NC State Basketball
Braxton Beverly Breaks Silence on NCAA Ruling
Braxton Beverly has broken the silence in a long blog post that details his decision to go to Ohio State, how the Thad Matta firing went down, how he ended up at NC State and his feelings on the NCAA ruling him ineligible.
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Here are some of the major quotes from that piece.
“Coach Keatts has been awesome the whole time with this. Twice, he’s had to give me bad news. When my waiver was denied the first time a few weeks ago, Coach Keatts was calm. He told me he didn’t agree with the decision, but he talked me through the process and told me it wasn’t over yet. He let me know how we were filing the appeal and he was confident everything would be fine.
When he told me that my appeal had been denied earlier this week, I could tell how upset he was. I took it pretty hard. I was shocked. I think Coach was too. Some of my family might have taken it even harder, my uncle probably took it the hardest out of everybody.”
Later he talked about how he is dealing with it.
“Right now, I’m just focusing my attention each and every day on learning. All the older guys that have been here and gone through college, I just try to take something from them every day. Anything I can learn. I’m going to class, working on getting my body stronger and in better shape and trying to be the best teammate I can be. I’m trying to take all the positives I can out of a negative situation.
But once you get off the court, it hits you hard. I want to play in games. I can’t wait to put on an NC State uniform and play in front of our fans.
And I really want to do it this season.”
The one thing missing is next steps and there are definitely some next steps in the works. Here are the latest developments in the story…