Looks like Juwan was right to pass on Scooby

He’s great friends with,”Madame Cleo and of course Wendy Williams!”

Juwan got a bad vibe when he met Scooby and Scooby tried to rape him.  Thank goodness for his instincts!

Part of Juwan’s role leading MBB is choosing guys of character.  He seems to do a really good job of that.  There have been a lot of great personalities around this program.

Who is to say what he did or didn’t see in scooby?  These things suck and range from he should be in prison to why did she ruin that guys life.  

I mean, we don't know what Juwan was thinking, but absolutely with some recruits a coach won't feel comfortable with his character for all sorts of reasons. This is very possible. And look at this team and what he says about constructing a recruiting class. He puts character and family at the top of his list. He is building a culture and this is definitely part of it.

He was a top instate target under Beilein who I think we cooled on when Juwan got hired and he ended up elsewhere

Here's an article with some background. Mr. Basketball in Michigan in 2020, from Benton Harbor, committed to Butler after M & MSU didn't seem interested. According to the article "Howard had other plans."

The coaches that really care about the qualities and character of the kids they recruit and bring to their school have to basically do background checks with their HS coaches and teachers.  My daughter is a senior and is being recruited for soccer right now, so we are experiencing it.  Juwan may have heard something that luckily steered him away from this recruitment.

I don't disagree with your sentiment. However, homeboy is facing a rape charge. That isn't like getting in a bar fight or struggling with a substance. A lot of people that commit a sexual assault do so more than once. It is different from a lot of other crimes, and should be treated as such. Yeah he should get therapy and hopefully he can be reformed into a productive member of society...but the psychology of abusers is a whole different breed.

I'd like to see a world where people don't give a rat's ass about the struggles of a young athlete when he does something so reprehensible to a young woman. I hope this woman can recover mentally and emotionally from this horrendous attack. This is the sort of incident that scars a person for life. Scooby can rot in jail and never get any support to "correct [his] ways" as far as I'm concerned.

You do not know.  And Coach Howard is not going to tell us.  Interesting that both us and MSU did not pursue him.  Beyond that, sheer speculation on what they did or did not know or find out in their investigation.  What we can say with confidence is that our current and immediately preceding head basketball coaches have brought in players that have not had these kind of issues.  

I see what you did there

He might be off to the penalty box for quite a while first.

As a Butler grad, I'll point out that he was already at one of the highest accountability and highest character programs in the country. It's not like he was at a school that condoned this kind of behavior. I hope he gets help and turns himself into a better person, but a good environment was already there.