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Morning Five: 05.27.11 Edition

jstevrtc — Fri, 27 May 2011 10:25:21 +0000

Greg Paulus started for three years at Duke, played a year of quarterback at Syracuse, was an assistant coach at Navy last season, and already has landed his fourth gig. Thad Matta hired Paulus as Ohio State’s new video coordinator yesterday, which makes that Big Ten-ACC matchup that has the Blue Devils traveling to Columbus next season all the more interesting. Wonder if Coach Matta will be hitting up Greg for a little insider breakdown of Duke game film ahead of that little get-together? Props to the PROP! And by that we mean the NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight Panel. Yesterday they [...]

NCAA Closes Recruiting Loophole — Sort Of

jstevrtc — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:25:12 +0000

According to this report from CBS Sports, earlier today the NCAA passed legislation regarding a subject they’ve been talking about tackling for years, specifically that of basketball programs hiring “anyone associated with a basketball recruit for a two-year period before or after the player enrolls at the school.” Gone, therefore, are the days when a coach could entice a prized recruit to play at his program by also offering up a job as an assistant coach or administrative assistant (fill in whatever title you wish) to the recruit’s high school or AAU coach, or to a family member.

John Wall Eligibility Issues Resolved

jstevrtc — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:03:31 +0000

Kentucky fans are breathing easier tonight.

According to Lexington television station WLEX-18, the NCAA has cleared Kentucky’s insanely talented point guard (and pretty good dancer) John Wall to play, provided that a couple of conditions are met — namely, the repayment of travel expenses and the sitting of Wall for two games. The games are UK’s exhibition this Monday night against Campbellsville and the November 13th regular season opener against Morehead State. This all stems from Wall having played AAU basketball under coach Brian Clifton, who, even though he was not acting as one, was a certified [...]

SEC Commissioner Slive Questions Wall’s Eligibility

jstevrtc — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:32:46 +0000

There aren’t many things these days that could spoil the tidal wave of hope and anticipation that has consumed the entire state of Kentucky and Wildcat supporters the world over. But this is definitely one of them.

ESPN.com is reporting that issues have been raised regarding the recruitment and signing of presumptive freshman superstar John Wall. Evidently, SEC commissioner Mike Slive has confirmed to ESPN that the eligibility questions are centered around Wall’s having played AAU ball for coach Brian Clifton, who was once a certified agent. By NCAA rule, playing for an agent implies that you [...]

07.06.09 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:33:08 +0000

Hope everyone had a brilliant ID4…

Class of 2009. Evan Daniels of Scout.com wrote an interesting piece on how wishy-washy the high school class of 2009 was before finally settling on a school. Six of the top ten players – John Wall, Xavier Henry, Lance Stephenson, Renardo Sidney, DeMarcus Cousins, Derrick Favors – had what Daniels terms an ‘interesting’ recruitment. Interesting in the sense that the propect took forever to decide on a destination, had eligibility concerns, switched up commitments, or all of the above. From our view, this is a predictable byproduct of the NBA’s 1-and-done rule, which is now [...]

Are the NCAA & NBA forming an alliance to corrupt America’s youth?

nvr1983 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:38:10 +0000

Anthony Schoettle of the Indianapolis Business Journal reports on a very interesting development: the NCAA and NBA are planning on developing year-round training programs for high-school players with academies for elite players and conduct sanctioned tournaments and leagues. In addition, they are also considering training programs for coaches and officials (hello, Tim Donaghy) and finding corporate sponsors for the program (as if commercializing the sport wasn’t enough).

While we agree that youth basketball in the US is rampant with shady dealings and kids these days don’t learn fundamentals, we get the sense that these two organizations are more concerned [...]