You don't need to be smart to play basketabll

While we wait endlessly for Sampson news, here is a little nugget for ya...

Colorado has kicked guard Xavier Silas off the team for "unspecified reasons".

Why is that worthy of a post? Because the guy was smart! Really smart. His own website even says so:

"He has a very high basketball IQ,"

No matter that the person saying that was Silas' old high school coach. He also was the "John Brewster Scholar" in 2005!

Brewster Academy, an independent, college preparatory school, provides students with the academic, personal and social skills necessary for success in a university or college, and for life. The curriculum, delivered using best practice methodologies, aims to maximize retention of skills and content through a collaborative student-centered, mastery-learning program. The Academy, founded on the principle of moral character development, strongly adheres to the long-held belief of educating the whole person, both in mind and body, and does that through a challenging curriculum, rigorous athletic program, and strong commitment to a community living experience that emphasizes service to self and others.

Doesn't the Buffaloes want a player of that caliber? Maybe his high basketball IQ caused dissent in the locker room leading Colorado coach Jeff Bzdelik to say it was "in the best interest of the future of Colorado basketball" to boot his ass.


You don't know this but he is levitating off the court in that pic.