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Any word on this? Would like to keep him in CUSA.

What word? From whom? Any sources? It's easy to say that to stir things up.

I mean, anything is possible. But without some sort of verification that this may or may not be the case, this is pointless.

UAB basketball commitment DeMarcus Cousins growing up off the court
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
DeMarcus Cousins stands 6-foot-10 and weighs 260 pounds. It sounds funny to say the former Erwin standout has a lot of growing up to do.

But Cousins is growing in every way a pampered kid in an NBA body needs to. It's not easy. Think how different of a world it must be for a talent Rivals.com rates the No. 6 senior in the nation.

"I'm not going to say any school or any coach's name," Cousins said, who's now at LeFlore in Mobile. "But I've been told somebody will buy me a car and my mom a house. I've heard it several times. I tell everyone I can't be bought."

When adults at ball games threaten him, they don't talk about a knuckle sandwich.

"They always threaten his life," LeFlore coach Otis Hughley said. "I guess that's what a grown man who's 6-foot-2 has to yell at a 6-foot-(10) kid. It's not going to work for them to say they will beat him up."

Cousins moved away from Birmingham with what he calls "a bad name" for what he describes as self-defense on a school bus his sophomore year.

"I wish everyone in Birmingham could see him now," Hughley said. "It's different from his reputation around the state. People would be blown away by how nice this kid is and how he is with children. The little kids he's around love him."

Cousins plans a return. Everyone knows he's committed to UAB and coach Mike Davis.

"Coach was there before I got my name and all the coaches rushed to recruit me," Cousins said. "He was still there when the coaches shied away because of that fight on the bus. He was with me before the good and after the bad."

But he has another reason to be UAB-bound no matter what college team comes calling.

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"I left Birmingham on bad terms," Cousins said. "Going to UAB is about going back and covering up the bad with the good. I want to bring a championship to my town."

But he's not naive enough to go far into happy-ending territory.

"The way things ended up for me in my city left a bad taste in my mouth," he said. "Bringing a championship back would kill most of that taste. It wouldn't kill it all, because the mistakes I've made would always be there."

Then he said something that sounds like he's making a vertical leap in maturity.

"And honestly the mistakes I've made, I don't want to forget them," he said. "If I didn't mess up, I wouldn't have a mistake to learn from. That stuff helps to make me a better person. So in a way I am thankful for it."

Does he have it all figured out? No. But what 18-year-old does? He disagreed with a South coach at the North-South All-Star game last week about whether or not he made a mistake.

"I wish that had never happened," Cousins said. "I've just got to try to be a bigger man sometimes and not blow up. I'm aggressive by nature. I couldn't be the same way on the court if I was laid-back. I've just got to still get better at that."

It's better to do that now, before he reaches an age where mistakes are not chalked up to immaturity. Those life lessons could cost him millions.

"I want to be a legend in Alabama," he said. "But I also want to be known for being a good person and not just as a good player." Jeff Sentell is the high school sports editor at The News. His column appears bi-weekly. Write him at jsentell@bhamnews.com

Cousins stands firm in his commitment to UAB. Now what his scumbag coach says or does may be another thing but Cousins is coming to UAB per Cousins and his mother.

http://undergroundbsr.blogspot.com/2008/...g-his.html

It is a blog so you can put into it what you want.

"DeMarcus Cousins is talking with other schools and is close to re-opening his recruitment. Cousins verbally committed to UAB in February because of his strong relationship with head coach Mike Davis. Before committing, his short list was Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas State and UAB. The 6-10 center is a census top 10 player in the 2009."

Thank's AB for quickly putting that issue to rest.

Yea, sure sounds like wavering.............

If you look at the schools still after Cousins it's pretty easy to tell who is trying to buy him.....


There is a blog that is out there that says he is wavering but that did not come from Cousins I can assure you.

Let's just say I believe my sources are better than that F-ing blog.

As stated in the 3rd post but here is the link to the article and please feel free to post it on the Memphis board as well.

http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories...thispage=1

Armon Bassett went to West Virginia too, didn't he?

Yea, Jeff Goodman told me his sources which were really good told him that Bassett had already committed to WVU. I attempted to correct him of his error. I hated to e-mail him that big TOLD YA!

Great to see the Memphis fans having a chuckle over this. Nice to see their obsession with us continue. Glad it isn't a rivalry.........

I'm sure you guys know that griffin came over here with this because there is a thread on the Memphis recruiting board about this blog report. I didn't realize how threaten some of the Memphis people are about Cousins and Jackson coming to UAB.

They (Memphis fans) want us to piss in our pants about this report but they (Memphis fans) seem to be the ones pissing all over themselves.

+1

let them think we are on suicide watch.......

Chuckle? They seem to be downright giddy over this blog report. They are truly a pitiful bunch. Not all of them, just most of them.

AB, can we get a blog started with Tyreke Evans is considering reopening is recruiting?

I wouldnt put any stock in this claim at all. From everything I know, Cousins is UAB-bound. The only thing that might be able to sway him would be if Davis weren't here anymore. Anything other than that, and Cousins isn't going anywhere else.

Looks like this blogger is brand new... ie, just became a member in July 2008. People can believe what they want, but this is just an attempt to stir things up.

38-0 :) Go Tigers! Cousins may or may not open his recruitment but I doubt Calipari will go after him thats just what I think.

Don't kid yourself. Calipari would take Cousins without a second's hesitation... IF Cousins were interested, which he isn't.

Like I said, if this blog had said that Jon Wall was planning to commit to UAB, everybody would write off the blog as nothing. All of a sudden it says something negative about UAB, and all the Memphis folks want to latch onto it as the gospel truth. What a joke.

38-2 Go Kansas and Chalmers. Cali who?

Cousins would not go to Memphis even for a fur coat........... If Kentucky can't buy him with a car, I doubt Calamari could buy him.............

ROFLMAO! Yeah, I'm sure that if Cousins decommitted Calipari would have no interest in him whatsoever. Whatever dude.

I'm with Attalla on this one. Coach can say whatever, but he does not get to decide where Cousins goes.

I won't rest easily on DeMarcus Cousins until he's signed and wearing Green and Gold... but some D-League blog entry really does not concern me much.

Hold up AB, you sure Cousins wouldn't be interested in a fur coat?

He already has a fur coat...........

which is why his commitment to Davis is better than his commitment to a school.

Davis

Callaway (let's not forget it is football season)

mempiss state

I'm thinking that if he's turning down houses and cars a stinky old fur coat won't get far.

This isn't any fur coat but a Mempiss fur coat. I mean there ain't no fur coat like a Mempiss smelling fur coat.

Does it come with a plasma TV and a girlfriend who swears she won't testify?

IF Cousins were to reopen his commitment and go elsewhere (which is highly unlikely in my thinking), I think you'd see an investigation. I'd definitely demand it if I were Davis or Mackin. Cousins has already stated in the newspaper for the record that at least one school (if not more) have tried to buy him off.

+1 and more than one.

It is Memphis' best interests that Cousins and Jackson (and others) go to UAB. Memphis will be fine without them. I wouldn't be surprised if Calipari (whether he likes the UAB fans or not) is indirectly telling Cousins that "unless you want to join me at Memphis, UAB is where you should go."

Wow, some guy with a blog posts his opinion, so it must be true!!! You know we could start our very own underground blog to stir up other school's fans. Nah, who has time for it. Wait, Scout said a week before Cousins committed that Kentucky was in the lead! But this wasn't Scout! It was some guy posting on an underground blog!

Seriously, this is what it has come down to. Selling advertising by getting hits to a website by posting crap like this. All of you suckers have fallen for it!

85, I think we all know this is garbage so no need to be so serious. But if I may nothing is official until all of our recruits sign on the dotted line (yes I know we all know that) so I will not be surprised to see blogs like this pop up between now and until they actually sign.

And I can't get up.

geez you guys...y'all are harsh. This should not have, in any way, turned into a pissing contest between Memphis and UAB.

fishman is like 14, give the kid a break.

But it did. I mean are you going to totally ignore some of the comments by Memphis fans about this thread on their recruiting board? It is what it is. Memphis fans are running with this blog, UK fans are running with this blog, and I'm sure KSU and Mizzou fans are doing the same.

BTW, I just think it is two fanbases talking *hit to one another or about one another.

at this thread.

Let Memphis think he isn't coming.

In other news, Michael Jackson is morphing into Diana Ross.

What the hell? Some blogger wrote it, so it must be true.

None is directed at you........ Just the idiots and they know who they are.

It just the F-UAB crowd it is directed at.

Like what??? Please show me what comments warrant a backlash.

the "FUAB" remarks don't count. Those are in signatures, normal threads that have nothing to do with UAB and probably even tattoed to some of MT.org's posters.

Is anybody here "wetting themselves"?

I dont see anything very harsh here at all. I think UAB fans have acted very normally in response to fanbase (Memphis) wetting THEIR pants in excitement over a blogger's claim that Cousins MIGHT reopen his recruitment. Most of what I have seen is UAB making fun of the excitement by a large number of Memphis fans over something so absurd. Is that harsh?

Let's just put it this way...IF/WHEN Memphis finds out that one or more of their recruits are not eligible this year...the $h!t will hit the fan over at MT.org. The same panic that UAB fans could expect out of Memphis fans when a top recruit never makes it on campus is the SAME type of panic that most Memphis fans expect(ed) out of UAB fans with this type of stuff.

Whether it is true or not is a completely different issue.

If they (Memphis fans) expect us to lose sleep over some newbie blogger's post, then they're dreaming. Maybe the majority of Memphis fans wouldn't be so difficult to deal with if they didn't take things like this as the gospel truth. Living your life with the up-and-down emotional roller coaster that results from following blogs... no wonder so many Memphis fans are ready to explode at the drop of a hat.

But again, that's not what this is really about. It's clear from MT.org forum that the Memphis fans were excited about the thought of UAB losing Cousins and just waiting for a chance to try and say "yeah, you thought you were going to catch us." As another poster mentioned, the Memphis reaction to this story is just further proof that UAB's success on the recruiting front is making some of them a bit wary of the perch Memphis has had atop CUSA.

I am headed to the liquor store after this thread........anyone with me?

Make sure you don't wet yourself....

Memphis fans sure do have a fixation with the urine of UAB fans, don't you think?

I'll be enjoying dinner and a drink at Fire and Ice.

Tell them to piss off..........