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Originally Posted by Bucklion
There's going to be some REALLY [censored]ed off alumni, because if what his lawyer says about recruiting is true, they're in for at least 2-3 really tough years...right as they hit the Big Time by moving into the Big East (anyone think they could have made that move happen without Huggins?)
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Agreed Bucklion - I bet the ride home tonight is going to be pretty lively on WLW and the like media. There is a deep divide on show -- alumini/boosters of the team and the elite/academia camp (which is definitely in the minority). Without Huggins it would likely have taken the football program even longer to develop (there is synergy in that as Huggins really raised the profile of UC as a school for athletics).
EDIT: Ride home had the UC Press Conference covering these issues. Bob Huggins not there, UC Trustees, AD and President all present, stating that "htey were not the ones to leak the private communications between the University and Coach Huggins." What is this all about? Think "UC 21" which is a long-range plan to improve academic standing of UC making it into a premier urban research university. As part of that all academic programs asked to ensure that their scholar athletes are truly students, then athletes. That athletic programs - including Basketball - ensure their players are great abassadors for the University and, "we want all our players to be alumni one day." The improvement in academic rigor is implied to be something with which Huggins would not work. UC Trustees position is that Huggins is the one that balked, not they. Trustees position is that the leak came from the lawyer or Huggins side not theirs.
Sounds very much like a re-drawing of the comapct reached in May "It was part of a continuing series of private negoatiations between the Trustees and Coach Huggins."
We can now officially sit back and watch the fur fly. Sport-casters questions sounding pretty pointed at this time "Do you think was fair", "Was this the right time to do this."
If anyone has more up-to-date stuff it would interesting to hear it.