Hank Baskett Hysteria

[Rome]

trust me id stop in periodically if i could but easy banned me well over a year ago and i havent been back since

You haven't missed anything.  Someone claimed the Eagles were a 3.5 pt underdog to Houston because the Texans had a "+" symbol and "+ means positive"...

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Wrong.  Porter recently got a nice contract extension, and he's still being a bitch.  Lelie's gripe is that he's finishing up his rookie deal, and he wants to start so that he can earn his big payday.

Here's another question, could Baskett be a TE in the making?

Um... no.  What good would that do the team?

Ah, I forgot about Porter's extension. What is his bitch then? That he just wants a new team?

The think about Baskett being a TE, I asked it because of his size and leaping ability. I remember before the draft some Draft sites had him listed as a WR/TE.

[MURP]

I wonder how Baskett is with the playbook.  Reggie Brown didnt seem to have a problem with it, but every other WR who came here did.   

Also, there if Baskett is the #2 here off the bat there must be a conspiracy of collusion with good old Childress. 

[reese125]

"Ah, I forgot about Porter's extension. What is his bitch then? That he just wants a new team?"

he doesnt like the way Art Shell is running things over there.

Should sit well over here in Eagle land huh?

[Rome]

Baskett was like a 4.0 student in high school and an honor student in college.

I doubt he'll have any trouble assimillating it like Mitchell, et al.

[Rome]

BTW: Stop the nonsense about Porter.  No way the Eagles go down that road again.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

I wonder how Baskett is with the playbook.  Reggie Brown didnt seem to have a problem with it, but every other WR who came here did.   

Also, there if Baskett is the #2 here off the bat there must be a conspiracy of collusion with good old Childress. 

I think I read something on PE.com that talked about how impressed the coaches were with Baskett picking up the playbook quickly. I'll see if I can find it....

[Rome]

I heart Google...

Defining a great student athlete

Undergraduate competitor says giving up is not an option

Issue date: 4/7/04 Section: Sports


by Landon Dyksterhouse

Daily Lobo


Imagine having to be at campus at 8 a.m. and not leaving until 12 a.m. Junior Hank Baskett does not imagine this lifestyle - he lives it.

Baskett personifies the words student athlete. In the fall, he plays wide receiver. In the spring, he competes in the high jump. Year round he makes good grades in the classroom.

A typical day for Baskett is arriving for class in the morning, and then going to practice all afternoon. Exhausted after practice, Baskett returns to main campus for a night class and then it's over to the library to study.

"The hardest thing about being a student athlete is going through a full-padded practice, sitting through the meetings and everything and coming out of practice tired," Baskett said. "Then you have the night classes. That's the hardest thing - going to night class."

Baskett said he excels in athletics and academics because of values his parents instilled in him.

Baskett's father, Henry Jr., spent 30 years in the Air Force and taught him an important lesson early in life - giving up is not an option.

"One thing they always taught me is once I start something, they never let me quit anything," Baskett said. "I think that is good. That makes me want to go harder and not quit school. You may not want to do an assignment, but I know I never quit anything, and I am not going to start now."

Baskett said another reason academics is a priority is because he is on scholarship. He said athletes who do not have good grades do not play.

At Clovis High School, Baskett was a three-sport standout. He averaged 15 points and 12 rebounds playing basketball, and was a second team all-state punter and receiver. He set a state-meet record in the high jump with a 7-foot leap at the 2000 state track meet in Albuquerque. Not to mention he a carries a 190 average as a bowler.

As successful as Baskett was in athletics, he was equally successful in the classroom. He completed high school with a 4.0 GPA.

At UNM, Baskett finished third on the football team with 17 catches for 288 yards, along with three touchdowns, in all 13 games in 2002.

He earned all-Mountain West Conference honors for high jump his freshman and sophomore years. He was an academic all-MWC honoree and a first team academic all-district selection for the football team. Baskett is working toward an undergraduate degree in business.

Baskett said time management is an essential skill to have as a student athlete. He said he has to make time to relax and sleeps whenever he can.

"Managing your time and having a full schedule is difficult," Baskett said. "But you still have to have time for yourself because if it gets to where you have no time for yourself, that's when the stress really hits you hard."

Senior academic football adviser David Fox has worked with Baskett over the last three years, and said his success is inevitable.

"Hank is a great student and a better young man," Fox said. "I will be surprised if he doesn't make a lot of money in his lifetime. I think he typifies what coach Long wants the program to be about."

[ice grillin you]

You haven't missed anything.  Someone claimed the Eagles were a 3.5 pt underdog to Houston because the Texans had a "+" symbol and "+ means positive"...

wow

[Drunkmasterflex]

Like you don't know...

trust me id stop in periodically if i could but easy banned me well over a year ago and i havent been back since



1. Brown
2. Baskett
3. Gaffney

gulp


what i dont get is how can the eagles have two positions on their team that are up there for the worst in the nfl...i know you cant have 'players' at every slot on the field but the eagles have two whole areas (wr, lb) where they are pathetic...i just dont see how a team can go into a seaosn and expect great things with that being the case

I don't know if the Eagles have the worst WRs in the NFL but they sure are close.  You can't forget about KC, BUF, and SF. 

[ice grillin you]

I don't know if the Eagles have the worst WRs in the NFL but they sure are close.  You can't forget about KC, BUF, and SF.  


"the eagles have two positions on their team that are up there for the worst in the nfl"

[reese125]

christ.... I had a 4.0 in high school, then a 2.6 in college and also had one hell of a high jump--right up on a bar stool to order--best in the area

i mean, this is all well and good that Wormser Baskett likes to use the Dewey Decimal System on Friday nights in the library, but can this guy effectively be a #2 receiver in the NFL? Im shocked he even has his own thread

[Rome]

christ.... I had a 4.0 in high school

Preposterous!

[reese125]

straight A's across the board my man...no joke

[Drunkmasterflex]

I don't know if the Eagles have the worst WRs in the NFL but they sure are close.  You can't forget about KC, BUF, and SF.  


"the eagles have two positions on their team that are up there for the worst in the nfl"

True, though with both of those positions there is at least little bit of optimism they can improve.  My biggest concern on the team is the fact Dhani is most likely the starting SAM he is miscast in that role.