Doucoure not in Spain
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I'm going to go ahead and assume that no one will overreact to this news. I won't need to read the rest of this thread as it goes.
Really feel bad for the kid. This Spain trip would have been a great experience for him both on and off the court
Good question and I do not know the answer. A team I cover had a player with a "visa issue" last summer. They were not going on a foreign trip, but he did have to leave the country and get the visa issue resolved. He didn't have to go back to his country (Australia) though, I think he flew to the Bahamas and get things taken care of and was back in a couple of days.
Wow..I don't recall him playing 6 games last year. Sorry he's missing some great food, spicy women, and great experience. Feel bad for him. Hopefully he'll get some great 1 on 1 time to work on things here.
Somebody take him to Newark for food!!
Somebody take him to Newark for food!!
Douc practiced in full Friday and appeared ready to go. Had to be a last minute/down to the wire type thing.
I watched practice this morning at 10 AM and Coach told me about the issue and that they were hoping it could be resolved before they were to leave RU later in the afternoon. He also told me about the West Virginia player who did not make their trip as they were afraid that the kid might be detained in Spain. I feel bad for Doucoure as he practiced very well this morning.
Same here- that stinks. Seems from what others have observed, he has been putting in the work. Would have been nice to be rewarded.
Feel sorry for Doucoure. Shouldn’t have happened. The issue should have been addressed weeks before departure.
It may not be an issue originating here - may have to do with the individual governments involved.
Maybe, but likely very little fault of his own. This is fed government issue. They have grinded visa process to virtual crawl.
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Will he be playing any pick up ball with former RU players while the current team is gone? Any staff members that are staying here? He may be the first Rutgers player to play in the new practice center unless there have already been guys playing in there and we didn’t hear about it.
I hear he will be working on the practice facility hanging pictures and assembling furniture.
I don't. It is his Visa. Ultimately it is up to the player to maintain his "status." It is not like the players were informed of this trip last week, or last month. There has been plenty of time to resolve Visa issues.
Having no details, there's no way to know where the blame should be. Government entities aren't known for efficiency or expediency, and he'd likely be dealing with three of them (USA, Mali, Spain). It's possible that he didn't take the steps he needed to take, but it's also possible that hangups in the process occurred even doing everything right.
Yes- I know that I was a complete expert on visas at that age. We don’t know enough about the situation or how his country handles these things to cast judgment.