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Door?

(for you old schoolers)

 

I remember every second of that glorious day. The door, the reporter firing up a heater on camera ....

 

I don't buy it. Second hand "reliable sources" on a message board? Coaches don't pass out the money. If someone at a collective is dipping into the funds, that's embezzlement, but it isn't an NCAA problem. If it is something coaches promised which didn't happen, that could be a problem, but again, the money should not move through the coach's hands. I'll need a lot more detail than that.

If there is any truth to it at all there should be a thorough housecleaning.

 

When’s the last time somebody in the city of Memphis was three days in arrears on promised money without gunfire involved? That alone makes me doubt it.

 

Oh, it got worse. And it's gonna get worser.

Against a backdrop of staff upheaval within the men’s basketball program, a University of Memphis official acknowledged the existence of an anonymous letter alleging widespread potential rules violations in the program and said the letter has been passed along to the NCAA.

“The University of Memphis is aware of the anonymous letter and it has been turned over to the NCAA,” university spokeswoman Michele Ehrhart said in an email to Sports Illustrated on Wednesday. “That is all we can say on the matter.” ...

The letter alleges Hardaway’s personal involvement in what could be major violations in the recruitment of a player who came to Memphis and a second prospect who did not enroll at the school. The letter claims those violations occurred in 2020 and ’22. It also alleges academic violations occurred in the ’23–24 school year. The allegations in the letter have not been independently substantiated.​

Reporting by Pat Forde: Memphis Acknowledges Letter Alleging Widespread Potential NCAA Violations in Men’s Basketball Program

 

Seems like there's always been an air of inferiority around Memphis athletics. It's the island of mid-majordom in a sea of SEC. Perhaps that's why they operate so close to the line.

 

Who could have predicted the guy who blatantly cheated at his high school job across town would blatantly cheat at a college known for blatantly cheating?

 

Seems they regularly cross that line. The basketball program, as others have pointed out, has been rotten to the core for 40 years.

In re: Hardaway, I suspect there has to be at least one former NBA star-turned-college-head coach who managed to succeed in coaching, but offhand, I can’t think of a recent example. Who am I missing?

 

Beats me, but for every one of them there's four or five Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, or Chris Mullin types.

 

Rick Stansbury ... good God.

 

Mike Davis is going to be the head coach of Memphis by the end of the season, isn't he? LMAO.