After initially declaring for the draft earlier this month, Kosta Koufos has officially decided to turn pro and not return to The Ohio State University men’s basketball team. Kosta averaged 14.4 points and 6.7 rebounds per game during his star studded freshman year. Kosta let his intentions be known earlier tonight with an interview with The Canton Repository.
Everybody who played basketball when they were younger dreams of this day when you can make it your job…God blessed me with this talent and I’m just trying to make the best of it.
Koufos stated he will be hiring an agent very soon and hasn’t ruled out the possibility of playing professionally in Greece.
Koufos’ mother also issued a statement along with her son:
We got good communication from a lot of places … and he has decided if he wants to do this, he wants to do it with 100 percent effort and it’s difficult to do the preparation that needs to take place and be a student.
Her statement indicates Kosta will be dropping out of OSU’s current spring quarter because it coincides with the NBA rookie workouts in preparation for the NBA Draft. This could potentially cripple OSU’s APR even more, which could result in more NCAA sanctions and punishments. (scholarship losses)
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWe need to get rid of this “must be one year removed from high school” rule garbage. It’s only watering down the college game more, and hurting the colleges themselves.
This is stupid, if he had the intention of doing that he should have never enrolled but instead he did and its going to cost us another 0/2 and another scholarship. Is there any sense of commitment? I hope he has a terrible pro career, but my hopes won’t matter because his lack of “god given” skills will do that for him.
koufos would have been better if he stayed another year….mullens would have boosted his cred.
have fun going 30th
It doesn’t hurt OSU’s APR unless Koufos was ineligible for NCAA competition when he left.
[…] reported by Dottingthei via the Canton Repository, Kosta Koufos has announced he’s dropping out, hiring an agent and […]
I would have loved to seen him paired with BJ Mullens next year. Would have been dominant.
I have been at Ohio State for three years and have never seen a Buckeye team with front court depth…looks like that streak will extend to four years with only Madsen, Mullens, Lauderdale, and Nikolai Kecman (JUCO Transfer) as the big men on the roster.
Here is where I was basing my K.K. knowledge off of:
http://dottingthei.com/index.php/koufos-good-as-gone/