FullCourt Weighs in on Ohio State Hire

[Wbbfan1]

FullCourt - Link

 

[Icebear]

In the poll on the page which is concerning the hiring of family members 89% think it should be illegal.

 

[Blueballer]

When you think of some of the chickens**t the NCAA has rules against but then allows this, all you can do is scratch your head.

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Wow!!! Straight to the point article that didn't really hold back.

 

[Fightin Choke]

Wow!!! Straight to the point article that didn't really hold back.

This discussion on RebKell predicated this article: LINK

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

An Alum could not buy my son a breakfast muffin when he played in college…a NCAA NO No!!!...yet coaches are allowed to pull this kind of you scratch mine I’ll scratch yours crap. No wonder so many see hypocrisy around every NCAA corner.

 

[DishNSwish]

This discussion on RebKell predicated this article: LINK

He could have just posted his opinion there too.

I have no problem with it when a coach can coach. This guy has men's high school and girls' AAU background and success.

 

[Wbbfan1]

If Kelsey was not his daughter would he be the most qualified candidate for the job. You can be he wouldn't be. This is not the first time McGuff has hired a family member in order to sign a recruit. I also think it wrong for Kelsey's father to accept the position as he's taking advantage of his daughter's talents and who knows what decision she would make if her decision didn't impact their families livelihood. It adds additional pressure on Kelsey that she doesn't need.

He could have just posted his opinion there too.

I have no problem with it when a coach can coach. This guy has men's high school and girls' AAU background and success.

 

[meyers7]

I also think it wrong for Kelsey's father to accept the position as he's taking advantage of his daughter's talents and who knows what decision she would make if her decision didn't impact their families livelihood. It adds additional pressure on Kelsey that she doesn't need.

It might be wrong (on a moral basis), but one has to do right for one's family. A good salary for the family, plus a scholarship for the other daughter, tough to say no to that when it's actually legal.

 

[ThisJustIn]

No wonder so many see hypocrisy around every NCAA corner.

Because, of course, it is coaches who set the NCAA's agenda....

 

[Icebear]

Because, of course, it is coaches who set the NCAA's agenda....

So true. Along with the presidents.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Count me in on thinking the family member hiring is bogus.

That said, at least in this case, he may indeed be a contributor on the staff, he probably is capable. Some other hirings - like the mother at Georgia - were just baffling.

Difficult all around, I keep coming back to Boo Williams - who certainly can't help that his sister is a college head coach - and isn't doing any thing wrong - but inherrantly gives her an advantage others don't have.

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

It might be wrong (on a moral basis), but one has to do right for one's family. A good salary for the family, plus a scholarship for the other daughter, tough to say no to that when it's actually legal.

The rest of the team will see it exactly as you described it....

 

[Purduke]

This is silly. The only thing the NCAA should be concerned with here is that the kid attends the school that they want to - nothing more. If I were the NCAA all I would do is to indicate to the athlete that because of the family considerations if the kid has to submit her LOI before her age of majority that the NCAA will accept it without the co-sponsorship of her parents. She gets to go where she wants -- simple as that. If she wants to be coached by her father who cares. That is Ohio State's problem in convincing other recruits that there won't be any preferential treatment in the coaching and player development.

But this crap happens all the time with 14 year old girls and nobody gets in a lather about it. Hey, Courtney Ekmark -- you can't enroll at a private HS because your father coaches there. You have to go to Phoenix Central for your own protection. You too Kelly Faris! I mean talk about undue influence -- a 14 year old kid still living at home vs an 18 year old with the Constitutional right to reside wherever she chooses?

 

[Kibitzer]

This is silly. The only thing the NCAA should be concerned with here is that the kid attends the school that they want to - nothing more. If I were the NCAA all I would do is to indicate to the athlete that because of the family considerations if the kid has to submit her LOI before her age of majority that the NCAA will accept it without the co-sponsorship of her parents. She gets to go where she wants -- simple as that. If she wants to be coached by her father who cares. That is Ohio State's problem in convincing other recruits that there won't be any preferential treatment in the coaching and player development.

But this crap happens all the time with 14 year old girls and nobody gets in a lather about it. Hey, Courtney Ekmark -- you can't enroll at a private HS because your father coaches there. You have to go to Phoenix Central for your own protection. You too Kelly Faris! I mean talk about undue influence -- a 14 year old kid still living at home vs an 18 year old with the Constitutional right to reside wherever she chooses?

I think Kelly's and Courtney's dads were coaching at their schools before their daughters enrolled and are (Faris) or are highly likely (Ekmark) to be coaching at the same schools after their daughters graduate(d).

Only way THE Ohio State University can parallel those situation would be to offer Coach Mitchell a guaranteed long-term (8-10 years?) contract that would assure them of retaining his expertise beyond the years his daughters are playing.

And that ain't gonna happen.