Diloreto signs with Utah State
Posted on September 1st, 2009 – 2:58 PMBy John Millea
Anthony Diloreto, the 7-foot former Hopkins basketball player who was involved in a bank robbery, has signed with Utah State and will be on the Aggies roster for the coming season.
“Anthony comes from an unbelievable high school program,” said Utah State coach Stew Morrill. “I have known Ken Novak for many years and it is widely known that he has one of the best high school basketball programs in the country. Ken’s recommendation of Anthony as a player and a person was very important in our decision to pursue him.”
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7 Responses to "Diloreto signs with Utah State"
Wow, if this is the way to get ahead maybe I’ll shoot my boss to get a promotion.
Good luck kid, just don’t steal any exams from your professors.
Unbelievable!!! For all the good kids who walk the straight and narrow - it just doesn’t send a good message.
If this kid really robbed a bank, he should be doin’ time in the can! What do you say to the kid who works part time, goes to school etc.? If you really want to play college sports, rob a bank, get some ’street cred’ and you’ll get your chance?
Agreed. Truly unbelievable. Way to teach this kid a lesson. Can’t wait to see his name in the news again in a couple years. We’ve been down this road before.
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Icannot believe what I am reading.
What a stupid,dumb move Utah State made.
But then again is that not the same state where men have a dozen wifes and 20 children?
Hey - I know this kid a little bit. He played AAU ball with my nephew, and he always seemed like a decent kid. Kind of quiet, definitely not a trouble-maker.
I think this is one of those cases where a basically good kid made a really terrible mistake in judgement. Do we throw away the rest of his life, or give him a chance to make something of himself?
And for people who don’t know the whole story - he apparently let a friend talk him into being the get-away driver for an attempted bank robbery. Admittedly a bad choice, but he was not the instigator and, to the best of my knowledge, never entered the bank.
And as the article said, his HS coach vouched for him. I don’t think Kenny Novak is going to go out on a limb for a bad kid.
Don’t jump to conclusions when you don’t have all the facts.
Sorry, gotta disagree with you short ornery norwegian. I don’t care if this kid got talked into being a getaway driver. If anything, it shows that he has ZERO common sense. Not to mention, he had to have known if he got caught, he would loose his scholarship and probably be in prison. I know if I were an AD or coach at Utah State, I simply could not trust an individual who made such a stupid choice.
