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McCay and Lynch scholarships gone

"What is happening to Lynch, happened to his older brother Gary, Jeff hayes, Spencer Allred and a thousand other players at the UofM. Happened to Bo Segeberg, Wes Morelas and a number of players at MSU."

Grizfan 24 - you are missing my point entirely. The above players transferred, they did not have their schollies taken BACK. This is my point. To take back a scholarship is classless, unethical, and has no integreity. If a kid goes to North Carolina and ends up not being the player thought to be when recruited, they don't take his scholarship. That is why the recruiting process is so intense on both fronts.
 
i saw brian on the bench with a cast on, but don't remember how he broke whatever he broke. did it happen in a game/practice what?
 
The press version of what happened:

He broke his hand in an altercation at a gathering after the team returned from Sacramento State.

I'll let somebody else post the politically incorrect version. :wink:
 
does anyone think this could have played a factor into the decesion to release him? what the hell was lynch in a altercation for the kid is harmless and couldn't hurt a fly.
 
is chavez still on the team/on schlorship? if so it shouldn't be 2 years with no production =waste of time! OFFER MCGILLIS!
 
According to the people who know people of this board, they say it is gone. So, I would say it is gone. Mslacat seems to know things.
 
Chavez hasn't been on scholarship for two years now. He only received the scholarship for his freshman year.

There's no way that Krysko pulled any scholarship without meeting with a player and discussing his options with him. If the player felt strongly enough to stay on scholarship and work his tail off, then I would think the coaches would be fine with that. With Lynch and McKay, they both have questions about next year and I'm sure that also played a role in the decision making process. I'm not saying the scholarships are still there, I'm saying that the coaches didn't pull them out from under players in a classless way that you are implying.
 
Montana Gym Rat said:
Chavez hasn't been on scholarship for two years now. He only received the scholarship for his freshman year.

There's no way that Krysko pulled any scholarship without meeting with a player and discussing his options with him. If the player felt strongly enough to stay on scholarship and work his tail off, then I would think the coaches would be fine with that. With Lynch and McKay, they both have questions about next year and I'm sure that also played a role in the decision making process. I'm not saying the scholarships are still there, I'm saying that the coaches didn't pull them out from under players in a classless way that you are implying.
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I wouldn't be too sure about that Gym Rat.
 
I guarantee 100% that nobody's scholarship was taken away without meeting and discussing it with the player first.

Don't tell me that Brian was not thinking about transferring. To say that the coaching staff are the only ones with a hand in Lynch leaving Montana is absurd.
 
The same things could be said for Gary Lynch, Jeff Hayes, Jake Stuart and Matt Luedtke. If you're on any of these players sides, then of course you're going to think that they're scholarship was taken away from them. The fact of the matter is that these players all wanted to transfer because they saw better opportunites for whatever reason. Don't blame the coaching staff solely when there is a player equally involved.
 
Montana Gym Rat said:
If the player felt strongly enough to stay on scholarship and work his tail off, then I would think the coaches would be fine with that.
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So you're telling me that if these players aren't on scholarship next year, it's because they didn't want to be...Not because Krysko didn't think they should be. Am I correct in my accusation?
 
It is one thing to plan on leaving but there is another to have your scholarship taken.

Just because a coach meets with you, doesn't mean it is alright to take your scholarship. The question for you gym rat, is it alright to pulll schollies?
 
Lynch's scholarship was taken away by Coach Klassless. Whether he sat him down to talk about it really doesn't matter although from Krysco I would expect something in the mail. He wasn't planning on transferring but obviously after something like this happens he would have every right and reason to. You dont just yank scholarships when all a kid has done is worked his ass off day in and day out. If Krystowiak didn't think that Lynch was what he was looking for then dont offer the scholarship if you are just going to pull it the next year. What kind of message does that send to incoming athletes. "Hey you got a scholarship now but dont count on having it next year b/c no matter how hard you work it's ultimately up to my discretion and I like Calif. JUCO players....but hey continue to work your ass off for us and well see what happens". Yeah he was injured for a majority of the season but it was an unavoidable incident and I know he feels horrible about the whole deal. The bottom line is you dont just give/take scholarships whenever you get a wild hair up your ass. Krysco also took the highroad in the Tribune when asked about McKay possibly leaving the program he blamed it on Chris's back and made no mention of the fact that after three years on the team his scholarship was being pulled. Thats classy? And by the way, calling Krysco coach K is a disgrace to the real coach K, a West Point Grad and one of the best college coaches of all time.
 
I'm glad Krysko has the balls to pull these scholarships. They certainly aren't owed to anyone, they are earned. Why keep a mediocre kid on scholarship when you can give one to a more deserving kid. What does Krysko say to the rest of the team? "We are going to keep you on scholarship, even if you aren't good enough to keep it, and if that means we won't have the best team possible, then so be it."

gotgame mentioned the same thing goes for academic scholarships. If you don't perform, you don't keep your scholarship. It doesn't matter if you are the salt of the earth and work your a$$ off. If you don't maintain a certain GPA, you don't keep your academic scholarship. Where is the outrage on this topic. Damn lowlife professors, won't even GIVE the kids a grade so they can keep their scholarship.

Or why don't we look at where the outrage is when an out of state kid looses a scholarship? I know some lost their's in football. I guess coaches are only classless when they pull the scholarship of someone from in state, or more pointedly, when they pull the scholarship if someone you know.

Krysko is exactly what Griz mens bball needs, and he is a long way from being classless.
 
GrizWhiz said:
I am sure that Krysko noticed when Matthews began getting significant playing time following Brian's injury, their season totally turned around. I think they won 6 in a row.
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I hope your not implying that the Griz season turned around b/c Lynch went out w/ an injury. I could just be reading that out of context. Could you clear that up Whiz.
 
umdeez, I think Lynch should feel fortunate for the one year, because I never thought he Krysco should have given the scholarship, and that he would end up losing it because he is not capable of playing in the Big Sky. Brian is a great kid, but he is Frontier talent all the way. I think Krysco made the offer because he was new to the current program and was unsure what he had, but after going through the year, it was apparant to him that the team needed a lot more than what was currently there and is making the corrections. As for spewing about Kyrsco recruiting JC players, currently he has mostly high school kids with bigger upsides than Brian, and is looking to sign at most 2 JC players to be stop gap for the lack of talent left by Kennedy. I feel bad for players that lose their schollie, but bottom line is that a coach has to get the players he believes will win, or they will be gone. Brian should do fine at a Frontier school.
 
It is difficult to comprehend why someone wants to attack Krysko for doing his job. The last time I checked these coaches were on 1 year contracts, with no guarantee of anything, except win and we will reward you with one more year, and likely no raise.

Maybe most of you naysayers are self employed or independently wealthy, so you don't have to perform up to the standards established by your employer.

How soon we forget the guys that lost jobs, including Joe Glenn, Mick Dennehey, Don Holst, Wayne Hogan to name a few. Agree or disagree all you want on whether it was right or wrong, but the bottom line is a decision was made to let them go. I am not going to get into whether or not I liked some of them, whether or not I thought the firing was appropriate. The point is sometimes people make decisions based on things other than popularity contests. Krysko doesn't just conduct a Poll and let the readers decide. He is paid to make tough choices and I doubt he does that lightly.

We can debate it all we want. I think Krysko has the program headed in the right direction. When he gets the Griz program going the way we all want it to, it will be amazing how many people think he is a genius all of a sudden.

At least give the guy as much time as Kennedy and Holst had before nailing him to the cross.
 
MIle, I think much of this is how it has been handled. This is much about semantics as anything. SHould have it been handled better? Maybe so, though I know in a some of the cases the situation is made very clear, transfer and play or stay here and sit. It is a more convenient way than pulling the schollie. Rather than making the coach pull the schollie, most kids 'see' the handwriting on the wall and leave. I imagine Jake Stuart probably had the same thing done to him. Stay here and haveyour school paid and not play for two more years, or leave go to Rocky and have your school paid for and play. Fairly easy choice for most of the kids.

And if the kid stays, and doesn't play it makes it very easy for the coach to pull the schollie. I really wish Brian Lynch the best, I really do. Do I wish things would have worked out at the uofm? YEs, I don't like to see players leave. My guess this is going to work out for everyone involved, it may not seem so now, but it will. I am not though going to brand Krysko a liar and a cheat or Lynch a malcontent for what exactly happened i am not sure.
 
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