAC title. My son got a tweet from Lyle that he had missed the bus and wouldn't be playing. My son tweeted back that he didn't believe him. Lyle tweeted back that it was true.

 

The game was so big, his school moved the game to Evansville North as they have the biggest gym. A gym full of people were disappointed that the coaches weren't coming and we were robbed of watching a good game. We got there and Lyle was in the concession stand trying to get a free bag of popcorn. He was in street clothes and wearing an Ohio State sweatshirt. I commented to my son that I hope that means he isn't coming to IU. We sat down next to a parent of a player on our Harrison team. That is when we found out that Lyle had gotten into a fight with a team mate during lunch and was suspended. We told the parent about the story about missing the bus. My son has been involved with athletics and knew if you were suspended, you could not attend school events. Shortly after he said that, the Bosse principal came over to Lyle and they walked out of the gym together. He did not come back.

 

Despite Bosse beating Harrison early in the year in a tournament, Harrison beat Bosse by nearly 25 points and played everyone on their bench. Lyle cost his team a chance at a city title and conference title. The game the year or two before that he walked of the court, Castle High School came back while he pouted on the bench. Castle won in overtime. That eliminated Bosse from any conference titles and made it a two way race between Harrison and Castle.

 

In big games, he has let his team down in several situations. Why would someone get in a fight on the day of his biggest game of the year with a team mate? We heard it was pretty violent. He should have been thrown out of the Bosse - Central game that same year as he had one technical foul for taunting and threw a punch at Central's best player. After a long discussion they gave Lyle a common foul. What? As you can imagine the crowd was ready to lynch the ref.

 

The times I have seen Lyle play, if he didn't get T'd up, he should have. His on-court antics aside, I also know some things about his character from my kids. I do not want him near our locker room! I will be disappointed if we use a scholarship we don't have and give it to him.

 

Would he start in the second semester? Would he even qualify in the second semester? 

[FKfootball]

He was a kid! Sometimes they do grow up! Crean has shown he can reign in kids.

[LazOffTheBench]

What has JaQuan done in the last year or so to show that he has grown up?

[ccgeneral]

Would he walk on if he has a paid scholly from Oregon?

 

Don't think he comes from a wealthy family.

Who financed all of them UVs every week for the past few years? Is that a new 'Tang he's driving?

[Dalton26]

So some people don't want him because he got in a fight in high school? Really?

[cchoneycut]

He may have character issues but he can ball out. Plus spending that year at Huntington Prep had to help. He didn't get in trouble there as far as I know.