Fwd: [Husker] Journal-Star: Joe McCray Dismissed

[NUStLNorris at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/27/2006 2:25:00 PM Central Standard Time,  
mikejaixen at yahoo.com writes:

The  Journal-Star reports that Joe McCray has been
dismissed from the Husker  basketball  team.

http://www.journalstar.com/huskerextra2/blog/index.php?p=1179

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/01/27/huskerextra/editorial/doc43da6f
f7e3185077425627
This CAN’T be filed under the heading, “Shocking News.”
 
This nightmare of a season for Coach Collier MAY have just taken a turn for  
the better.  Maybe.  This sure as heck can’t hurt the overall  disposition of 
the team.  I hope they’ve bottomed out and will rebound and  show a little 
something the rest of the way (there ARE still 11 league  games left and a league 
tourney).
 
I’m not there at practice and in the locker room, but from what I’ve heard  
and seen, and from what has been written, Joe was out-of-control, selfish,  
immature and just not a very good player this year.  To say that he had  become 
a distraction is an understatement.  I won’t be surprised if NU  starts 
playing more inspired basketball beginning tomorrow (3 p.m. tip-off at  the Devaney 
Center against Missouri).
 
I’m trying to avoid the 15-yard piling-on penalty here, but anybody who’s  
been at the games this year has probably noticed Joe’s antics during timeouts  
(laughing, paying no attention to what’s being discussed, etc.) when he’s not 
 one of the five currently playing.  Did anyone see him laughing while  
sitting during the latter stages of the Colorado blowout loss in Boulder  Wednesday 
night?  
 
I hope he gets his head, priorities and life straightened out; but he had  
become an incredibly destructive element in the hoops program.  It was  getting 
tough to watch him embarrass himself on the court.  I hope Joe  someday “gets 
it,” because he sure as heck doesn’t right now.
 
Dave Norris