altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
That sounds like a personal injury firm in Bloomington adjacent to the Night Moves club that someone noted would be a perfect fit for Pitino.
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Kansas was hit with three years of probation on his way out the door 1988.
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Fair enough. As you can tell I don't follow the NBA too closely
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
lol. He was apparently a very successful slow learner. I always thought he was a perfect fit in the freewheeling mid-'70s ABA. I recall as a kid seeing an article in SI about him coaching the Denver Nuggets, sitting on the bench in overalls (similar to photo below) chewing on a piece of hay.
Larry Brown...Larry Brown.?......Is that the guy with the wild hair from "Back To The Future?
"The best way to get run out of town is to make it look like you're leading the parade."
Ransom Stoddard
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- Bloomington, IL
Arkansas always gets my vote of southern states to slam. I blame Arkansas for everything crappy about Missouri.
Ransom Stoddard
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- Bloomington, IL
Kansas Hit With 3-Year Probation : NCAA Punishes Jayhawks for Recruiting Violations
Kansas, the defending National Collegiate Athletic Assn. basketball champion, received a 3-year probation Tuesday for recruiting violations and will be barred from defending its NCAA title.
www.latimes.com
Scandal on his heels, his ankles, his shins. All the way up to his neck.
dgcrow
- Kelso, WA
Then you heard about the University of Missouri basketball player who moved to Arkansas, thereby raising the average IQ of both states?
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
I once spent a Saturday night in 2003 on campus in Fayetteville at an inn just off their quad the UofA hotel school operated. It was an old Victorian building called (I'm not making this up) Carnall Hall. The best name for a campus hotel imaginable. It was a memorable evening. Arkansas was playing at Kentucky in football, the game went seven overtimes, and Arkansas won. I spent five hours in the bar drinking and watching the game on TV with nostalgic alums in town for a visit.
So I've got a sweet spot for Arkansas. The NW corner, at least!
dgcrow
- Kelso, WA
Actually, one of my best buddies is from Arkansas. An aeronautical engineer. Funny, sharp, intelligent, now lives in Florida.
I just read the CatsPaws board and they said that Kenny Payne was interviewing for the Depaul job. They are pretty reliable.
On the one hand it's good that it's him and not OA. On the other hand Chin's job will get a lot harder recruting Chicago, right? Which once again makes it a very good thing this Illini staff doesn't just rely on recruiting Illinois.
The fact that they have Stevens as a bigger long shot than Mark Few makes the IU boards’ confidence in getting Stevens that much more hilarious.
dgcrow
- Kelso, WA
Years ago, Indiana made a run at Mark Few for their coach. Discussions didn't get anywhere. Can't imagine that he would even consider moving to Bloomington now.
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
I was honestly being tongue-in-cheek. I have friends in Alabama. Can't let folks stomp all over them.
I generally assume that you get a mixed bag of good and bad wherever you end up. Didn't mean to stir the pot quite this much.
my son who went to Ole Miss had it narrowed down to 4 schools : Ole Miss which we had seen when he was a high school soph, and then Kansas, Oklahoma & Arkansas. His junior year high school spring break, me, wifey, him and my youngest boy did the three school trip from Chicago : to KU, down to OU, and then Ark. We stayed at the Eldridge Hotel in Lawrence (nice old place that has been totally redone, then to Norman (had to settle for a Park Hyatt or similar (was fine) and then to Fayetteville to see UA and we stayed at the Carnall. Nice place. Right on Campus. Short walk to town. Nice campus town
We liked KU, but he went to HinsCentral, and there were like 15 kids he knew were going there from there. He didn't want that & I understood. We really liked OU and were okay with UA. But none compared to Ole Miss. When you are a "general college" major, it doesn't matter where you go. Yoiu go whjere it will be a good experience. That trip settled it and we did a trip back to Oxford in Sept 2010 and saw them play Vandy. The whole weekend was nice and the Grove on Sat was super. They have a on campus hotel called "The Inn at Ole Miss" that is operated by their hospitality school. Nice place The University, in total , is a great value and really nice place. For a guy, the place is LOADED with pretty girls. They have about a 3 week winter in late Jan - early Feb, and baseball games in March-April draw about 6000-8000 on the weekends. Baseball is HUGE there.
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Listening to Dakisch and Packer on way home, he threw some major shade at Scott Drew when discussing the IU coaching position. He made allegations that some very inappropriate stuff was going on there but decided to stop after saying there was slanders and slurs. He said other things are happening and have happened but said he wouldn't go any further. Now I wanna know what is going on at Baylor?
There have been rumors of shadiness going on at Baylor for a long time, but I don't know if there is anything to it
Any chance that Depaul takes a run for Chin Coleman? Have to think that his ties to Chicago are desirable for DePaul. The longer that job stays open, makes me think they want to wait to talk with Chin until after Illinois losses in the tournament. Any thoughts?
I like Chin but can't see how he would be ahead of Kenny Payne especially given the DePaul's AD background with Payne.
If I'm DePaul, I'm looking for someone who has been successful as a HC at some level. maybe way down the food chain, but successful experience as a HC somewhere. I dont think you can afford to just grab an assistant coach and hope That school needs a winner NOW. Not unlike our deal with football this year.
wow , have they ever fallen way off the radar. They were big time in the 1980's.
wow , have they ever fallen way off the radar. They were big time in the 1980's.
sacraig
- The desert
Maybe. On the other hand, Chin is selling a program that is currently standing atop the basketball world, while Payne (or whoever) would be selling a program that has effectively no fans, little TV coverage, and hasn't made an NIT since 2007, the NCAA tournament since 2004, and hasn't made a Sweet Sixteen since 1987.
In fairness, they were CBI runners up in 2019.
I guess I am just not overly concerned.
Hoopster
- Peoria, IL in a van down by the river
You mean after Illinois wins it all, right?
I heard one IU fan throw out Calbert Cheaney's name. That would be interesting, though I don't think they're really looking at him.
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