UConn could be in a pickle

[Pakuni]

Accused of major recruiting violations ...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ys-uconnphone032509&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[LON]

Accused of major recruiting violations ...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ys-uconnphone032509&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Ha Ha!

/Nelson voice

[ecompt]

33 percent graduation rate...and you cheat. Impressive combination, Jimbo.

[Tom Crean's Tanning Bed]

Seeing how Calhoun and his staff appear to be dead-smack in the center of this situation, they can't play this off of a case of a recruit going rogue with an agent.  It makes Kelvin Sampson making some illegal 3-way calls look like nothing.

However, even with all the evidence, considering how the NCAA has seemingly blown off the agent debacles with USC (Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo), I would still be surprised if they did something about this.

My prediction:  look for some hack Connecticut politican to use this on the heels of the "not one dime" debacle to claim that Calhoun should be canned.

[Brewtown Andy]

If I were a UConn booster, I'd be more concerned with the quality of person that Calhoun's recruiting.  Between Marcus Williams and AJ Price stealing laptops, Stanley Robinson being flakier than a French pastry, and this kid arriving on campus for this school year, harassing a girl to the point where she takes out a restraining order against him, violating said order, undergoing a university judiciary hearing and getting booted ALL BY OCTOBER 2, it looks like Calhoun is going to take whatever scumbag he can get.

[Blackhat]

I pretty much assume all schools who clean up in recruiting year after year are cheating.   You have to play the game to get the top 20 or so players cause lord knows the NCAA looks the other way or doesn't care to investigate on a lot of stuff just as long as that check keeps coming in......as Bob Knight said, "they need to shoot you if you get caught cheating, cause you're too dumb to live" or something to that effect.

[77fan88warrior]

It's actually good to see the underbelly of NCAA basketbal reported this time of year.

[reinko]

UCONN Message Boards are NOT happy!  They are unhappy that many are calling for a Yahoo! boycott.

Maybe someone should tell them their rivals message board is an entity of Yahoo! Sports.



http://connecticut.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1363&tid=126401096&mid=126401096&sid=1039&style=2

[BrewCity83]

A Yahoo! boycott!!??  Yeah, shoot the messenger.  Did the UCONN fans want to boycott the victims in the laptop thefts, too?

[Tom Crean's Tanning Bed]

On their Scout.com board, the Indiana fans are posting their "support" for them, blaming Calhoun's hospitalization last week on this situation, and claiming that Calipari coordinated the leak with Yahoo! as a distraction.  

[Pakuni]

33 percent graduation rate...and you cheat. Impressive combination, Jimbo.

At least now we know why he won't give back a dime of his salary. He needs every dime to pay his cell phone bills.

[GO_MU02]

At least now we know why he won't give back a dime of his salary. He needs every dime to pay his cell phone bills.

I just hope he doesn't get fined since he hopes to retire someday and needs every dime.

[🏀]

At least now we know why he won't give back a dime of his salary. He needs every dime to pay his cell phone bills.

Dude, free nights & weekends.

[SCdem@MU]

However, even with all the evidence, considering how the NCAA has seemingly blown off the agent debacles with USC (Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo), I would still be surprised if they did something about this.

IMO there is little that coaches, colleges, and the NCAA can do about agents unless there is blatant evidence that coaches knew what was going on -- which is very hard to prove.

The only way to combat agents in college athletics is for the NBA and the NCAA to negotiate a deal that would not only ban agents from the league for violating the amateur status of an athlete, but ban the player from the league for a couple years as well. There needs to be a severe financial disincentive for agents and athletes to not engage in this.

Recruiting violations and academic cheating are completely different stories because that is something that coaches and athletic directors have direct supervision and authority over.

IMO thats why USC is going to get away with Bush and Mayo and why they continue to hammer schools like FSU, Indiana, and others that are caught with repeated recruiting violations and allowing athletes to cheat.