Men's Team to move off campus? (Men's players dissed by University?)

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Hearing from a very credible source close to the men's team that the basketball team was kicked off campus to accommodate the huge freshman class. Anyone else hear of this? I was told many had already moved in before being told they were out - and on their own to find off campus housing.

If this is true, that's damn disrespectful and down right crappy. :krazy:

Hopefully this is an embellished version of the actual situation.

Thoughts? Clarifications? Validations?
 

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That would make no sense whatsoever. Not that I cannot see ISU pulling something like that, but it would be a new winner of the "Head in the Butt Award." It would dwarf an already long and distinguished list of former winners...

Maybe they were moving the team into the Candlewood Suites. That is a switch I would love to make myself (if I were in college again...).

Still can't see it...
 
Revolution said:
Hearing from a very credible source close to the men's team that the basketball team was kicked off campus to accommodate the huge freshman class....
Thoughts? Clarifications? Validations?
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If your source is so credible then why do you need clarification and validation?
 
The part about them being left "on their own" to find housing doesn't sound true at all. I don't doubt they might have had to relocate some people.
 
Don't believe it. Why would you use the phrase "kicked off campus"? perhaps the team was reassigned new rooms, but to say they were "kicked off campus" is misleading to say the least.
 

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Has happened with alot of people this year....to be quite honest...they get a large check to pay rent off campus I think they will be ok...
 
I guess I don't see why it's such a bad thing... If it's true then they put them all up in the Candlewood suites which is actually closer to the Hulman Center than their dorm.

I am also sure that they were given the option, so my guess it's something that they agreed to do. They didn't just go, "get up and get out". Dude those Suites at Candlewood are much better living that the dorms the way it is...

I don't see why this is a negative thing? Please explain?
 
I assume they would do the same thing to the women's team. I doubt they were kicked out in the cold or hot. Several of the team members live off campus already.
 
Dgreenwell3 said:
Has happened with alot of people this year....to be quite honest...they get a large check to pay rent off campus I think they will be ok...
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How is it legal? How is it it not legal? It's considered university housing, they signed a contract to "lease" space for university housing until the housing problem is solved.

I mean it's not like they can't prove that their are short on housing, it would be very easy to do... lol
 

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if it did occur (which I doubt it happened the way it is being suggested), I have to assume that arrangements have been made for them and that they were not left to find something on their own. From a legality (NCAA) standpoint, I would assume that it isn't a problem because other students are having to do the same thing. The NCAA rules are all about the players being treated the same as other students...no special treatment.

Besides the basketball team only takes up about 8 rooms or so 12 rooms tops. That isn't going to make much of a dent in the housing situation anyway. I can see the ResLife staff saying that the players can't have single rooms (which they usually have) and the basketball staff saying that isn't ideal so they agreed to allow the players to be housed in the overflow housing situation.

I don't think this is anything to be worried about. Like any year where overflow housing is needed (this has happened many times over the years), many potential students don't show up, many don't enroll, etc. so rooms open up.
 
The boys are all being allowed to live off campus due to the huge increase in enrollment. None of them are upset that I know of; they actually seem quite happy with the change.
 
Thanks for the clarification. The source is a relative of a player and the player expressed discontent, thus the relative is upset. Take it for what it's worth.
 
I haven't spoken to all of them, but I can't imagine anyone really wanting to live where they did last year. Those dorms need work...like a wrecking ball!

Letting the guys live off campus could really help recruiting. I'm guessing that visits will impress kids more when they tour an apartment/house than the dorm.
 

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Not all athletes are required to live on campus. But all freshman that live outside of the 60 mile (I think) radius are required to live on campus the first year. That is where the athletes tend to come into living on campus situation. Many choose to live on campus and rightfully so. They get everything they would ever need on campus at their fingertips.

Many schools require the athletes to live on campus and many don't...it all depends. The "problem" is the NCAA requirements that do not allow for specific athletics halls. So the athletes at ISU tend to live in 3 places....Basketball, in the past lived in Mills Hall. Football usually lived in Pickerl or LQ and baseball lived in Jones Hall. With other athletes living throughout the dorms...probably the most living in LQ...I am sure Morgan can speak to the track athletes...but as I remember it they usually lived in LQ or Hines and Jones.

The question that I would have is are the MBB technically living in ISU housing (overflow) or are they actually going out and living off campus...if so would they not get the housing stipend portion of their scholarship? It really doesn't matter, but it is an interesting question. I don't care where they or any athlete lives. I am just a live on campus kind of guy, I think it is part of the all encompassing college education. Some don't agree with that and that is fine...but I beleive in the benefit of the "outside" the classroom education that occurs in the Residence Halls.
 
I think in the past they required at least the frosh to stay on campus. If I remember right, Coach McK then said it depended on how you were doing in the classroom from there.
 
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