Erik Copes says his uncle followed him to George Mason, not the other way around

Very interesting article today from Philly.com on Erik Copes moving from George Washington to George Mason. According to Copes he made the decision to leave GW after the firing of Karl Hobbs and  it just so worked out that his uncle ended up with him at George Mason to work under Paul Hewitt. Here are the quotes:

"I know," Copes said, laughing. "Everybody thinks I'm just following him. This time, he followed me."

"Everything that happened at GW [the firing of coach Karl Hobbs] really hurt me," said Copes, "because I'd been around that program since I was 13 years old. I had my heart set on going there. I did talk to people at GW, even [higher-ups in the administration]. They wanted me to stay.

"But I wanted to check other options. I wasn't sure how this was going to play out. My desire has always been to play college ball under my uncle. If my uncle didn't find a school that was going to make him happy, he was going to get out of coaching and just take a job in an office, or something. But he knew George Mason would be a good situation, and that the new coach [Paul Hewitt] has had a lot of success, so things worked out, now he's on the staff and we'll be there together."

The way the news originally broke it certainly seemed like the other way around. Regardless of the means of Copes getting here, he's here and will be a force on the Patriots next season.  It will be interesting to see his early role on next season's team considering Hewitt has a guard heavy offense and Mike Morrison and Ryan Pearson are fully entrenched as starters in the front court.