Jul
2007
The final 14 players for the Pan-Am basketball team were announced recently which means that many other hopefuls were cut. Among those, all SEC players except for Vanderbilt’s Shad… Something Shan Foster were cut. Chris Lofton, one of the hopefuls for the team was also cut. You can read about it here.
Of course, Chris is no stranger to people not believing in him, and playing with a chip on his shoulder. That being said, this might be bad news for the other SEC teams this coming season, as he has yet another reason to feel disrespected and that he needs to prove himself worthy. This is good news for the BasketVols who return just about everyone on the team (minus Dane Bradshaw) including a few highly touted recruits.
I really didn’t care less about the Pan American games, nor have I ever, nor will I most likely ever in the future, but knowing that Lofton was out there, I was at least going to see if I could catch a couple of games on Telemundo or wherever they were going to broadcast it, but it looks like Telemundo doesn’t want my business. Aw well, to you I say: aurevoir! (get it? cuz it’s a spanish channel, and that’s not spanish! I kill me).
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I understand feeling slighted becuase your player didnt make the team but CL said himself that he played lousy during the tryout. If you are just picking players he was good enough to make the team but if you have a tryout and you suck you get cut. A couple other good players from the SEC like Richard Hendrix didnt make the cut either and their coach is an assistant on the pan am staff.
DavW83, that is an absolutely valid point. However, it steals the thunder of my wanting to be mad without a base in truth.
Chris did admit to playing lousy during the tryouts, and I absolutely agree that a bad tryout generally equals not making a team. It’s just the SEC-elitist in me thinking that perhaps the pan-am team should be the pan-SEC team.