Nick Emery wants to destroy BYU Basketball

Fido wrote:

What "facts" are those?

You know, I went to find what I had thought I read, but I could not find it. Maybe it had been someone opining on the situation (CougarBoard), but somewhere I had read that it hadn't been his decision to retire, but that it was more of one of those situations where a person is told they can resign or be fired. So minus my finding the words stated by NE himself, "facts" were not the appropriate term.



Regardless, it's good to get this all behind us as this has been nothing but bad for BYU. I look forward to Mark Pope and I think we're going to like the direction he's taking this team.

EM_Puma wrote:

I don't see the deception on Pope's part. I really don't. If he pulled NE's scholarship, why does Pope need to inform all of us? It's his team. We aren't board members. We're not even share holders in this scenario. We're consumers.

Excuse me, but agree to disagree. The ONLY reason college sports exist in this day and age is because of what money fans bring (consumers). No consumers, no sports. It's as much your team and my team as it is Pope's. Fans aren't there then neither is Pope. He's the caretaker, the manager of the entity that we support.



Granted, we don't need to know of all the disciplinary issues, although we'd like to so we could understand more what we see happening, but that's not our place. Yet, when a coach is interviewed and asked about the situation between him, the school, and a particular player, I expect, if he's gone to the degree to pull the person's scholie, than he doesn't just start whistling and saying everything is wonderful.



Did Nick Emery retire from BYU basketball as we were told? Well...maybe on paper, but it seems like facts strongly indicate now that he didn't.



I'm not saying that it wasn't right to pull his scholarship for issues that Pope knows and I don't, I just simply do not not like being led to believe something that actually was apparently only window dressing.

Meh. Even as consumers we aren't entitled to know exactly how and why folks leave the program. It happens quite often in other consumer-supported businesses that employees are given the choice--retire or be fired or laid off. Sometimes this is a charitable act.



I believe that, to the extent Pope did this with Emery, it was an act of charity. "Hey, bud--we're taking the team in a new direction without you, but we want to give you the opportunity to control the narrative and retire and go out a good guy."



And now Emery (again, to the extent he was really forced out) wants to eat his cake and have it too--he wanted to spin his departure as a good thing--his choice to leave: "I am at a point in life where I am happy with what I’ve accomplished with basketball and I’m ready to start the next chapter of my life with my wife and son ", but now wants to cast the staff as shady liars.