FIU is gaining nothing by this entire ordeal. It sounds like Garcia is on some sort of sick power trip to prove that a 19 year-old kid won’t get the best of him. Freddy’s not going to play for your team, like it or not. All Garcia is doing is making himself (and FIU) look bad.

I really hope someone with some sense steps in and allows Freddy’s release. At this point, I don’t even care if he makes it to K-State. The kid wants an education, and he has the means to gain a degree by playing ball. Let him have that opportunity. Otherwise, who knows what will happen if he heads back home to Colombia because he can’t pay his way at another school.

the part about Beasley? Had those problems here. I just wish the kid would have stayed at least one more year, let Frank improve his defense. The way he’s going, he’ll be a huge bust just because he wont (or maybe doesn’t know how to) play defense! Its a shame that these kids are wooed away from a great educational experience by a huge paycheck. I hate to say baseball does something right with their draft, but maybe the NBA should take a page from them: let them enter the draft out of high school, and see where they get taken, and if they don’t like it then they can enter college; but if they enter college then they have to stay three years before they are eligible again. Yeah, you may lose a few “superstars” with superegos, but they wouldn’t stay in college more than one year anyway.