The Talented Mr. Udo
Sunday, 1 June 2008 3,229 Views / 131 Comments
It was a case of bad DNA.
As reported by my esteemed colleague Mr. Tony L. Atayde about the disappearance of San Beda Red Lions Forward Kevin Emeka Udo, three facts revolve around his report. He asked money from a priest for a plane ticket to his home town, like a Flipino TNT, and his father is sick.
It was made known to me that Udo’s story about his ailing father might be the prelude towards a grand escape plan, that he was setting up everybody on this empathy process. Whether his story is true or True or not, Udo has been spreading this news for months, which means that he was trying to gather affinity hoping that it would help his cause. In other words, a plan is forming.
The Red Lions left for the US to train at the Home Depot Center and join the Abunassar Basketball Camp and urban legend has it that Udo brought with him two, not one, pairs of suits. Now why would anyone bring a suit to training were all you need are your basketball jerseys, maybe 1, 2 or even 3 pairs of basketball shoes, casual shirts, jeans, jackets, sweaters to dine out and maybe do some shopping, anybody heard of a basketball suit and tie, if you do, please let me know, I might turn out to be a cool customer.
If feel bad for San Beda’s spiritual adviser (I understand the monks privacy policies and will not mention his name), talk about bad DNA, Udo is untruly Bedan and untruly Christian. Shame on him to take advantage of a priest. Since I know this spiritual adviser, I’d rather sympathize on what he’s been thru.
I’m pretty sure none of the coaching staff knew about what was going on. If they did, I assure you that none of this will ever have happened, and let’s not get carried away of accusing the spiritual adviser have been taking things for granted, but common, let’s face it, its just too bad that this priest has a soft spot.
Anyway, if the coaching staff were informed of Udo’s plan – to go to Nigeria and see his father – I assure you that they would know the sanest way to deal with him. The best way is for Udo to come back to the Philippines and then leave for Nigeria, makes sense right. But again it didn’t happen that way. It was clearly a scam of get some money and TNT. Call it what you may, even the corporate HR term, AWOL, has been used within and around the league to explain this demise.
Assumptions from the grapevine has it that maybe one of Udo’s reasons for quitting the Red Lions roster is he didn’t like being canned after their FilOil Flying V Preseaon Tournament match against Ateneo. I used the extreme description to let you all know that this is plain and simple BS. No excuses whatsoever can help Udo justify to jump ship and leave your teammates. To me any excuse from him is a lot of Bull.
But life goes on for the Red Lions. If he ever comes back, even if he ever does re-appear in San Beda’s gates dressed in Red and White, I just hope that the community don’t give him the red carpet treatment.
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mr mike. ‘udo’ is a bikolano term for s#!t.
hindi po ba pwdeng hanapin si udo sa nigeria?
baka medyo na-insecure sya kay ekwe or nagkakaron sila ng competition ni ekwe sa team… and lahat ng mata na kay sam.. mr. mike, kung sakali lang na mawala na si udo sa red lions, ano po ba ang impact nito sa team? mababawasan po ba sila ng lakas?
The Red Lions is still a very potent team even without Udo. This team is intact with all players accounted for from its previous championship run. We expect Udo never to return and it will be a waste of time to even look back. San Beda has to move forward.
you are crucifying meka because his dad is ill? this guy spills his blood for red lions on the court diba?
i cant believe the guy that wrote this page! you are so evil.
hay naku SBC, hindi nanaman patas ang laban kumuha nanaman ng isa pang nigerian player para sila ulet magchampion.
Kung di dahil kay EKWE, di kayo magkakaroon ng Back2Back champions sa NCAA.
Dami daming magagaling na players dito sa pinas bat pa kinailangan kumuha ng African citizen to play in the NCAA.
Maslalung bababa ang status ng RP basketball dahil sa maling systemang pinakikita.
magaling lang foreign players namin– di tulad ng iba na anlalaking BANO!
Call it what you may. But deception is in the air. There are proper ways of doing things and the proper channel to forward your intentions.
i agree with atom, mga foreign players of other schools. bano naman
@GreenNinja, kung taga lasalle ka man, bakit kayo may betricivic? hindi naman professional na manlalaro si ekwe, syempre Filipino din ang nagtrain sa kanya.. ateneo, may foreign player din… depende lang naman yan sa galing na nagtuturo….. magaling lang talga mga trainors ng san beda…
correction, trainer pala..
green ninja’
insecure k lng kc magaling c sam unlike nung mga import nyu. Bano!!!!!!
wag k n lng mgcomment!!!!
You’re pathetic bull crap!!!
minsan kasi pag tumulong ka na tapos ginago ka pa – hayaan mo na… ganun talaga…pagdasal mo na lang….walang pandaraya dun…tayo ang biktima kung totoo man.
wag lang yung nandaya mula una…tsk
OT: i think SBC dont even matter kung mawala si Udo, Malakas parin ang SBC without him. madami pang reserve ang pwdeng ipasok sa lineup nila.
Siguro dahil nga, kinukuha ng mga ibang school from UAAP ang mga NCAA player( like buenafe, salva, casio, and more )
From what school are you? Lassale? or CSB?
hay naku SBC, hindi nanaman patas ang laban kumuha nanaman ng isa pang nigerian player para sila ulet magchampion.
@GreenNinja
Kung di dahil kay EKWE, di kayo magkakaroon ng Back2Back champions sa NCAA.
Dami daming magagaling na players dito sa pinas bat pa kinailangan kumuha ng African citizen to play in the NCAA.
Maslalung bababa ang status ng RP basketball dahil sa maling systemang pinakikita.
its the 21st century, Global na talaga mga pre, kahit saan bansa galing basta enrolled at ok ang grade walang problema, They are not lowering the standard of playing, they are improving it, look at the NBA, they dont care what country Gasol, Ginobli, Nowitzki, Parker, Nash, Oberto etc, coz its still 5on5.
and to those who dont know, Mike Abasolo is also Red Blooded,
Yup, Red Lions will just have to move on and put their attention to the current deep bench…Madaming replacement!
Yup, I agree with bedan roar. mawala man si odu. Hindi siya kawalan sa beda.marami pa tayong weapon.Hehe
Animo bedista!!!!
Tsktsk. That’s one of the problems of having foreign players, but this might also happen if you have opportunist Filipinos in your fold.
galing talaga ng inboundpass!!paxenxa na po, paki-elaborate po ung “canned in the ateneo game”, sana po ma-interview nyo ung coaching staff ng san beda, o kahit yung mga teammate nya lang lalong lalo na si ekwe..
galing talaga ng inboundpass!!paxenxa na po, paki-elaborate po ung “canned in the ateneo game”, sana po ma-interview nyo ung coaching staff ng san beda, o kahit yung mga teammate nya lang lalong lalo na si ekwe about this incident..
2008 equals Third Roar @ 84!!!!!!!!!!!!
Red and White naman!!!!!!!!
Animo Bedista
I mean na naman!!!!!!!!!
Umpa umpa umpa!!!!
well- we normally move forward… we will not stop just because of this issue…
let’s just pray that this issue will turn into a win-win scenario…
if his father is really sick, we will pray for him- if this turned out to be a big blooper, we will still pray for kevin…
ANIMO, bros>
if odu’s father is really sick, ipagdasal na lang nating bayang bedista. nways, he is a bedan, once a bedan always a bedan.
red pride magnified!!!!!!!!!
umpa umpa umpa
how many times do we have to go through the sam ekwe issue? why do people keep saying if not for him SBC wouldn’t have won back to back titles? anyone who truly knows what basketball is would know that one single player can not carry a whole team. jeez. jealous camps should just keep their yaps shut.
Mr. Mike Abasolo, said that;
“But life goes on for the Red Lions. If he ever comes back, even if he ever does re-appear in San Beda’s gates dressed in Red and White, I just hope that the community don’t give him the red carpet treatment.”
so it means, up to this point we are still speculating as to what may happen. If Mr. Udo does not return then to bad for him he loses a lot by not playing for the RL. It is his shot to fame which he cannot possible do in the US and he will always carry the stigma of taking advantage of a good priest. Until then he deserves the benefit of doubt.
Nag text sa akin kahapon. Babalik daw siya.
UNLEASH the Dynas-THREE!!!
umasa kasi beda sa import…ayan…
wala sa import yan, no single player can carry a team, look at Lebron, even jordan, he needed pippen and the rest of the bulls to win his rings. wala nang ingitan, be happy for san beda, it took us a while to get here, but baaaaad news for the rest of you behind, we aim to stay
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Get_Blazed
Monday, 2 June 2008 at 3:29 pm
Tsktsk. That’s one of the problems of having foreign players, but this might also happen if you have opportunist Filipinos in your fold.
- Oo nga pare, madami dyan, You’ll just have to know where to look :)
GO SAN BEDA FIGHT
He will be back in time. :)
if ever emeka fixes his family issues and decides to come back here, these false allegations that this stupid mike has wriiten againts him will surely hurt him and affect his moral on the court! this article should be erased!!!
hes not coming back. pustahan.
from what i learnt from an insider, emeka did not take any money from any priest or anybody for that matter. His family from Nigeria bought and sent him a return air ticket.
because no body from the RL cared enough to help him with an air ticket. Its all the fault of SBC.
guys, dont worry babalik si udo … sa la salle. nag ambag ambag nalang kami ng buong lasalle alumni para mabayaran to, malaki pala hinihingi nito kaya pala umalis sa beda. bukod sa pera, may chiks pang kasama(alam naman natin walang magandang chik sa beda allboys pa rin beda right? muka eh) which dlsu can provide.
dont worry kahit na marami kaming import di naman namin pagsasabayin eh.
on behalf of the dlsu community i would like to thank sanbedacollege for providing us quality players, like renren and jv *with the exception of butscher* wala kasi kami makuha sa lsgh eh. sana pareho tayo magchampion tutal pareho naman tayo may import e. sali na kayo sa uaap para naman dalawa na ang nagaanimuhan sa uaap. animo lasalle! animo sanbeda!
What goes around comes around. With beda’s desperation for a 3rd championship it became gullible by overloading on imports – the tried and true formula for beda to finally win a championship after almost 30 years – possibly without doing a background check on mr. udo’.
He sent me a text awhile ago. He is enjoying himself somewhere in South Dakota. He apologized to me but he said he had to do it. He said he can’t believe how easy it was to get the money and felt sorry for the bedan crew that trusted him. But he had to do what he had to do. He advised the beda administration not to be too trusting of foreigners so this does not happen again to them. He also advised them not to be desperate about winning championships because according to him “US NIGERIANS DON’T REALLY CARE!” and that a championship would have more meaning if they just use local kids like most of the NCAA teams. He ended his text with this “LOL”.
hahahaha!! you are a dick boy!! A complete lowlife like the rest of us filipinos,, haha!!
I think if Udo doesn’t come back, it will have a significant impact on SBC’s rotation after this season. Ekwe will be playing his last season this year, & SBC was actually relying on Udo to be able to replace Sam at the Center slot. If he’s gone, then that will be a problem.
Too bad about Udo. I thought he really was a decent guy, being a Dean’s Lister. Maybe he was just too smart? Or maybe he realized that after his stint in SBC, his chances of playing for a living here is nil. Anyway, just too bad (shakes head).
I disagree with that RHK111. San Beda is still strong without the foreign-born players. It just happened that Ekwe is by far the more athletic & phenomenal athlete that has ever played college ball in the Philippines.
If you would backtrack. UST had the 6’3″ Chandler Donaldson, UP’s Rob Bornacin, DLSU’s 6’5″ Marko Batricevic, UE’s 6’7″ Somali Omar Ali, Ateneo’s Kirk Long, Zion Laterre, Vince Burke, & 6’6″ Ma Ming (younger brother of Chinese basketball star Ma Jian). You can add Norman Black, who was a PBA import back then.
All those foreign-born athletes never had an excellent homegrown support crew that Sam Ekwe had in San Beda. Bottomline, San Beda Red Lions won because they have the more complete team (every position) and superb coaching. Nothing beats that!
FEU won a UAAP title in the early 80s with an american-born athlete in its lineup.
ok lang mawala si udo, para next season malaman natin kung kaya talaga natin magchampion kahit walang import…and kung center lang paguusapan…nandiyan padin si marcelo, pascual, and taganas…marami pang makukuha diyan…GO SAN BEDA FIGHT!!!
at sa mga ingit diyan…inggit lang kayo dahil yung mga import niyo, walang kwenta…huwag kayong mag alala…last season na ng san beda na may foreign player…next season wala na…pero i’ll assure you…lalampasuhin parin namin kayo!
kapag bumalik- paltos ang mga inggitero… talunan na naman…mabuti na to at di tayo nandaraya…
The_Big_Cat, Ekwe & the rest of the SBC Red Lions complemented each other, that’s why SBC won back to back championships. Take away one, & the team won’t be as effective, or strong.
Guys like Marcelo, Pascual, Taganas, etc. are good supporting crew, but I don’t think any of them will be able to replace Udo on an individual level. I think its time for SBC to think of looking around for a prospective big man to replace Udo.
Inboundpass.com mods or site owners, I hope you will try to moderate the comments section of this site also.
Kevin Udo is a phenomenal athlete. There are also three 6’5″ players on that Red Lions bench: Taupa, Marcelo & Pascual. This is a team game. What matters most is the name infront of the jersey not the one in the back.
San Beda Red Lions: Dynas-THREE Unleashed!!!
pero, ano kaya ang pinaka dahilan ni udo, bakit sya aalis ng walang paalam? ok naman yung academics nya, dean’s lister sya, ok naman din sya sa team… ano kaya ang dahilan?
Maybe he’s just an ambitious young guy, who is out to exploit every opportunity he sees.
The fact that he will have limited opportunities here to earn a living after college basketball is probably also a factor.
Who brought Udo to SBC, by the way?