Madison Memorial's Blue schedules press conference to discuss future
posted by Mark Miller at 5/18/2009
By Eric Lutz Madison Memorial Senior Vander Blue has been a hot topic of discussion for college basketball fans in Wisconsin since he verbally committed to the University of Wisconsin on April 28, 2008, following his sophomore season at Madison Memorial.
Despite a week of rumors and various conflicting reports about a possible rescinding of his verbal commitment to play for the Badgers, Blue has decided to stay quiet regarding his situation. All fans have heard from Blue is a subliminal Facebook post where he infers some things regarding his recruitment.
In speaking with Blue this evening, he is planning on having a 5:30 p.m. press conference Tuesday at Genesis in Madison, where he intends to discuss his future as a college basketball player.
An alleged meeting with Blue and the Wisconsin coaching staff may take place prior to the press conference tomorrow. More details regarding the potential meeting could be released at the press conference.
Even though Blue has not come out with a formal statement to this point, he has read the recent articles that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal and decided to comment on those articles this evening.
"I felt disrespected and unwanted here in Wisconsin," Blue said of the articles. "And I was just hurt inside to see how people really felt about me, and the bad part was this was all false information they were basing this off.”
Blue said he has no current grade problems, and the meeting with the Wisconsin coaching staff and UW academic advisors was to ensure there would be no future problems.
Blue received Most Valuable Player honors at the WIAA Division 1 State Tournament in March after helping Memorial capture the state title. He has recently risen to the 26
th best player in the country in the class of 2010, according to Rivals.com. Blue is also currently the No. 1 player in the state in 2010, according to Wissports.net.
Editor's Note: Eric Lutz is a senior at Madison Memorial who played on junior varsity and varsity basketball teams with Blue. Lutz will be attending the University of Minnesota in the fall.
Comments 4
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5/19/2009 8:19:24 AM
sportsfan wrote:
If what was written in the Journal was incorrect information....that writer should be suspended without pay for a month.
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5/19/2009 10:40:31 AM
luvball wrote:
Thank you for the update. Looking forward to hearing Vander’s decision.
On
5/20/2009 9:35:32 AM
a fan wrote:
So my comment asking who is using who is just deleted...
No explanation or basis.
I also notice that other comments have been too..
Any rule broken there? Clearly times have changed,,in sports and oh here.
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5/22/2009 1:02:11 PM
sportsfan wrote:
It's BS. Can't take the good with the bad.
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