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Seems to be a rumor going around

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 1:15 am
by woundedknees
that former Oregon TE Brandon Williams may be interested in playing basketball?

Anybody know what his past experience was like?

Re: Seems to be a rumor going around

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:32 am
by duckscribe
He wanted to but from what I understand his spinal condition prohibits any sports with possible contact. He has a narrowed area that could paralyze him in an instant. He's wise to move on.

Re: Seems to be a rumor going around

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:33 pm
by TheMaehlMan
Williams played some basketball while at JUCO, so he does have some college experience with basketball.

Re: Seems to be a rumor going around

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 5:23 pm
by oregontrack
Just talking out of my ass here, but isn't the roster limit 15?

Ashaolu
Barron
Brown
Emory
Jacob
Joseph
Kingma
Kuemper
Loyd
Nared
Sim
Singler
Woods

We've got 13 scholarship players, and:

Larson
Lucenti

as walk-ons. I don't believe we'd even have a spot for Williams to walk-on even if we wanted him to, which of course we wouldn't.

We had, like, five walk-ons on the roster last year because we didn't use all of our scholarships. Teams who use all 13 scholarships only take 2 walk-ons.

Re: Seems to be a rumor going around

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 5:24 pm
by KeenanHowry15
I' ve played some ball with him at the Rec. Dude is a beast down low.