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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 6:59 pmStory from the NY Post - would he be playing basketball at any other college?? http://nypost.com/2015/03/28/the-unspok ... a-tourney/
I wonder what his college accomplishments were at Miami?
Thursday night on CBS, as West Virginia’s 6-foot-7 Jonathan Holton was at the foul line, Marv Albert spoke a thumbnail: Holton’s from Miami, a transfer from the University of Rhode Island.
Well, yeah … but, as is so often the reality in big-time, full scholarship, televised athletics, there’s so much more.
West Virginia lists Holton as a junior. It also gives his birth day, but not the year he was born. Given that three years ago he was the 20-year-old freshman star at Rhode Island, he is a 23-year-old junior, which makes him a rather senior junior.
On March 2012, Holton at URI, was arrested three times over three days.
He was arrested for secretly recording then distributing video of separate sexual encounters with two female students. As police looked closer, he was arrested for stealing the laptop of a URI student. As police looked even closer, he was arrested as a fugitive for a probation violation stemming from a strong-armed robbery in Florida.
URI, which apparently had no idea why a 20-year-old star freshman from Miami would be available in the first place, expelled Holton. Darn!
No matter, Holton returned to Florida to face the music — plea bargain probation, again — and to play basketball for a community college.
And, because nothing matters, Holton remained a hot property. That he wound up playing for Bob Huggins at West Virginia — both synonymous with the trafficking of athletes who have no other business being in any college — put rhyme to the reason.
While enrolled at West Virginia, he traveled back to Rhode Island, where he pleaded no contest to felony voyeurism, a sex crime, and was given probation. Then it was back to basketball at West Virginia!
The Associated Press reported the bottom line when Holton signed with West Virginia: “A prototype Big 12 forward who should give the Mountaineers immediate help on the front line.â€
And that’s how Jonathan Holton, 6-foot-7 forward from Miami and a transfer from Rhode Island, got to the foul line for West Virginia on Thursday night on CBS
I wonder what his college accomplishments were at Miami?
Thursday night on CBS, as West Virginia’s 6-foot-7 Jonathan Holton was at the foul line, Marv Albert spoke a thumbnail: Holton’s from Miami, a transfer from the University of Rhode Island.
Well, yeah … but, as is so often the reality in big-time, full scholarship, televised athletics, there’s so much more.
West Virginia lists Holton as a junior. It also gives his birth day, but not the year he was born. Given that three years ago he was the 20-year-old freshman star at Rhode Island, he is a 23-year-old junior, which makes him a rather senior junior.
On March 2012, Holton at URI, was arrested three times over three days.
He was arrested for secretly recording then distributing video of separate sexual encounters with two female students. As police looked closer, he was arrested for stealing the laptop of a URI student. As police looked even closer, he was arrested as a fugitive for a probation violation stemming from a strong-armed robbery in Florida.
URI, which apparently had no idea why a 20-year-old star freshman from Miami would be available in the first place, expelled Holton. Darn!
No matter, Holton returned to Florida to face the music — plea bargain probation, again — and to play basketball for a community college.
And, because nothing matters, Holton remained a hot property. That he wound up playing for Bob Huggins at West Virginia — both synonymous with the trafficking of athletes who have no other business being in any college — put rhyme to the reason.
While enrolled at West Virginia, he traveled back to Rhode Island, where he pleaded no contest to felony voyeurism, a sex crime, and was given probation. Then it was back to basketball at West Virginia!
The Associated Press reported the bottom line when Holton signed with West Virginia: “A prototype Big 12 forward who should give the Mountaineers immediate help on the front line.â€
And that’s how Jonathan Holton, 6-foot-7 forward from Miami and a transfer from Rhode Island, got to the foul line for West Virginia on Thursday night on CBS