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[QUOTE="knicksin7, post: 5328419, member: 13434"]
Think you're absolutely right that this type of thing is dealt with at private school now.  I also think players now - perhaps it's the money, perhaps it's social media - just seem so much more professional.  Some of that professionalism is frankly too much in my view, but it's there.  (which is why Bouknight is such an annoying situation - the guy had every single thing going his way - prep schools, handlers, etc, etc, and still manages to be a knucklehead).  The stories of Ron Artest drinking 40s at the halftime of Bulls games just don't exist anymore.  The days of kids just being from the hood and having ball as the only way out - seems also lessened.  Lots of players are now sons of former college and NBA pros, and grow up in affluent areas.  I guess it must be AAU camps from when they are 8, nonstop cameras on them.  So it's difficult to compare periods IMO.  But yeah, Calhoun definitely would go anywhere to find talent (90% of the time justified):  Doug Wren, Doug Wiggins, Marcus Williams, Nate Miles, Caron, AJ, Jerome Dyson, KEA, , Stanley etc - all had significant off-court issues either previous or at UCONN
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