Dwight Brewington

[LUconn]

Dwight Brewington!!!! This needs a thread all it's own. I cannot beleive what I just read in that other thread. He and Gomes used to torch Uconn. I was relieved when he left PC although a little confused. This is just amazing. That's it. I'm not doing any work today.

[LUconn]

Also he's deaf if I recall correctly. Well maybe not completely. He wears 2 hearing aides so he must have some hearing. Anyway, not that that matters but seriously, I loved this guy at PC.

[LUconn]

Well, I was close 60% hearing loss but I don't think it's a big deal.
www.insidehoops.com/ncaa/dwight-brewington-112704.shtml


He doesn't have much eligibility left. A year and a half.

msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/5217276

[PAmedic]

in the other thread- HMO was saying the guy oughta be enrolled next semester and good to go by Fall '07. wish we could get him suited up sooner. Oh well.

[WinthropEagleFan]

He should give you guys a nice boost next year in late December when he becomes eligible to play. And as long as he shoots 1-for-8 against Winthrop like he did last year at Providence, that's fine with me.

[PAmedic]

WEF whats the ruling on transfers and eligibility? I assume its NOT like FB where a D1A can go down to a "AA" w/out penalty- seeing as there's NO such division in BBall

[WinthropEagleFan]

If you transfer between two Division I teams, you must sit out a year. In Brewington's case, I'm guessing he practiced with Providence at some point during the fall semester, so even though he didn't play, that counts against his eligibility, so he will not be able to play at LU until the first semester ends next year.

[Sly Fox]

Here's a story on Dwight from the Providence fishwrap today ... the writer didn't know where he would land:

PC Notebook: It's now official: White won't be back with Friars

01:00 AM EST on Wednesday, January 4, 2006

BY KEVIN McNAMARA
Journal Sports Writer

PROVIDENCE -- The Friars will start the Big East season Thursday at Georgetown with eight scholarship players. Whether the group can become the Great Eight remains to be seen.

DeSean White will not return to the Friars, PC coach Tim Welsh confirmed last night. White didn't come back to campus after the Christmas break, but the door had remained open for him to return to the team through the holidays. However, both sides apparently are set to move on.

"I spoke to DeSean today and he said he wants to transfer to a Philadelphia-area school," said Welsh. "It has nothing to do with Providence. He has to be home to handle some family situations that aren't going to change. There are some young people in his family that he has to help care for. He has to be around them. We'll help him out. We wish him well. He left on good graces and did it the right way."

Sources said that White had become homesick after the death of his grandmother two months ago and has a younger brother at home. He had frequently traveled home to Philadelphia over the last two months and resisted overtures from the coaching staff to remain with the team. Contrary to some reports, Welsh did not travel to Philadelphia recently to meet with White, although he had spoken to him and his mother on the phone.

Ironically, one of the reasons White chose PC two years ago over Saint Joseph's, Cincinnati and Penn State, among other schools, was to get away from Philadelphia. In a Journal story from the summer of 2003, Dave Distel, an assistant coach at Cardinal Dougherty, said White wanted to play away from home but, "he still wanted his mom (Jackie) to be able to see him play. The Big East gave him that, where the Big 10 and Conference USA weren't as appealing."

Word out of Philadelphia is that White is considering transferring to either Saint Joseph's or La Salle.

Dwight Brewington, the other Friar who left the team in the first semester, still has not found a school to take him for his final year and a half of eligibility. While Brewington did have some contact with Arizona in recent weeks, one Internet report yesterday claimed that Liberty University is a likely landing spot.

www.projo.com/pc/content/projo_20060104_04pcjo.12cc83a6.html

[HoldMyOwn]

LUconn I'm sad you over look my posts in the other treads...I dropped all this info on yall but i guess you werent ready for it all! Yeah, like i said he told me last night he is 70% deaf but anyways, he did actually play in a few early games if you look at the box score, so yeah, i believe he wont be good to go until this time next year, b/c then it's a full year

[HoldMyOwn]

PA...Enrolled just not playin

[SCAR]

Depending on scheduling he may only miss 5 or 6 games next season. As soon as the final exam week is over, he will be eligible. Maybe Liberty can take finals in November next season? :-).

[LUconn]

I did overlook your posts. I read the name in the first post you mentioned him and it immediately took over my thoughts and I couldn't pay attention anymore.

[bigsmooth]

he looks like a playa when i saw him at the game last night. he was cheering hard for the flames. welcome to the mountain!

[LUconn]

Here's some sour grapes, but it does raise some interesting questions:

mb4.scout.com/fprovidencefrm1.showMessage?topicID=3487.topic

[PAmedic]

one Internet report yesterday claimed that Liberty University is a likely landing spot.

geeee....wonder the source of THAT "report"

[bigsmooth]

gotta love how people from other schools perceive LU....kinda funny.

[LUconn]

I know, I've always noticed that everybody always picks out the ceiling tile rule. It is pretty funny.

[Chris Lang]

Medic: I think the internet report he was referring to was scout.com's story. No offense, but no reporter in his right mind would take a message board post as gospel. You're asking for trouble that way.

[LUconn]

CT reporters, known as "The Horde" to Uconn fans, have been known to occasionaly include "unamed sources" in articles when it's so obvious where it came from if you read that particular message board everday.

[PAmedic]

26 replies, 3 vaguely complimentary. Not bad- we're improving, esp w/ the one guy who points out that his eternal soul is more important than BBall. Impressive.

[Chris Lang]

LUConn ... there's no doubt a post can be a gentle nudge, but without corroboration and confirmation, it's worthless as far as print goes.

[PAmedic]

you're asking us to make the assumption that all journalists have ethics? who's next, politicians?

[eddantes]

why am i a little concerned when I read the Providence message boards and they seem to be surprised that a school such as Liberty that has such strict rules is going to be the new home of a person of the character of Brewington?

[PAmedic]

hey, nobody's a saint. I'd say give the guy a chance- sometimes a change of scenery is all it takes.

[LUconn]

They seem to characterize him as some kind of selfish whiner, no doubt only since he's left. I wouldn't put much stock into what they say. Although, you do have to think about him coming from a Catholic University, much in the same way that ND is Catholic, (i.e. not really), to an evangelical one such as ours. I really hope he's aware of the school's atmosphere.

[eddantes]

I did a little research; Brewington was rated as a "super prospect" in 2003, recruited by:

Prov, Tem, ISU, NCSt, SCarol, EC, Ariz.

[Sly Fox]

I'm sure Dwight knows all about our school if he's been on campus. Those are most certainly jilted fans up there at PC. I would take anything they said with a major grain of salt.

As for the ceiling tiles, I'm glad that rule wasn't official when I was in school. Enough said.

[Sly Fox]

Here's some more background on Dwight:

Bill Reynolds: Brewington taking his dreams elsewhere

01:00 AM EST on Thursday, December 15, 2005

PROVIDENCE -- It was about a half-hour after the Providence College game last Saturday night at The Dunk, the Friars having lost to Memphis, and there in the hallway outside the locker room was Dwight Brewington.

The same Dwight Brewington who left the Friars shortly before the season started.

The same Dwight Brewington who would have been the Friars' leading returning scorer.

The same Dwight Brewington whose absence has hurt this young PC team.

"Was it a big decision for you to leave the team?" he was asked.

"It wasn't a big decision," he said. "It was a great decision."

"Why is that?"

"Me and the coach just didn't see eye to eye," he said.

Stop the presses?

Not exactly.

It's no secret Brewington was unhappy during his freshman year, no secret that there always was a certain friction between Brewington and Tim Welsh, no secret that Brewington seemed to fit the profile of a young player trying to make the adjustment to college basketball and finding it more difficult than he'd envisioned.

The word then was Brewington often threatened to transfer, the underlying premise being that he never seemed happy to be at Providence College. Maybe that was the result of his well-publicized deafness, things that had nothing to do with basketball. Maybe it was the result of what was happening on the court. Regardless, Brewington often seemed frustrated, like a poem out of rhyme.

It also was no secret that the Friar staff considered Brewington high maintenance. Welsh says he spent more time with Brewington than with any other player, that he knew when he recruited someone with the kind of handicap Brewington has they all were dealing in uncharted waters. And that even though he and his staff tried to be sensitive to Brewington's needs, "any player has to adjust to the team concept, too."

So the fact that Saturday night Brewington said he and Welsh didn't exactly see eye to eye?

Welcome to college basketball in this new millennium, where player discontent often is as much a part of every program as a strength coach and a recruiting budget. Where there's often a big disconnect between how a player views himself and how a coach views the player.

"Playing for him was like being in the military," Brewington said. "It wasn't fun. That's just the way he runs his program. I was never happy here, right from the beginning."

He paused a beat.

"But it's not like I dislike him or anything," he added. "I just didn't like playing for him. So I want to go somewhere else."

He admitted he sometimes had a difficult attitude, that sometimes he wasn't happy, but that it was only because basketball is so important to him, and he didn't think it was working out as well as it should have been.

It's also no secret Brewington wanted to be a point guard, always has envisioned himself as playing like Jason Kidd does, but that never happened with the Friars. There's little question this was a constant source of frustration, this sense he was being played out of position, his belief that he once was promised he was going to be a point guard.

Welsh, in turn, says Brewington was told during the recruiting process that he would have an opportunity to grow into that role, but that "he had to have more assists than turnovers, and that didn't happen."

Still, Welsh is surprised it's all played out the way it has.

"He used to come here and we'd talk about a lot of things," says Welsh. "At times, he seemed happy. His mother was happy he was here. I had total compassion for everything he had to deal with. But it was never easy for him. Frustrated. That's probably the word."

Brewington's plan is to leave PC after exams end next week.

To just exactly where?

Brewington wasn't specific. Maybe La Salle. Maybe Drexel. Maybe Gonzaga. Maybe Arizona. Someone will take him. You can count on that. He averaged 13 points a game last year, a credential that will get him a second chance in college basketball, a new blank slate upon which to try to write a new script.

Welsh met with Brewington last week, went over some of his options.

"There are no hard feelings," he said. "I still want what's best for Dwight. Hopefully, a fresh start will work out for him."

That sounds good to Brewington.

A new place, a new start, a new life, a new chance to chase old dreams.

"I want to get away from here," said Dwight Brewington. "Go do my own thing somewhere. I want to go somewhere where I'm going to be happy. I want to walk around with a smile on my face."

What he never had here.

www.projo.com/pc/content/projo_20051215_15rencol.17d4e784.html

Doyel's Dribbles

By Gregg Doyel
CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer

Updated: Dec/30/2005 10:18 AM

Playing with fire

Dwight Brewington is having a difficult time finding a school to take him and his 13.3-point scoring average. Maybe if he'd stop asking prospective schools to commit a possible NCAA violation ...

Brewington is the misguided Providence transfer who, it should be noted, has the letter "I" in both his first and last names. He wants to play the point. He wants to score. He wants to be coddled. All of those things might be OK with a lot of coaches, considering Brewington's near-NBA talent level, but it's one of his final requests that has turned off many schools:

He wants his next school to find a spot for his girlfriend, too.

That's the story coming from multiple schools that once were on the periphery of Brewington's post-Providence recruitment. Brewington has a massive hearing impairment and struggled to make friends at Providence, which is one reason why he left. It's a touching story, in some ways: Fearful of his ability to fit in at his new school, he wants to bring a friend with him. It's sweet.

But it's also illegal -- potentially.

It's possible, and even likely, that Brewington doesn't understand the ramifications of what he's asking. What is he asking? He's asking for whichever school he chooses to provide a smooth admission for his girlfriend, too.

That's a gray area, NCAA-wise, and gray areas scare the heck out of most head coaches. If the NCAA wanted to take a hard-line approach, it could rule that any school that lands Brewington by paving the admission of his girlfriend would be guilty of providing an extra benefit.

Brewington's good. But he's not that good.

cbs.sportsline.com/columns/weblogs/entry/9071491

Dwight Brewington, aka D-Nice
By Jason Landy / Nov. 27, 2004

When Dwight Brewington was just over a year old, he was diagnosed as being profoundly deaf. He has a 60-percent hearing loss and wears two hearing aids.

The 6-foot 5-inch Providence College swingman, born in Lynn, Massachusetts, went to high school at Worcester Academy, where he averaged 20.7 points, 7.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.3 steals per game. Nicknamed "D-nice," he had a decent first season at Providence, scoring 5.7 points a contest.

There isn't much in the game that Brewington can afford to take for granted. He doesn't always hear the basketball plays shouted out by his teammates. He doesn't always hear the rhythm of sqeaking shoes and bouncing basketball. On defense, he often plays at the top of the Friar's zone. There are times when he can run into jarring picks, even if a teammate has warned that pick is forthcoming.

Don't worry about it. Brewington doesn't. He's too busy succeeding.

If you watch Brewington play, you won't want to make any excuses for him. He's good. His favorite player is Jason Kidd, and he tries to play like him, but Brewington's skills definitely extend beyond the point. He's effective as a shooting guard and small forward as well. He knows when it's time to get the ball to All-American Ryan Gomes and when to be aggressive and take it to the hoop himself.

Brewington can hear some things when the speaker is close to him or in front of him. Sometimes he just reads lips. If he can do neither, he is not shy about raising his hand and telling the coach that he either didn't hear or didn't understand what was being said. The Friars now use a lot more hand signals to run their plays than they used to.

Brewington has started the 2004-05 season with a bang. Root for him.

www.insidehoops.com/ncaa/dwight-brewington-112704.shtml



Here's a little background on how high of a recruit he was .. Rivals had him ranked as a 4-star recruit and #51 in the nation.



Here's more from high school days:

Dwight Brewington :: Brew Pub

He was mocked and called names growing up, but Dwight Brewington’s doing all the laughing now.

The emotional 6-5, 185-pound Worcester (MA) Academy senior bolted one high school after his freshman year because he couldn’t take the abuse. Now he goes back and inks autographs. “I threatened my mom and told her if she didn’t get me out of there, I’d get bad grades,” says Brewington, who is deaf but hears at about 60 percent with a hearing aid. “I proved it, too.”

He put up sick numbers at his second school, Lynn English, before landing at Worcester, where he’s getting his academics in check and learning to control his emotions. “I didn’t choose to come here—my mom did,” says Dwight, who’s averaging 20.5 ppg, 7 rpg and 3.5 apg. “She told me I needed to focus and get ready for college.” Brewington stayed with his small AAU outfit, Metro Boston, last summer despite being courted by bigger programs. That loyalty paid off.

Schools like Arizona took notice, but Brewington opted to sign with nearby Providence so his mom, Pam Harrison, could see him play. “Providence is getting one of the most passionate kids I’ve ever met,” Worcester coach Mo Cassara says. “He’s got incredible intensity and desire. He just needs to fuel that desire in the right way, and he’s started to do that.”

—JEFF GOODMAN

slamonline.com/magazine/punks/Brewington69/

[PAmedic]

I really hope he finds what he's looking for, would be great if it was at LU!

[SCAR]

Well he is here and with only 3 semesters of playing eligibility left he will have to make it work or go NAIA. I think this coaching staff will make sure he has what he needs here. Welcome Brew!!! He and Trent Drafts at CSU would make an interesting matchup! (a drinking joke for you kids at Liberty that don't know what I am talking about ;-)