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B Epps is............

Posted:
Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:37 pm
by friarwolf
gone................................at least as of yesterday. Interesting to see if he is back in good graces as of tonight's game or if he is toast.................

Posted:
Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:56 pm
by abezontar
I'm out of the loop, what happened?

Posted:
Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:18 pm
by jkflamebo
thanks for the informative post, if u know why he's gone please ellaborate
edit: just saw that he is no longer on the team roster, something happened

Posted:
Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:50 pm
by ALEX LIFESON
Wow, if Epps is out tonight, that 12 point line really looks interesting.

Posted:
Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:17 pm
by Pony_Fan
So that leaves us with the following 7 players tonight: Oh my...
Dez
Killen
Rack
Spencer
Ritter
Ike
Roberts

Posted:
Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:31 am
by stobor
Can't find any information on why he was kicked off the team...just "behavior unacceptable to the program". Must have been pretty bad.
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/s ... 0c45f.html

Posted:
Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:11 am
by mustangbill67
Doh said he decided Friday morning to dismiss Epps after sleeping on it Thursday night. Whatever he did violated "core values" and to not dismiss him would give the impression he was running a loose ship, which he is not. Doh said that Epps was still in school and he hoped he would finish. The DMNs said that Doh had been after Epps on his conditioning and that Epps was quoted as saying he had never had to work as hard before. Sounds like to me Epps went after Doh or one of the coaches in practice. The players were told not to discuss the situation.

Posted:
Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:06 pm
by Canadian Mustang
anyone have any more details on this?

Posted:
Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:32 pm
by Spaz
Wait, I just feel like I blacked out at a party. What did I miss?

Posted:
Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:32 pm
by DirtyDozen123
ok apparently doherty was riding epps pretty hard at practice, epps talked back and said something he shouldnt have, and then was kicked out of practice. its not the first time he was dismissed from practice, and obviously what was said was severe enough for either doherty to release him or for epps himself to quit.

Posted:
Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:32 pm
by Junior
If you're not willing to put in the work, you don't deserve to be on the team if everyone else is. He will be missed, but the team might be stronger as a whole without him. You have to play by the coach's rules. Seems like everyone else is.

Posted:
Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:22 am
by EastStang
Ah, that's the Doherty we all remember from UNC. A no nonesense disciplinarian who will push the players to excel. I'm glad he slept on it. In the past, he probably would have dismissed him on the spot. That's a good sign. I am happy to see him making sure that the players know they are part of a team.

Posted:
Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:02 am
by mustangnation
Junior wrote:If you're not willing to put in the work, you don't deserve to be on the team if everyone else is. He will be missed, but the team might be stronger as a whole without him. You have to play by the coach's rules. Seems like everyone else is.
I wont miss him. I swear that he shot the ball everytime that he touched it which is fine if you are a good shooter. The problem is that he is not a good shooter. That guy would kill more momentum with his terrible 3-point shot selection.

Posted:
Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:56 am
by ponydawg
He had the prettiest shot i have seen in a long time, to bad they never went in.

Posted:
Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:44 pm
by Junior
ponydawg wrote:He had the prettiest shot i have seen in a long time, to bad they never went in.
I've heard that can cause problems in the long run.