As July leads into August, here are some tasty bits of knowledge for the summer heat…
- Richmond’s top player Dan Geriot is expected to miss the 08-09 season with a knee injury. Auburn’s best player, Josh Dollard, was simply kicked off the team for not getting his sh!t together.
- Guess we know how Texas A&M-Corpus Christi made the Tourney two years ago.
- Thuggins, summertime, scofflaws. Any questions?
- It appears as if Illinois’ Jamar Smith violated the terms of his probation by drinking alcohol; he’ll learn his fate at a Sept. 17 hearing. In other news, a 21-year old ball player recently had sex with a woman.
- Memphis could be in some hot water over an improper phone call made by the FedEx CEO to one of his employees (who also happens to be the mother of the #2 rated PG in the class of 2009, Abdul Gaddy).
- Baylor???? No, really, Baylor????
- Gregg Doyel says he’ll bury the hatchet with Coach K if he brings home the gold medal next month. The most interesting part of this piece is the story about Coach K torpedoing Doyel’s book deal in 1999.
- Yes, UK Fans are insane. We mean that in a good way, of course.
- Andy Katz takes a look at the Wake Forest program one year after the untimely death of head coach Skip Prosser.
- We thought this article by Dana O’Neil about coaches working themselves too hard in light of Prosser’s heart attack was going to suck, but we really enjoyed it. Coaches whine and complain about the summer circuit, but they really love it (poor headline, ESPN).
- Jeff Goodman breaks down his top ten prospects from the summer camps in Vegas.
- Gary Parrish gives an interesting insight into how programs game the summer recruiting circuit by not hiring assistant coaches until after they’ve developed good relationships with top prospects (sidenote: why did Arizona fire Miles Simon – that guy won them a championship!). He follow that up with another article on how coaches get creative but ethically suspect in getting recruits onto campus in a legal manner.