Roughly eight zillion* messages from college basketball coaches get posted on Twitter every day. This one, from Indiana’s Tom Crean, is the first I’ve seen that brags about his players’ academic performance. @TomCrean I just had a chance to see our grades. We had a TREMENDOUS SEMESTER. I am really happy and proud of these [...]
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Bob Knight took some shots at Kentucky coach John Calipari while giving a speech at a fundraiser on Thursday, saying: We’ve gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that’s why I’m glad I’m not coaching. You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still [...]
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Indiana University hired Kelvin Sampson despite the fact that he was facing NCAA sanctions for making illegal recruiting phone calls while at Oklahoma. Hired him even though he was banned from making any phone calls to recruits. So what happens, now that Sampson’s been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, er… on the [...]
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Interesting new twist to the Eric Gordon/Kelvin Sampson recruiting controversy. In today’s “Hoops on Hoops” blog, Dick Weiss indicates that Gordon backed out of his verbal to Illinois over the summer. If that’s true, I take back all… well, most… of the mean things I said about Kelvin Sampson. The mean things I said about [...]
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Another day, another example of shady dealings by NCAA hoops coaches. This time it’s Indiana’s new head man, Kelvin Sampson, who managed to recruit Eric Gordon for the Hoosiers even though: Gordon had already verbally committed to Illinois Sampson is under recruiting restrictions dating back to some shenanigans when he was the head man at [...]
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