Renardo Sidney: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

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WOW...I dont know a thing about Sidney or Bost but thats pathetic. Good to see that a school sticks to its guns and doesnt give preferential treatment to anyone. I bet the rest of the team loves those two guys
 

IIRC, SS had Miss. State in the preseason top-25 last year ('09-'10), partly because of Renardo Sidney. Hype sometimes gets out of control - there's a guy like Sidney just about every year who's big and athletic and got some skill, but doesn't have the requisite team-first approach so you know he won't play up to his potential in college. But of course lots of people assume he's going to be really good because all the scouts are saying he's really good.
 

OSUfan said:
IIRC, SS had Miss. State in the preseason top-25 last year ('09-'10), partly because of Renardo Sidney. Hype sometimes gets out of control - there's a guy like Sidney just about every year who's big and athletic and got some skill, but doesn't have the requisite team-first approach so you know he won't play up to his potential in college. But of course lots of people assume he's going to be really good because all the scouts are saying he's really good.
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"...there's a guy like Sidney about every year..."

Does RW come to mind?
 

One would have to think after this Renardo is history-

Mississippi State players fight in stands

HONOLULU (AP)—Two players from Mississippi State’s basketball team fought in the stands Thursday night between games at the Diamond Head Classic

Sophomore forward Renardo Sidney and junior forward Elgin Bailey got into the altercation about 10 minutes before the tipoff of the game between tournament host Hawaii and Utah at the Stan Sheriff Center. Punches were thrown in the fight that lasted several minutes and was broken up by teammates.

Sidney was seen being escorted away by arena ushers and Honolulu Police, who said later that nobody was arrested.

Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury refused comment until he “finds out all the facts.”

Sidney scored 19 points in the Bulldogs’ 69-52 win over San Diego earlier Thursday while Bailey had two points.

Sidney, a highly touted McDonald’s All-American out of Fairfax (Los Angeles) High, sat out all last season while awaiting clearance from the NCAA. He has appeared in just two games this season and scored 31 points with nine rebounds. Just this week, he was suspended by Stansbury for “conduct detrimental to the team” and was benched for the first-round game loss to Washington State on Wednesday.

Bailey has started 10 of the 11 games this season and is averaging 6.2 points and 3.9 rebounds.
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-mississippistfight
 



I think that may also qualify as "conduct detrimental to the team" :)
 

Sad situation more than anything. The kid could have had it all and just throws his life away.
 

You know what makes it worse? Having a spineless POS like Rick Stansbury who's an enabler & won't teach him anything. They just announced they're not kicking him off the team, just an indefinite suspension (same punishment for the other player in the fight, Elgin Bailey), the length of which supposedly will be determined by their attitudes & behavior going forward (and probably also how badly MSU needs Sidney in order to win in the SEC). Stansbury truly is showing he's a win-at-all-costs type of coach, keeping a player around that keeps doing crap like this. Reportedly Sidney's 1-game suspension earlier was for fighting with a walk-on. Lots of rumors of all sorts of immature behavior by Sidney. He doesn't belong on a college basketball team, so why give him another chance? He's already proven being suspended for fighting (albeit only for one game) isn't enough to keep him from doing it again.
 




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