MSU AD advises Burke to not use his advice. Sparty On.
@Trey_Burke3 My advice, believe in YOUR heart & mind, everything else is interference. People u seek out is better than those that seek u.
Let me get this straight. Mark Hollis sought out Trey Bruke to advise him not to listen to people who seek him out? Classic Sparty.
I hate Twitter in general, but it's really bizarre for him to be following/tweeting at a player on another team.
I thought contacting kids at another school without permission was tampering?
"Hey, Trey? Just wanted to make sure you knew I was kidding. You should totally go, man. Seriously."
This can't be real.
I wonder what Dave Brandon thinks about this?
I guess his subject and verb have just agreed to disagree.
Not sure if it's really from Hollis, but the advice seems both relevant and pretty accurate.
Yes, and also self-nullifying.
again
This really is from the MSU AD? Great googily moogily.
The advice is sound, but it's still so... WEIRD to have an AD tweet to a player at a rival school on the subject of going pro or not.
Try extremely unprofessional. He has no business interacting with a student athete from another college.
" People u seek out is better than those that seek u."
what is u? Is this some sort of algebra problem hidden in a poorly formed sentence? Or maybe he has a 13 year old daughter who was on his twitter account.
I was hoping I wouldn't have to encounter people who still type "u" after high school... although I guess MSU and high school are pretty comparable.
News flash, Twitter only allows 140 characters. This does not allow perfect grammar.
Hollis only needed to use five more characters to change the two "u"'s into "you" and the "is" into "are." But hey, if you like having him represent your university that way, so be it.
You is correct.
However, he had enough remaining letters to use "people are" instead of "people is," and using the more correct "those who" over "those that" would have saved a letter.
Well, Dantonio got into a war of words (HAR HAR MIKE HART IS SHORT) with an opposing student-athlete, so maybe there's something in the water up there.
From the piece of shit school that has no problem calling foul when other schools do that to them, I find this tweet stranglely curious -- NOT classy. Moo U. is never classy. Ever.
March 28th, 2012 at 11:32 PM ^
Well thought out, classy post on your part.
/srs
I mean I enjoy a good "SPARTY LOL" as much as anyone, but for someone like Burke facing a difficult decision like this, it's actually good advice.
which was stated above that it's weird for MSUs AD to tweet a M player about going pro.
who approach him, like him.
"Hey Trey, follow your heart and go Pro so you don't kick our ass next year."
this has to be an ncaa violation. They have violations about stretching, how could this not be a violation
Seriously. Roy Roundtree sends a congratulatory tweet to a kid at his former H.S. and it's an NCAA violation, but the A.D. of a school can tweet this to the player on a team in the same conference. It's not a 1-to-1 comparison, but it doesn't jive the right way.
It is technically a violation. Hollis would need Dave Brandon's written consent to contact a Michigan student-athlete.
If asked, Brandon would no doubt show him the back of that pimp hand.
It really was Mark Hollis. Unless someone "hijacked" his account.
It has to be some kind of violation for an official at another school to be in direct contact with a current Michigan athlete, right? If not, it should be! (For you lawyers out there, this seems akin to a laywer contacting a represented party directly without opposing counsel being included. Big no-no!)
Get the ncaa code book out, if roundtree cant text MCcray and wish him good luck and welcome, this has to be some sort of minor violation.
Hollis' Tweet was in response to a Burke tweet. To see it, Hollis is either following Burke on Twitter. Or he searched for him on Twitter. Sparty's gonna Spart.
Nice Sparty grammar
In fairness though, previous to Hollis saying that Burke tweeted the following:
Trey Burke @Trey_Burke3
EVERYONE got something to say... smh I thought this was my life!
So admittedly it may be Hollis just giving him advice...and in this case it seems like genuinely good advice
Why do people think this is good advice? Burke is a 19-year-old kid. At that age he's likely to have an inflated view of his ability. Hollis telling him "Go with your heart" sounds to me like "Go ahead and leave school."
I'd be curious to see if Hollis has ever said something like this to one of his own student-athletes.
Fair enough I guess. I was referring more to the "People you seek out are better than those that seek you out" - which I would agree with.
Hollis knows a thing or two about point guards going pro who shouldn't have, am i rite?
I don't know. I fail to see this as a huge deal. He shouldn't have tweeted it but if they saw each other in person he could have said the same thing.
I wholeheartedly agree. This is dumb advice. The best advice Burke can get is: listen to the NBA undergraduate advisory committee (or whatever it's called), your parents, and your coach.
"Go with your heart" is usually terrible advice, anyway.
In Burke's case, "Go with your heart" probably means "Go to the NBA"
Absolutely absurd.
Maybe he was getting back at Dave Brandon for tweeting at Jerel Worthy that all NFL teams provide unlimited servings of Philly cheese steak sandwiches and french fries at their training tables.
He's not telling him to go or stay.
The real issue is that he's even contacting Burke directly. Its inappropriate, don't you think?
inappropriate? Meh. A little creepy? Probably.
So what I'm getting from this is that you think it's appropriate to be creepy...
I prefer my cats with lime helmets on their heads. I define creepy.
Trey, I know you didn't ask for my advice, but my advice is to ignore the advice from people you didn't ask for advice.
...So if Trey isn't supposed to listen to advice from people who he didn't ask for advice and his advice is to not listen to advice from people whose advice he didn't ask for, he should actually listen to his advice since that's not listening to his advice?
Well played, Hollis.
do you *really* think Hollis is that clever???? This is Moo U. we're talking about.
While I agree that Burke really has to do what he feels is best for him in the end, getting something like that from MSU's AD is bizarre. \
If it was me that was considering going pro, the person I would find most insightful on advice would be the rival AD of my school.
Yep, makes total sense.