define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); jr inman – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:47:05 +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 Myron Strong Dismissed By UTEP, Leaves Behind Flaming Bridges http://rushthecourt.net/2010/08/13/myron-strong-dismissed-by-utep-leaves-flaming-bridges-behind/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/08/13/myron-strong-dismissed-by-utep-leaves-flaming-bridges-behind/#respond Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:24:21 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=23539

As if things weren’t already hot enough in Texas this summer, something boiled over at UTEP yesterday as rising senior guard Myron Strong was dismissed from the basketball team by head coach Tim Floyd for, in Strong’s words, “violating dorm rules.”  When Strong communicated with the UTEP blog Miner Rush later on Thursday, though, he mentioned something else that might have had something to do with it:

The coaching in college isn’t fair to me. You know the coaches are gonna bring in who they want to bring in.  I only failed one drug test at UTEP. [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2010/08/13/myron-strong-dismissed-by-utep-leaves-flaming-bridges-behind/feed/ 0 JR Inman’s Interesting Hello From Japan… http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/11/jr-inmans-interesting-hello-from-japan/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/11/jr-inmans-interesting-hello-from-japan/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:48:20 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=15364

In the wake of Jerry Wainwright’s firing at DePaul, the Big East hot seat formally shifts to Rutgers University and the Scarlet Knights’ head man, Fred Hill.  Hill is in his fourth year at the school, and he is noted for his fiery personality and the occasional ability to get a hotshot recruit to stay close to home (see: Mike Rosario from Jersey City).  He isn’t particularly known for winning, however, as his RU teams have gone 41-66 (.383) overall and a horrid 8-47 (.145) in the very difficult Big East Conference over that period.  With recent news [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/11/jr-inmans-interesting-hello-from-japan/feed/ 2