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Message: [QUOTE="Palatine, post: 2358764, member: 974"] Not in terms of wrong doing by him but sort of guilt by association. [URL="https://sports.yahoo.com/college-basketballs-massive-scandal-will-completely-change-coaching-market-043603699.html"]How college basketball's massive scandal will completely change coaching market[/URL] [I]Take, for example, Emanuel “Book” Richardson, the Arizona assistant coach who was among those arrested on federal corruption charges. Richardson got his entrée into high-major college basketball coaching thanks largely to his ties to a major AAU outfit. When Sean Miller hired him at Nike-funded Xavier in 2007, Richardson was director of basketball for the Nike-funded New York Gauchos. With the Gauchos he was, according to the New York Daily News, the “point man” for college coaches recruiting future Connecticut star Kemba Walker and other Gauchos standouts. According to the Daily News, this was Richardson’s self-described best asset for the Xavier job: “I bring them someone that can get players.” After two years at Xavier, Richardson then upgraded alongside with Miller to Nike-funded Arizona.[/I] [/QUOTE]