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Message: [QUOTE="JellyBean, post: 2777224, member: 1997"] Great summary. Like I said in one of the threads about this situation, it is fishy. To fired a guy for being a bad coach and having a losing record. I get that and have no problem with that. It is the nature of the coaching profession. What I don't like is trying to drag a man's good character in the mud in order to avoid paying him what is owed to him. When Coach Calhoun broke rules, the University pretended like all was well. We were winning and that is all that mattered. The university stood strong with Calhoun even after the NCAA placed the dreaded "Failure To Create An Atmosphere of Compliance" tag on UConn. Kevin Ollie gets tossed to the side without so much as a meeting with the university president in order to discuss the allegations. And what are the allegations? From statements from Miller: [LIST] [*]Ollie set up a call between Ray Allen and a recruit on his assistant’s phone. This is technically a no-no because Allen, who played at UConn, is not considered a former player by the NCAA. According to them, he’s a booster, and boosters can’t talk to recruits. [*]While “in street clothes on his way to lunch,” Ollie stopped and shot some hoops with recruit James Akinjo during his official visit last September. Akinjo’s aunt filmed it and later deleted it from Twitter when the Courant covered it. This was a violation that UConn [I]self-reported[/I] to the NCAA because their compliance team found that Akinjo was still in high school and hadn’t been medically cleared for college sports. [*]Miller believes that Danny Griffin only got his non-coaching staff position because he’s buddies with Ollie (welcome to college basketball....and every other industry). [*]Ollie’s other buddy, Derreck Hamilton, held workouts for UConn players, not recruits, both on-campus and, during the summer, in Atlanta. [/LIST] That’s it. Ollie’s buddy on staff called recruits two times when he shouldn’t have; his other buddy ran a few shootarounds. UConn’s most famous men’s basketball alum can’t talk to potential players because... he’s UConn’s most famous men’s basketball alum. And Ollie shot a basketball at a hoop with a person he wanted to recruit—again, Akinjo was shooting a basketball with a 45-year-old man, who was on his way to lunch, not playing full-court pickup. In terms of what UConn is citing from the NCAA investigation to use in its justification for Ollie’s firing, this is all the school is using to bolster its “just cause” claim. The school ain't even trying to use the claim that Miller made[COLOR=#000014] to NCAA investigators[/COLOR] about the $30,000 in moving and living expenses so that a recruits mother might be closer to her son during his playing days, but UConn is not pursuing that claim in its case because as far as the upcoming legal case goes, it has to be able prove all these things happened. Something just ain't right about this whole case. [/QUOTE]

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