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NCAA strikes a much needed blow against injustice, SEMOST style
“The NCAA hasn’t busted a single big-time men’s basketball program in nearly two years. It hasn’t nailed a major football program in nearly 15 months. It’s the longest stretch of compliance for the once iron-fisted organization in 46 years and the second longest ever according to an analysis of the NCAA’s major infractions database.” - [...]
Continue reading...Report: John Wall to Kentucky [Update 10:10am]
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Thank God the circus is over. Slam magazine is reporting that John Wall will sign a letter of intent to play basketball for John Calipari at the University of Kentucky. Link to ACCNow Considered the best point guard prospect in the country, Wall went to three different high schools in five years in the Triangle. He exploded onto [...]
Continue reading...Calipari to Kentucky
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
When a school is committed to winning, they will do what it takes to hire the right coach. When a school has competent leadership, they are prepared to execute their job responsibilities at all times. When a school is competently run – like Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia and others – the hiring of a coach doesn’t take a [...]
Continue reading...Pitino publicly spurns Sendek
Sunday, March 29, 2009
As a follow-up to some of our comments from our most recent Carousel entry I’m not naming a coach and its not my business, but I’ll stick my two cents in, ok? For me, last time around – Billy Gillispie is a terrific coach – I would have immediately hired either John Pelphrey or Travis Ford last [...]
Continue reading...The Coaching Carousel (6:50pm Friday Update)
Friday, March 27, 2009
Friday Update: Billy Gillispie is officially out at UK. Press conference was at 4:30 Fox Florida is reporting that Billy Donovan is going to Kentucky, but Donovan has issued a statement that he is happy at Florida. Fox Florida is out on quite a ledge! They better be sure that they have their story [...]
Continue reading...Barnes Says No to Kentucky, Gets Raise
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Rick Barnes passed on the Kentucky job in the short amount of time between Bill Donovan’s rejection and the Wildcats’ hiring of Billy Gillispie. (What it must be like to have a prepared and nimble Athletics Director?) It now becomes public that Texas didn’t just expect the loyalty based on the raise Barnes ‘earned’ last [...]
Continue reading...Kentucky Gets First Rejection
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Based on the standard the media last year during the NC State Coaching search, Kentucky has now been turned down by its first ‘candidate’ for its open coaching position. Pitino Says No Pitino said Monday that while he enjoyed his eight years with the Wildcats, he’s happy coaching Louisville and wouldn’t consider returning to the school he [...]
Continue reading...Tubby Smith to leave Kentucky for Minnesota
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Tubby Smith will leave Kentucky to take over the head coaching job at Minnesota, multiple sources told ESPN.com’s Andy Katz. Let the coaching circus begin…
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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