define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Doug Martin – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:10:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Villanova Assistant Coach Doug Martin Forced to Resign — Why Was He Hired in the First Place? http://rushthecourt.net/2012/08/13/villanova-assistant-coach-doug-martin-forced-to-resign-why-was-he-hired-in-the-first-place/ http://rushthecourt.net/2012/08/13/villanova-assistant-coach-doug-martin-forced-to-resign-why-was-he-hired-in-the-first-place/#respond Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:05:44 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=73209

Christopher Johnson is an RTC columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn .

Early last week Villanova announced the hiring of assistant coach Doug Martin, who formerly served similar positions at a private Catholic high school in Virginia as well as the Team Takeover AAU program, a traditional grassroots powerhouse based out of the fertile Washington DC-area recruiting grounds. The hire was questionable on several fronts, and it brought into clearer focus Villanova’s pursuit of Josh Hart, a member of Team Takeover and a prime target on the prospect market who currently holds offers from Memphis, Cincinnati, Arizona, Rutgers and the Wildcats, among [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2012/08/13/villanova-assistant-coach-doug-martin-forced-to-resign-why-was-he-hired-in-the-first-place/feed/ 0 Morning Five: 08.13.12 Edition http://rushthecourt.net/2012/08/13/morning-five-08-13-12-edition/ http://rushthecourt.net/2012/08/13/morning-five-08-13-12-edition/#respond Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:31:28 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=73203

The buzz throughout the sport over the weekend was directly attributable to the Friday release of the latest in CBSSports.com‘s Critical Coaches series, this time squarely taking aim at the perception of the coaches responsible for the most wrongdoing within the game. In other words, who is perceived as the biggest cheater(s) in college basketball? The results at the top — Kentucky’s John Calipari (36%) and Baylor’s Scott Drew (34%) — are completely unsurprising in that fan perception in this regard probably isn’t markedly different than those of the coaches, but in reality you probably could have simply switched out [...]]]>
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