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Hewitt went to D-Rad and told him that he was going to St. Johns, thus getting GT out of any buy-out scenario. But the unprepared D-Rad begged Hewitt to stay, only to fire him a year later with GT shouldering their full buy-out liability. The damage to GT in the wake of that gaff was colossal.

A shining moment for D-Rad. Thanks for reminding us...

I am far more worried about how the SEC programs have been recruiting against us. Hayes has been a thorn on the recruiting trail regardless of where he has been. He still has only 13 ships to give and is at a mid-major program with limited exposure. Could he build the next Butler under...

Hayes has proven himself to be an excellent assistant coach and recruiter, especially locally. And he could be an excellent head coach. But there is way more to being a successful head coach than what he has been called on to do as an assistant. And there have been many (most, actually)...

My first thought is that it is better for us that he be a head coach at a local mid-major than he be a lead recruiter at a high major.

K was winning at a high level before turning to the one-and-dones. Did he project to really need them or did he, as you say, follow his nose to the best players and subordinate consideration of all the other garbage that went along with them (for instance, having photos Zion Williamson's house...

The thinking behind the one-and-done philosophy is pretty simple to figure: Getting the biggest, most athletic and skilled players available means that they can score at a good percentage even when guarded. Having players that can go out and get buckets even when they are well guarded would...

Duke Was a legit National Championship Contender this season. They had tremendous individual talent across the board and had great size and strength across their lineup. But they were one on one players. They had great individual talent, enough to win the whole deal, but they did not play...

There are soooo many Looooong TV timeouts and then there are the long delays for offcials to review plays, players get a lot of rest during televised games. They really don't need a bow in those circumstances.

Carolina looks very strong to me.

Different eras. Different market dynamics and a changed economy in general. Those players don't look twice at GT in today's market.

Umm, the post was supposed to be tongue in cheek for humor purposes. But there are two distinct competitive models being employed by NCAA members right now. There is the semi-pro model embodied clearly by the SEC (and similar big-budget programs) and then there is the traditional...

Umm, the post was supposed to be tongue in cheek for humor purposes. But there are two distinct competitive models being employed by NCAA members right now. There is the semi-pro model embodied clearly by the SEC (and similar big-budget programs) and then there is the traditional...

Com' on Red! Zion Williamson and all the other top 5, one-and-done players they have landed over Kentucky, the SEC and Arizona was for the education and to be around upper-middle class white folk. The lovely family home for the Mom had nothing to do with it!

Through perseverance, Alvarado got his foot in the door. Once there, he established himself as an NBA player by doing the same things he did in college, by simply making things happen through force of competitive will. He just needed a chance to show that his attributes translated from the...

No one here dislikes K more than I do, but I will be dadgum if I want to see an ACC team go down to an SEC team in the NCAAT. There is a time and place to pull against a hated conference rival, but the NCAAT is not one of them.

The findings include the dreaded "failure to cooperate" and to obstruct the investigation. That usually doesn't go well for the school, but we'll see. Maybe the NCAA will go the route of slaps on the wrist for violations to protect revenue flows. That seems likely to me, for them to make a...

I don't think a team or conference can "over perform." That is like saying when weather forecasts are wrong, that the weather made a mistake. Unexpected outcomes are simply due to inaccurate forecasting models. The error is at the locus of the prediction, not the event's outcome.

Expanded conference schedules shrink the number of pre-season games and, therefore, increase the relative importance of the pre-season slate even though it is fewer games (fewer data points) and earlier in the season. This serves to skew the power rankings due to greater error based on fewer...

The ACC got the appropriate number of teams into the NCAAT. The selection is based on transparent objective criteria. There is no bias. And you have correctly identified how many of the ACC teams ruined there chances to get a bid. But the ACC was not weak this year. While we didn't get as...