Octavius Ellis

[UCalum08]

Originally Posted by jacobkdoyle

One of these times he is either going to hurt someone, or someone is going to swing back at him. I just don't know when it becomes too much. How far do you let him go?

Just wait til he goes to Xavier next year and he's got 30 year old punk ass Reynolds chirping in his ear. Wooooooooo, watch out now.

[mdchick]

Laetner stomped on a guy after a play 20 years ago and still got to play, just shows how different everything is

[jacobkdoyle]

Originally Posted by Mcginnjw

The game is a lot softer now. A couple of those ejections were pretty common technicals back when we had guys like Terry Nelson and Brad Jackson. Hell Huggs used to always have goons to come off the bench for these kind of fouls.

That's true.

[UCalum08]

Originally Posted by mdchick

Laetner stomped on a guy after a play 20 years ago and still got to play, just shows how different everything is

It's because of the pussification of America like you said! lol too funny but so true.

[FTBearcats]

When he is getting shut down he tends to get frustrated and lashes out. Hopefully he can keep his cool against UK, with all that size it's gonna be a tough one

[mdchick]

Fun stat, we are 3-0 in games that octavius Ellis has been ejected in this year. two of those games we were trailing when he got ejected. Heck if he can get ejected in the next 5 games we might be national champions

[BCM]

Originally Posted by UCalum08

Let the media do what they want with it. But I will def not bash Ellis for what he did. It was a mistake and hopefully he learns from it. It doesn't make him a bad kid. I certainly don't think we need to really go into it anymore than that.

Media will forget about it in favor of some goaltendingate thing going on that I know nor care anything about. It's the conspiracy of a century

[MTBU225]

Originally Posted by mdchick

Fun stat, we are 3-0 in games that octavius Ellis has been ejected in this year. two of those games we were trailing when he got ejected. Heck if he can get ejected in the next 5 games we might be national champions

Haha i like your logic!! But yea it's a confusing situation. I felt this was a malicious lash out from being frustrated. Has to be hard having 7 footers pushing and leaning on you all night then you get a BS foul called when you front a guy and he rips through your arm. I can understand why he was frustrated. Just hope he can contain that in the future with the help of his teammates. If your frustrated against Purdue what will happen against UK?

[WAITE HOYT 2]

The most important thing is that he continues to seek help for his anger. He has real problems. If you watched that game you could see it coming. He was very frustrated with his performance and lost control. This is about much more then basketball. Kicking him off the team is not the answer. In fact I think that would be the worse thing for him. He obviously was shook up when he left the court. Hope he gets this situation under control.

[CanadianBearcat]

Originally Posted by WAITE HOYT 2

The most important thing is that he continues to seek help for his anger. He has real problems. If you watched that game you could see it coming. He was very frustrated with his performance and lost control. This is about much more then basketball. Kicking him off the team is not the answer. In fact I think that would be the worse thing for him. He obviously was shook up when he left the court. Hope he gets this situation under control.

I agree, you dont bring someone like Ellis back to bail on him whenever it gets hard. None of us like to see what we saw last night, but I want to see nothing more than for this kid to succeed. I for one will not be calling for him to be kicked off the team and am excited to see his resolve in what will be a tough next game.