Absent some gross negligence, his case is probably weak. A torn meniscus usually does not prevent you from playing once repaired and he in fact did play in the G-League

His damages are also speculative. There is no guarantee he would have made the NBA or what his earnings would reasonably be had he done so. His best case is straight malpractice.

I doubt this ever makes it to trial. Either it is settled for a relatively small amount or it might be dismissed. 

By the way he is not the first to try this.
 

Your Honor (Barry), please strike the post above for lack of relevancy, argumentative, asked and answered etc.

Embarrassing settlement, for ML, in which he was gagged but GW got to hammer him publically for his abusing the players in its statement.  Part of the embarrassing terms.  

Over Half a decade later, banished from the sport, tells you all you need to know.  What an embarrassment, good riddance.

 

Maybe he can sue his parents for making him too small for the NBA. 

That said, I don’t know the details of his case. If he has some evidence he was lied to, then maybe there’s something here. Otherwise I doubt it this is anything.

We can and should discuss ML and the unusual athletic dept issues because they led to our team and our expectations being in the crapper for half a dozen seasons now.
  It would be seriously odd to ignore this giant elephant in the room,while our hopes veer from 13th place picks to hopefully ending up in 9th place. There's a reason why we're (so far) stuck in this basketball hell.
However,to keep bring up over and over  taunting allegations against the former coach in threads where that is not an issue under discussion is inappropriate.
   Rather than curtail or close threads that people might want to discuss at least semi-rationally, wouldn't it be better to just stop the pointless antagonizing. Or call a technical for taunting.

JF, we have said pretty much all there is to be said regarding this topic for the last 5 years. Our program has been in the toilet ever since and JC is giving it a valiant effort to try and conduct business as normal. However, the poor decisions GW made 5 years ago are anything but normal. My guess is the curse will last another 5 years so buckle up and enjoy the ride.

Knapp is gone. Maltzman is gone. Nero disappeared in the middle of the night. Lonergan was paid a handsome sum in order to keep GW's dirty laundry and incompetence out of the public eye.

There's just 1 guy here (2 if you include Brian Paul Jenny) that's infatuated with ML. The dude. Maybe ML kicked him out of the locker room, wouldn't take a photo with him, wouldn't be a reference on his job application, who knows?

Read the Deadspin article - it will answer all of your questions on what happened. If that doesn't work, write a letter to Knapp or Maltzman. They made these piss poor decisions that we continue to live with 5 years later!

Let's revisit why Hobbs was fired. It was only 10 years ago. I'm going to the Terps board now. Maybe I'll start a thread on the firing of Bob Wade.

Gwmayhem wrote:

Thank you JF and GWRising for speaking up.  I often feel as if I am in this fight without much support.

The fight is against a poster who epitomizes the very definition of a troll.  His purpose here is to annoy and antagonize.  He does this by taking positions on subjects that very few if any people would support and then repeating his takes so that myself and others will take him on.  The more outlandish his view, the more attention he will attract.  The more times he repeats the same thing, the more annoying he will become.  This is exactly what he wants.  

I can only hope that if enough people will speak out against him, if enough people express their displeasure over seemingly every thread interrupted with his crap to use GWRising's words, then Barry will take action.    

I think Barry should take action - but also against you for contributing to the bickering.  Just stop, please.

GWRising wrote:

Absent some gross negligence, his case is probably weak. A torn meniscus usually does not prevent you from playing once repaired and he in fact did play in the G-League

His damages are also speculative. There is no guarantee he would have made the NBA or what his earnings would reasonably be had he done so. His best case is straight malpractice.

I doubt this ever makes it to trial. Either it is settled for a relatively small amount or it might be dismissed. 

By the way he is not the first to try this.
 

Who is the other player to sue their school like this? I don't recall something like this happening before especially from an all-time great player who graduated/played all 4 years. I figure someone like Myles Powell would always have a home/employment/high-end connections with Seton Hall because of how great he was, so he wouldn't want to burn that bridge by suing them. 

Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Max Blank allegedly have his basketball career ruined due to his being played while not yet recovered from a serious injury?     (FYI...for those not around long enough to remember Max, who played in the mid to late 1980s, his was quite a story.   A Russian who came to GW with about as much hype as any player I can remember, with the possible exception of Yinka).

Oh well! On a non basketball side note, Where were the Black Uniformed, White helmeted 6'3 guys with batons  with CDU on their  helmets in January. They were pictured all over the "72 Cherry Tree. They kicked the shit out of a lot of people near the GW campus in 1971.  Were they disbanded sometime ago?  I kept looking for them to come out and break up the assembly near the capital building in January. Didn't see one CDU guy,  which shocked me. . Still have nightmares of the Civil Disorder Units. I'll go and look up and see what happened to these nasty guys.  Poof!