Lamont “Momo” Jones is seeking his release from Southern California in the wake of the news that head coach Tim Floyd had resigned amid the O.J. Mayo scandal.
If Jones does get his release, his likely landing spot will be Arizona, Florida or Memphis, according to sources.
“He plans on getting his release and taking a couple of visits,” Oak Hill (Va.) Academy coach Steve Smith wrote in a text.
Of course, Jones could always opt to remain at USC despite the coaching change. No school is permitted to have contact with him unless, and until, he is granted a release.
Arizona landed New York product Kevin Parrom and is also recruiting Lance Stephenson.
Memphis needs a pure point guard to run the team. The Tigers have landed 2009 wing Latavious Williams, 2010 standout Will Barton and his brother Antonio and is involved with Stephenson.
Florida lost Nick Calathes to Greece and has only two pure guards on the roster for next year in Erving Walker, another New York native, and Kenny Boynton. The Florida staff is interested in landing another guard to add depth to the backcourt.
Jones previously decommitted from Louisville (twice) and Virginia Tech and said he wants to go somewhere where he can play. That would’ve been the case at USC because Daniell Hackett declared early for the NBA Draft.
Hackett, by the way, publicly defended his former coach to the L.A. Times.
“I feel like with all this speculation, Coach Floyd did a selfless act,” Hackett said. “He resigned for the sake of the program to save the players from scrutiny and embarrassment. He acted like a man.”
What I’d love to see is people stop replying to pastaboy as though he is a Memphis fan. HE IS NOT A MEMPHIS FAN SO WHATEVER CRAP YOU SAY ABOUT MEMPHIS DOES NOTHING TO PUT HIM IN HIS PLACE! Find a different tactic to deal with him, because at this point your doing the all the hard work bashing Memphis for him while he pretends Memphis fans are really that stupid and arrogant. The guy hates Memphis because we turned on Calipari when he left, and he’s using you folks as pawns in an attempt to get back at Tiger fans. The sad thing is you keep eating it up no matter how many times I say it…
As for USC.wildcat, have you still not bothered to read the letter from the NCAA or the response from Memphis yet? You keep saying the same dumb shit over and over like it’s fact, but it’s your own personal “I have blinders on and fingers in my ears” opinion. WWW, free amenities or this new magical $10k+ are not mentioned whatsoever in either document. Even ESPN doesn’t think Memphis will get in trouble, and they’ve went out of their way to hate on the school, why do you still cling to it? The NCAA is done investigating Memphis, all they could find was in the letter sent to the school, this is not an opinion, this is a fact.
Usc condom ………. read carefully …..The NCAA said 201 athletes in 16 sports obtained “impermissible benefits” by using their scholarships to obtain free textbooks for other students. Alabama identified 22 athletes, including seven football players, as “intentional wrongdoers” who knew they were receiving improper benefits……………now Condom ….does that resemble in any way shape or form ….a clerical error in charging a person for a couple of plane rides? A person who dutifully paid his way on numerous plane rides and a couple fall through the cracks due to clerical error …..trying to connect the Alabama situation to Memphis is factually wrong and a silly process ……. Nurse show in the next whack job please
See above regarding pastaboy, good job taking the bait. I’d like the NCAA to recheck EVERY school’s SAT/ACT scores, I find it hard to believe some ignorant, hick school stuck in the Deep South are the only ones who’ve allowed people of dubious intelligence onto their campuses.
rivals is showing momo has received a scholie offer from zona and lists florida as his only other college choice to date. florida hasn’t offered a ride yet, but i’m sure it’ll be forthcoming becuz they’re in worse shape than us.
i wonder why zags ever entered memphis into this equation? i know he just put it out there as a side note, but why even bother striking a match if you’re only gonna toss it in water.
I think it’s because Memphis has been a major player in all the big names lately that it was assumed they would be in for Momo. They may still be in it, but I it seems Pastner is content to let Kemp play the point this year and have Joe Jackson take over next year, Jones doesn’t really fit into that scenario.
Kemp can’t play 40 minutes …… Pastner will take any PG support he can get this year …..top coaches don’t assume a kid will be on board next year and base an immediate need on that assumption ……. if fact Lord ….you’re post is ludicrous
NIce try, but Pastner has made no moves on any point guard since Bledsoe, and we both know you know this.
http://www.insidesocal.com/usc/archives/2009/06/jones-to-arizon.html
Arizona it is
He’s made no moves because there are no quality Pg’s to make a move on …. ….. until Momo ……if Pastner was as you suggest ….. ” content to let Kemp play the point this year and have Joe Jackson take over next year,” …………..then why did he go after Bledsoe ?
checkmate
I guess he wasn’t content at the time, he certainly didn’t go after Wall, so there’s no reason to expect him to go after Jones.
wrong again ….. Pastner is not protecting Joe Jackson …..to do so is very risky recruiting strategy …and a new coach with 9 roster players can’t roll the dice like that……if there’s a quality player out there …Pastner will go after him ….including Momo .
If you say so, not sure why you care though.
No other team in America has misfits and borderline student-athletes…….. none at all. I mean, shooting people with a bb gun…… ya, that’s kosher…….. Yup, mmhmmm……… kids being kicked out left and right in SEVERAL schools…….. yup, all around good kids! I mean….. they have to be……. because they weren’t recruited by coach Calipari or Pastner! Your delusional world must be awesome! Do you have room for me there too?
Really? They all cheated? I mean, even the “one” that is underinvestigation has been proven to have cheated? I must have missed that story in the real news. Do you get your newspaper from hallucinations of grandeur? They need presumptuous people like you for jury duty! The American Way is calling for you.
Pastaboy couldn’t be a Memphis fan! He’s just an alum! What nonsense!
Him being an ALUM certainly doesn’t qualify pasta as a Memphis fan. How absurd to even think he could be a Memphis fan!
Clearly you are another screen name of his or you are not familiar with his nonsense from the Memphis boards. He has a mancrush on John Calipari, everything else takes second fiddle.
( Not a facetious comment)
Clearly Lord2FLI you haven’t read all of pastaboy’s posts. Trust me when I say, I’m not a pastaboy fan. Ask him yourself. Maybe reading comments from previous articles might help you to understand the situation. In fact, go to the article right before this one and read a post of his that is near the bottom about him being a Memphis graduated, (scroll down to the bottom and work your way up, I’m sure you will find it eventually). For the record….. if it was so “clear” that I was another screen name of his, then why did you include “or”….? Just curious.
Because clearly it’s one or the other. I’ve seen pastaboy’s posts for months now, they come in a few varieties:
A. Memphis fans have been so horrible to Coach Cal, the two-face bastards, Coach Cal is the greatest ever.
B. Memphis was great under Coach Cal but now that he’s gone there’s no hope.
C. Everyone should kiss Coach Cal’s ass, just look at the amazing things he did in Memphis.
D. He’s a Memphis graduate and just wants whats best for the school.
None of this stuff boils down to him being a Memphis fan, it always comes back to the greatness of Cal, that Memphis was involved is besides the point. He isn’t a fan of the school, you get full dosages of that when he acts like pastaboy A or B (see his posts on memphisroar.com and thememphisedge.com if you need examples). Most of his stuff on this site falls into pastaboy C, loud mouth baiting bullshit that typically doesn’t deserve a response, but gets a dozen anyway. I’m sure you think you have an idea about him, but please don’t be fooled, his loyalties lie with Cal, not Memphis. We always see pastaboy D when he’s run out of steam and just wants to walk away from the mess he’s created. It’s any easy copout because he can just claim all the previous nonsense is a result of him being such a rabid fan and can’t help himself sometimes. I’m just tired of him playing the Memphis stereotype on this site and seeing the school dragged through the mud every time he runs off at the mouth. Folks please stop taking the bait with this guy, I live in Memphis and have never met a “fan” as full of shit as pastaboy, it’s an act and he gets his kicks at your expense when you respond.
I’m with you lord2fli…
zagsblog readers, please ignore pastaboy, or whatever his name is, he is not a memphis tigers fan. It is official, he is a Calipari lover. This is fine by me, but you can NOT be this big of a fan of Cal and call yourself a fan of the Memphis Tigers.
Yes, I understand that Cal did some VERY good things for our program. He did the best he could with what he had, but the way he left was unprofessional, period. It left a bad taste in true tiger fans mouths.
You can ‘respect’ what Cal did and still be a fan of Memphis. You cannot however be a Cal-follower and call yourself a Tiger. Not possible anymore.
He will respond to this I’m sure, but even I will not humor him. If I were you guys, I would not either.
From a true tiger fan, I hope we do well and come out of the ashes. I believe we will. Later than sooner (although we will just be okay this year), and Pastner is going to do an excellent job.
But please stop responding to Pasta, he is making Tiger fans look bad.
Thanks.
So you’re saying that people you and only you constitute are Memphis fans are Memphis Fans? Awesome, you are the Czar! I can’t refute anybody who actually claims the opposite of somebody else’s claim who has been quoted as stating they are a Memphis fan AND has never bashed the Memphis program (from all the comments that I have seen, he has only bashed Calipari haters, like you (Makes a person wonder why you really hate him?)). Tell me more oh sultan of knowledge? Wait, you tell me that you don’t believe anything he says? 1*1 = 1 thus 1/1 != 1? I MUST follow the if and only if supposition that you follow?
(The rest is not facetious)
CLEARLY the world of reasoning escapes you, when analyzing a personal matter, you seem* to only be good in cementing “truth” out of your biased opion. In your current logic, nobody can be a fan of Louisville and of Kentucky (choose the sport, because any works). Yes, I am a Kentucky fan, and I really don’t care about Memphis or pastaboy (I don’t like him because he calls people childish names, i.e. gayhawk) but no matter my dislike for him, I STILL adhere to reason, which states that it is possible for somebody to be a fan of both teams. More specifically, I’m still a fan of Rick Pitino, not as much, but still a fan. I am also glad to hear that Eddy Sutton will be inducted into the Kansas Hall of Fame. But by YOUR CURRENT LOGIC, that is not possible. Not everybody sees things in as black and white as you do. Further, calling me another screenname of pastaboy again will only result in you proving my point of your current stray logic. I DEFEND KENTUCKY, thus, Calipari by addition. But I will not do so with rumors, only with fact and or sound reasoning. I do, however, prove such points with a sarcastic nature. I do so because I hope people will read it and laugh at my comment as well as others. Sometimes I do get carried away, but when it comes time, like now, to prove my reasoning skills, I do so. Make sure you read all of this comment. Have a nice day.
(Sorry for the severe grammar and spelling errors, I’m a dual math/physics major, not an english major – =P)
(Not a facetious comment)
I do realize the “make sure you read all of this” comment at the end. It’s ok to laugh at that and point fun at it lol. But please, stop trying to pass opinion as fact. It disturbs me a whole lot. NOW, you may have a nice day lol.
What are you going on about? I get the impression you were baiting me, I responded anyway to see where you were going with this, but your response doesn’t seem to jive with mine or with memphisfanatic. I’m sure you have a point, and in no way am I I trying to belittle you, but what is it? What is your real beef? I noticed you called out USC.trojan today, so it can’t be that pastaboy was called out. So what is it? The rant at about facts/opinions what does that have to do with anything? Am I missing something here?
My logic is simple, there is no need to break it down and try to rationalize it as I will explain it in a few short sentences. You are the only person here to defend pastaboy, when the mob says burn that person at the stake and you stick up for them, you rational is called into question. Since we are all anonymous here and can create new accounts at will, it is not outside the realm of reason that a person would create another character to help them with their battles. It is nothing personal against you per se, just the out of the blue nature in which you are suddenly standing up for him. I see that this has made you a little butthurt, and for that I apologize, however, my comments about the poster going by the name of pastaboy stand and I do not apologize for them whatsoever. If he has a problem with any of this, pastaboy is usually more than willing to stick up for himself, there’s no need for you to do the whole enemy of my enemy is my friend routine, we are not enemies. And for the record (feel free to look it up), I don’t hate Calipari, I’m disappointed with him, we made him as much as he made us, there was no reason for him to be such a dick when he left.
I would be so mouthy! =P
(Not a facetious comment)
You think everything is a bait lol. You proved my point.
You obviously didn’t read all of my post, but you don’t understand my rationale*. My point, PURELY is that if you don’t believe it can’t happen, it COULDN’T have happened in YOUR world. I gave a suggestion to ask pasta if I even bashed him, which I have. If you would have read that, you would have asked him. OR you would have searched other posts. You obviously did neither. ***You have PROVEN my point, which is that your logic is STRAY (about this issue) due to your inability to see past your own *perceptual* truth.*** I am done talking about this. People with borderline personality disorder have your type of logic, circular.
Your point, or whatever is you are rambling about has completely went past me. I’m not sure what exactly your pissing and moaning about, I apologized for assuming you might be pastaboy, is there something more you are looking for?
As for the subject I thought I was discussing and that is pastaboy is not a Memphis fan, what in the heck does anything you’ve stated have to do with that? You’ve written two somewhat lengthy posts that have little to do with what I’m talking about, you demand truth from me for something I wasn’t talking about, you want me to adhere to some logic that had nothing to do with what I was talking about, and, pot calling the kettle black, you obviously haven’t been reading my posts either.
Wow, I’m going on about your logic! YOUR LOGIC ABOUT HOW PASTA CAN’T BE A MEMPHIS FAN. Ugg…… Sorry if I wasn’t clear, I was summing up you opinions on BOTH matters in one thesis statement. My apologies if that wasn’t overt enough. When I argue, I tend to assume all parties involved remember all posts. Once again, my bad for not re-stating the problem. Sorry again… But I still stand by those opinions, regardless of my lack of english prowess.
Oh, and for the record, I never “demanded” anything, I stated that your logic is faulty. YOUR the one not reading posts, enjoy.
YOU’RE****** didn’t check this past time lol.