The price of "big time" football

[uconnell]

Free Shoes university

 

[upstater]

Couldn't agree more about Calhoun. I, too, was worried. The laptops, Miles, Wiggins and APR stuff really had concerned me too.

What did the laptops have to do with Calhoun?

 

[Dooley]

What did the laptops have to do with Calhoun?

Happened under his watch. Obviously, the coach is held responsible for everything in his program under his tenure, good and bad.

 

[upstater]

Happened under his watch. Obviously, the coach is held responsible for everything in his program under his tenure, good and bad.

With that standard, every coach in America is on probation, including Ollie. For Olander and Enosch Wolf, and recruiting Brandon Austin and JaKeenan Gant.

The problem isn't that things happen under one's watch, it's that they are buried--systematically--under the rug.

 

[Dooley]

With that standard, every coach in America is on probation, including Ollie. For Olander and Enosch Wolf, and recruiting Brandon Austin and JaKeenan Gant.

The problem isn't that things happen under one's watch, it's that they are buried--systematically--under the rug.

I was responding to another reply that addressed past concern over Calhoun's program at a point in time. I am/was one of those people. There just seemed to be a rash of events that happened in Calhoun's later years that made me uneasy about the effects it would have on UCONN's reputation (which is what I ultimately care most about). Just because they weren't swept under the rug doesn't make me any less uneasy about them.

 

[upstater]

I was responding to another reply that addressed past concern over Calhoun's program at a point in time. I am/was one of those people. There just seemed to be a rash of events that happened in Calhoun's later years that made me uneasy about the effects it would have on UCONN's reputation (which is what I ultimately care most about). Just because they weren't swept under the rug doesn't make me any less uneasy about them.

AJ Price was part of the laptop thing. Kid's parents were Ivy league grads. UConn self-reported on Miles back in 2007 when it first got wind of the Nochimson tie. We've been over APR again and again.

Given the way this bball world operates, this seems par for the course everywhere. Cutting corners for academics goes on everywhere. A kid getting into trouble. Too many phone calls to recruits.

 

[Dooley]

AJ Price was part of the laptop thing. Kid's parents were Ivy league grads. UConn self-reported on Miles back in 2007 when it first got wind of the Nochimson tie. We've been over APR again and again.

Given the way this bball world operates, this seems par for the course everywhere. Cutting corners for academics goes on everywhere. A kid getting into trouble. Too many phone calls to recruits.

I understand - I'm not interested in debating all of these again (it's been exhausted here and everywhere else). All I said is that it made me uneasy. I just want to leave it at that.

 

[Fishy]

Yeah, because covering up and then hampering an investigation of sexual assault is analogous to anything that has ever happened at UConn.

Honestly, I wonder how bright some of you are.

 

[WestHartHusk]

@billybud where are you to defendefend the honor of fsu?

 

[upstater]

@billybud where are you to defendefend the honor of fsu?

He's out celebrating that huge win over mighty Syracuse (FSU's schedule leaves much to be desired, Cuse is awful).

 

[Huskybite]

http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?p=45744 I'm speechless. Is this a rebuttal? A defense?

 

[businesslawyer]

http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?p=45744 I'm speechless. Is this a rebuttal? A defense?

That is satire. And, unlike when someone is sarcastic in a one liner on an internet board, that appears fairly obvious.

 

[Huskybite]

http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?p=45744 I'm speechless. Is this a rebuttal? A defense?

Got the sarcasm part. It's a little misplaced or inappropriate. Guess I need to lighten up.

 

[CL82]

Couldn't agree more about Calhoun. I, too, was worried. The laptops, Miles, Wiggins and APR stuff really had concerned me too.

Mmmm, that's a pretty big reach as a comparison both in the original action and in the university's response.

 

[uconnbill]

Of course the NCAA is no where's to be seen. Just like the UNC with fake classes and nothing happening.

 

[whaler11]

Oh the legal system isn't working... let's point out the NCAA didn't step up? When the State of Florida can't police... you'd have the expectation the NCAA can?

 

[ZooCougar]

FSU and Tallahassee people have always been a bunch of worthless white trash types anyways. Probably worse than an SEC school. The school is merely a product of the community in which it thrives.

Meanwhile Jimbo Fisher just smiles and says Awwww Shucks as "the prominent student athlete" wags him. And the lamestream sports medie still have him in their Heisman top five.

 

[Husky68]

I was responding to another reply that addressed past concern over Calhoun's program at a point in time. I am/was one of those people. There just seemed to be a rash of events that happened in Calhoun's later years that made me uneasy about the effects it would have on UCONN's reputation (which is what I ultimately care most about). Just because they weren't swept under the rug doesn't make me any less uneasy about them.

It should. If you are not more uneasy when things get swept under the rug, that's not good. You take a chance on Caron and Miles and face up to when one doesn't work out. AJ and Marcus are dumb enough to get involved in selling a stolen laptop you give them what a regular student would get. Wolf got more than enough for his dumbness. Pretty ok with most UConn handling and made me less uneasy; not sure about Gordon and McCombs re slapping girls and saw as more than what Wolf did but they were called out. Dyson and Wiggins with the weed event, they got their butts in ringer. Cody got the boot. Overall think UConn isn't thug U and addresses events as they come, maybe not perfect but enough.

 

[Ha Who]

Did you see Coach Slime's press conference? He made Coach Cal look like a saint

 

[CTBasketball]

It should. If you are not more uneasy when things get swept under the rug, that's not good. You take a chance on Caron and Miles and face up to when one doesn't work out. AJ and Marcus are dumb enough to get involved in selling a stolen laptop you give them what a regular student would get. Wolf got more than enough for his dumbness. Pretty ok with most UConn handling and made me less uneasy; not sure about Gordon and McCombs re slapping girls and saw as more than what Wolf did but they were called out. Dyson and Wiggins with the weed event, they got their butts in ringer. Cody got the boot. Overall think UConn isn't thug U and addresses events as they come, maybe not perfect but enough.

UConn basketball's 10 year criminal history is equivalent to around 2-3 days at an SEC or low-grade ACC school like FSU or Miami.

 

[Sea Goat]

I wonder what sanctions Emmert will impose...

I'm not putting this in the same category of the PSU debacle, but it should warrant some scrutiny by Emmert and his merry pranksters.
Don't you think? Hell, Geno got written up for a 2 minute phone call to Mo'ne Davis. Doesn't this deserve a little look-see by the NCAA?