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Seems like the Bama coach doesn't have the ability to teach and develop players. The solution is to release the players that don't improve on their own, recover the scholarship for the school, then over recruit every year looking for players that need no coaching.
 
PalPa said:
Seems like the Bama coach doesn't have the ability to teach and develop players. The solution is to release the players that don't improve on their own, recover the scholarship for the school, then over recruit every year looking for players that need no coaching.
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I've never liked Curry. But she does do a good a good imitation is a Pug.
 
Curry had a fine 7 year run at Purdue. No Question.

At Texas Tech, meh. Generally successful enough, again no question, but never got the losses less than double digit (two seasons at 22-11 were her best, overall .57 percentage). Certainly not contending on the national level.

Never saw anything special about her, looks like there isn't at this point.
 
Olbermann loves to stir the pot, but I agree with the credit on this one.
 
I HATE KO but on this one (and the Michigan story) he is spot on....
 
Okay, I'll admit it. As much as he is a blowhard, on the issues, he's mostly my blowhard. I like the guy's positions and on this one, he's aces all the way. Much like on the Rice one during which, let's face it, he couldn't lose.
 
KnightBridgeAZ said:
Curry had a fine 7 year run at Purdue. No Question.

At Texas Tech, meh. Generally successful enough, again no question, but never got the losses less than double digit (two seasons at 22-11 were her best, overall .57 percentage). Certainly not contending on the national level.

Never saw anything special about her, looks like there isn't at this point.
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KnightBridgeAZ- - Curry left Purdue for TX Tech under a cloud for various violations, recruiting, coaching ethics, and left Tech suddenly for Alabama job so she's continuing her "winning ways"!
 
RSHERMVIKES said:
KnightBridgeAZ- - Curry left Purdue for TX Tech under a cloud for various violations, recruiting, coaching ethics, and left Tech suddenly for Alabama job so she's continuing her "winning ways"!
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I wouldn't know about that, but I'll point out that we (Arizona) played Texas Tech last season and apparently Curry left a real train wreck behind. That was a bad basketball team, although one of the parents we talked to (our seats are center court, but across an aisle from the visitors section) was really pleased with the new coach.
 
Wbbfan1 said:
More and More this story reminds me of K State, an Athletic Department being stubborn and won't admit they were wrong. Why.

http://www.swishappeal.com/2014/10/7/6933683/daisha-simmons-alabama-letter-of-appeal
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It's not unusual for people in a position of authority to loose sight of the overall picture. It gets to the point where they believe they are always right and refuse to listen to dissenting opinion. Then even reasonable requests are dismissed out of hand. All to protect their empire even if the threat is imaginary.
 
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More and More this story reminds me of K State, an Athletic Department being stubborn and won't admit they were wrong. Why.

http://www.swishappeal.com/2014/10/7/6933683/daisha-simmons-alabama-letter-of-appeal
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I think the reason they won't admit they are wrong has not only to do with this player and the women's basketball program. I think the AD is concerned about the fallout to other (read men's football) programs. My guess is he wants to prevent a current or future player from asking out of her/his scholarship to play at another school (for some family/health reason) and using this situation as precedent. When your focus is on the institution and not the individual you sometimes get results for the individual that are troubling.
 
The truly hilarious part of the Daisha Simmons-Kristy Curry situation and the Leticia Romero-Jeff Mittie situation is that both schools had just hired coaches that had recently left their former institutions.

So the coaches were allowed to leave, even with contracts in place (though presumably there was a buyout), to coach at another institution but the players, especially one who has graduated and was not accepted to that university's graduate program, cannot be released to play for one.

As an aside, even if the institution has good reasons for denying a transfer (hypothetically...interference from opposing coaches and improper contact), there is no way the university will win the public relations battle (especially in an era where the public recognizes that coaches come and go and the NCAA does not put the best interests of the student-athlete as its first and foremost priority).
 
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I think the reason they won't admit they are wrong has not only to do with this player and the women's basketball program. I think the AD is concerned about the fallout to other (read men's football) programs. My guess is he wants to prevent a current or future player from asking out of her/his scholarship to play at another school (for some family/health reason) and using this situation as precedent. When your focus is on the institution and not the individual you sometimes get results for the individual that are troubling.
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Yeah - but I think he could easily say ... 'as soon as you graduate we will allow you to transfer for any or no reason' and not have to worry that it would actually effect more than 1/10th or 1 percent of the men's football/basketball players and certainly none that were likely having any effect on the play of their teams.
 
UcMiami said:
Yeah - but I think he could easily say ... 'as soon as you graduate we will allow you to transfer for any or no reason' and not have to worry that it would actually effect more than 1/10th or 1 percent of the men's football/basketball players and certainly none that were likely having any effect on the play of their teams.
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Sure but he would just be asking for another headache: "So I'm a sophmore and my mother is ill and you are telling me that I can't go home for two years until I graduate?"

I think he would have been much smarter (not to mention a compassionate human being) if he and the coach called this a "special circumstance" and quietly allowed the transfer. No headlines and scathing commentary and if there were articles written they would feature a story about a coach and AD who looked out for their players. How terrible!
 
JudgeSCR said:
I think the reason they won't admit they are wrong has not only to do with this player and the women's basketball program. I think the AD is concerned about the fallout to other (read men's football) programs. My guess is he wants to prevent a current or future player from asking out of her/his scholarship to play at another school (for some family/health reason) and using this situation as precedent. When your focus is on the institution and not the individual you sometimes get results for the individual that are troubling.
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Football and men's basketball players already leave early to enter the pro draft. All they have to do is declare hardship. Using Daisha Simmons hardship as a precedent would be a joke.
 
Bama has finally conceded!
Now the NCAA needs to agree to review it again....
 
Battle's "concession" statement was such a load of wordsmithed BS.

Anyway, another win for truth, justice and the American way
 
The fact that the university's explanation went to such lengths to describe themselves as being ethical speaks volumes. And perhaps the backlash against K State helped lead to a quicker resolution this time around.
 
What an absolute crock Battles statement is. I certainly hope that young women thinking about playing at Alabama will think long and hard about how they will be treated if something goes wrong in their lives and they need to transfer for a legitimate reason. Thoughtful recruits should avoid this place and K State like the plague.
 
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