Pretty Good Dougie Wiggins Article

[ct_redstorm]

http://articles.courant.com/2013-12...1_doug-wiggins-jim-calhoun-east-hartford-high

I actually played against him in high school, East Hartford was rivals w/ my school but the hype around him was insane around here. I wonder all the time how his career and life would have been different if he came to St. John's. He was always a real humble dude, I'm glad to see that he is finally on the right path.

Plus I figured it would give us a break from all this talk about Lavin and who's transferring etc.

 

[westchesterjoe]

Nice update on Wiggins..Reflecting on the situation that happened with St JOHN'S,it underscores one of the things wrong with college BB. While Doug certainly had the right to disengage from his verbal to us and Norm, the way it occurred is less than complimentary to Wiggins , Calhoun and Uconn.

Wiggins blew up at HS BB camp and before his senior year declared for SJU. Calhoun must have been berserk that Norm had gotten a kid from his backyard in East Hartford. Then the infamous barber shop incident happened and all of a sudden Wiggins renounced his verbal and took a UCONN ship..

JIMBO'S ethics here are less than complimentary . While he was within the regulations to do so, it's COACHING Principles 101 not to pursue kids who have given a verbal elsewhere. JIMBO, like always, thought this and other NCAA rules did not apply to him.

Wiggins never lived up to the hype he had and as the story indicates wasted his college career. Hope Jimbo can help him now but, he'll never get back what he lost.

 

[room112]

http://articles.courant.com/2013-12...1_doug-wiggins-jim-calhoun-east-hartford-high

I actually played against him in high school, East Hartford was rivals w/ my school but the hype around him was insane around here. I wonder all the time how his career and life would have been different if he came to St. John's. He was always a real humble dude, I'm glad to see that he is finally on the right path.

Plus I figured it would give us a break from all this talk about Lavin and who's transferring etc.

Thanks for sharing the article. Just a reminder that many of these kids go through more in life by age 18 than most of us ever will.

 

[jumbo_peanuts]

http://articles.courant.com/2013-12...1_doug-wiggins-jim-calhoun-east-hartford-high

I actually played against him in high school, East Hartford was rivals w/ my school but the hype around him was insane around here. I wonder all the time how his career and life would have been different if he came to St. John's. He was always a real humble dude, I'm glad to see that he is finally on the right path.

Plus I figured it would give us a break from all this talk about Lavin and who's transferring etc.

Thanks for sharing the article. Just a reminder that many of these kids go through more in life by age 18 than most of us ever will.

And what exactly did he have to go through?

 

[ct_redstorm]

http://articles.courant.com/2013-12...1_doug-wiggins-jim-calhoun-east-hartford-high

I actually played against him in high school, East Hartford was rivals w/ my school but the hype around him was insane around here. I wonder all the time how his career and life would have been different if he came to St. John's. He was always a real humble dude, I'm glad to see that he is finally on the right path.

Plus I figured it would give us a break from all this talk about Lavin and who's transferring etc.

Thanks for sharing the article. Just a reminder that many of these kids go through more in life by age 18 than most of us ever will.

And what exactly did he have to go through?

"Wiggins was a fragile kid, often emotionally unsettled, carrying fear that arose during incidents at home — like when the hallway to his apartment building was sprayed with bullets, or the time his brother's friend was hit in the head with a hammer, or the time his brother was pistol-whipped in a neighborhood dispute"

 

[room112]

http://articles.courant.com/2013-12...1_doug-wiggins-jim-calhoun-east-hartford-high

I actually played against him in high school, East Hartford was rivals w/ my school but the hype around him was insane around here. I wonder all the time how his career and life would have been different if he came to St. John's. He was always a real humble dude, I'm glad to see that he is finally on the right path.

Plus I figured it would give us a break from all this talk about Lavin and who's transferring etc.

Thanks for sharing the article. Just a reminder that many of these kids go through more in life by age 18 than most of us ever will.

And what exactly did he have to go through?

"Wiggins was a fragile kid, often emotionally unsettled, carrying fear that arose during incidents at home — like when the hallway to his apartment building was sprayed with bullets, or the time his brother's friend was hit in the head with a hammer, or the time his brother was pistol-whipped in a neighborhood dispute"

Haha, you beat me to it by 1 minute. I guess some people are blind to the fact that many kids grow up with no structure in their home and no guidance, a lot of times with one parent who doesn't have the time. I know much of this first hand because my fiance is a high school social worker in Harlem. But Jumbo, I'm guessing you didn't read the article.

 

[ct_redstorm]

http://articles.courant.com/2013-12...1_doug-wiggins-jim-calhoun-east-hartford-high

I actually played against him in high school, East Hartford was rivals w/ my school but the hype around him was insane around here. I wonder all the time how his career and life would have been different if he came to St. John's. He was always a real humble dude, I'm glad to see that he is finally on the right path.

Plus I figured it would give us a break from all this talk about Lavin and who's transferring etc.

Thanks for sharing the article. Just a reminder that many of these kids go through more in life by age 18 than most of us ever will.

And what exactly did he have to go through?

"Wiggins was a fragile kid, often emotionally unsettled, carrying fear that arose during incidents at home — like when the hallway to his apartment building was sprayed with bullets, or the time his brother's friend was hit in the head with a hammer, or the time his brother was pistol-whipped in a neighborhood dispute"

Haha, you beat me to it by 1 minute. I guess some people are blind to the fact that many kids grow up with no structure in their home and no guidance, a lot of times with one parent who doesn't have the time. I know much of this first hand because my fiance is a high school social worker in Harlem. But Jumbo, I'm guessing you didn't read the article.

No he just didn't see the link to the other 4 pages lol

 

[jumbo_peanuts]

http://articles.courant.com/2013-12...1_doug-wiggins-jim-calhoun-east-hartford-high

I actually played against him in high school, East Hartford was rivals w/ my school but the hype around him was insane around here. I wonder all the time how his career and life would have been different if he came to St. John's. He was always a real humble dude, I'm glad to see that he is finally on the right path.

Plus I figured it would give us a break from all this talk about Lavin and who's transferring etc.

Thanks for sharing the article. Just a reminder that many of these kids go through more in life by age 18 than most of us ever will.

And what exactly did he have to go through?

"Wiggins was a fragile kid, often emotionally unsettled, carrying fear that arose during incidents at home — like when the hallway to his apartment building was sprayed with bullets, or the time his brother's friend was hit in the head with a hammer, or the time his brother was pistol-whipped in a neighborhood dispute"

Haha, you beat me to it by 1 minute. I guess some people are blind to the fact that many kids grow up with no structure in their home and no guidance, a lot of times with one parent who doesn't have the time. I know much of this first hand because my fiance is a high school social worker in Harlem. But Jumbo, I'm guessing you didn't read the article.

I did read the whole article. I just don't buy into the pity party for alot of these kids. Everyone has there own problems and is fighting their own battles. If a kid is being bullied and goes into a school and shoots everyone, is that ok? I mean, that kid has probably gone through more than any of us ever had.

Like I said, I'm sure that everyone has their own problems. But that's called life, and you need to learn to deal with it. And if I read the article correctly, didn't he really only start getting into trouble when he got to UCONN? And by then, he was an adult, perfectly capable of making his own decisions and knowing right from wrong.
It's called life, and people need to learn to deal with it. Everyone has there own problems.

No he just didn't see the link to the other 4 pages lol

 

[ct_redstorm]

http://articles.courant.com/2013-12...1_doug-wiggins-jim-calhoun-east-hartford-high

I actually played against him in high school, East Hartford was rivals w/ my school but the hype around him was insane around here. I wonder all the time how his career and life would have been different if he came to St. John's. He was always a real humble dude, I'm glad to see that he is finally on the right path.

Plus I figured it would give us a break from all this talk about Lavin and who's transferring etc.

Thanks for sharing the article. Just a reminder that many of these kids go through more in life by age 18 than most of us ever will.

And what exactly did he have to go through?

"Wiggins was a fragile kid, often emotionally unsettled, carrying fear that arose during incidents at home — like when the hallway to his apartment building was sprayed with bullets, or the time his brother's friend was hit in the head with a hammer, or the time his brother was pistol-whipped in a neighborhood dispute"

Haha, you beat me to it by 1 minute. I guess some people are blind to the fact that many kids grow up with no structure in their home and no guidance, a lot of times with one parent who doesn't have the time. I know much of this first hand because my fiance is a high school social worker in Harlem. But Jumbo, I'm guessing you didn't read the article.

I did read the whole article. I just don't buy into the pity party for alot of these kids. Everyone has there own problems and is fighting their own battles. If a kid is being bullied and goes into a school and shoots everyone, is that ok? I mean, that kid has probably gone through more than any of us ever had.

Like I said, I'm sure that everyone has their own problems. But that's called life, and you need to learn to deal with it. And if I read the article correctly, didn't he really only start getting into trouble when he got to UCONN? And by then, he was an adult, perfectly capable of making his own decisions and knowing right from wrong.
It's called life, and people need to learn to deal with it. Everyone has there own problems.

No he just didn't see the link to the other 4 pages lol

No one said that other people don't have their own demons so I don't understand your point. A kid gets bullied and shoots up a school? That is a terrible comparison, Doug was always around the wrong crowds just based on where he grew up, he got away with more because of who he was in his community. He made the same mistakes at Uconn and Umass but he wasn't "the man" there so he wasn't going to get away with his smoking and drinking. He learned from his mistakes and is turning a negative situation into a positive. So how is he not dealing with it like a man? No one is giving him a pity party and no one gave him any easy passes. I for one think that he is dealing with his problems pretty well.

 

[L J S A]

Everything that comes out of Jumbo Peanuts' mouth is crap. You are better off just moving along whenever you see him post.