Since some are focused on the scholarship issue, let's try to explain it with throwing out some possibilities and more speculation. One, do you think Chris Collins who has been the head coach at NU for the past three years and associate head coach at Duke for 10 plus years knows his scholarship situation better than anyone on this board or knows that he has a scholarship available. Logic would say so. But if we want to focus on irrelevancies as has been done for the past number of weeks, go for it.
As for Canyon Barry, he has a visit scheduled for University of Miami coming up this week or weekend where his dad Rick Barry is the greatest player to have ever played there and he is one of the Top 50 players of all-time in the NBA. So it will be a tough choice for Canyon. Hopefully, he wants to try to make his own history at NU.
But since this is forum and the question has been repeatedly asked, let's advance two possibilities about the open scholarship:
1. NU has some way to use Vasser's scholarship since he has chosen to stay as NU as a student and is not transferring to play basketball and wants to remain as a student at NU and chosen to not proceed with his basketball career. (See Michael Turner precedent); OR
2. Sanjay Lumpkin and his parents might agree to pay for his fifth year and his graduate studies. His dad is Jim Peterson, who played 8 years in the NBA with the Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings and one other NBA team that I am forgetting right now. His dad is a broadcaster for the Minnesota Timberwolves and is doing well for himself. I think, and I hope, he would be able to pay for Sanjay's graduate program classes and if not, there are always financial aid packages or possible grants, but as stated before, my guess is that his parents are doing all right or well financially.
These options are based on purely speculation and with no inside information, but my guess is Coach Collins and the NU administration know that there are options available or else they would not have made it public that they have pursued Canyon Barry and also Charlie Moore. I think that is logical.
As for Canyon Barry, he has a visit scheduled for University of Miami coming up this week or weekend where his dad Rick Barry is the greatest player to have ever played there and he is one of the Top 50 players of all-time in the NBA. So it will be a tough choice for Canyon. Hopefully, he wants to try to make his own history at NU.
But since this is forum and the question has been repeatedly asked, let's advance two possibilities about the open scholarship:
1. NU has some way to use Vasser's scholarship since he has chosen to stay as NU as a student and is not transferring to play basketball and wants to remain as a student at NU and chosen to not proceed with his basketball career. (See Michael Turner precedent); OR
2. Sanjay Lumpkin and his parents might agree to pay for his fifth year and his graduate studies. His dad is Jim Peterson, who played 8 years in the NBA with the Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings and one other NBA team that I am forgetting right now. His dad is a broadcaster for the Minnesota Timberwolves and is doing well for himself. I think, and I hope, he would be able to pay for Sanjay's graduate program classes and if not, there are always financial aid packages or possible grants, but as stated before, my guess is that his parents are doing all right or well financially.
These options are based on purely speculation and with no inside information, but my guess is Coach Collins and the NU administration know that there are options available or else they would not have made it public that they have pursued Canyon Barry and also Charlie Moore. I think that is logical.
