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UConn recruiting violations and APR issues

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Steve19

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UConn committed a number of NCAA violations in the recruitment of Nate Miles, a 6-foot-7 player whom coach Jim Calhoun expected to be his next perimeter star, according to a story by Yahoo! Sports.

The report alleges that the UConn coaching staff, including Calhoun, made numerous improper phone calls to Miles as well as his inner circle.
According to Yahoo, before Miles came to Storrs, Josh Nochimson, a former UConn team manager turned sports agent, provided lodging, transportation, restaurant meals and representation to Miles during UConn's recruitment of the player.

Yahoo writes: "The UConn basketball staff was in constant contact with Nochimson during a nearly two-year period up to and after Miles' recruitment. Five different UConn coaches traded at least 1,565 phone and text communications with Nochimson, including 16 from head coach Jim Calhoun."

After being expelled from UConn in 2008 for violating a reastraining order, Miles transferred to the College of Southern Idaho.

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Nochimson qualifies as a UConn booster and an agent, so this could lead to some serious penalties for UConn.

During a player's junior year, only 1 phone call per month is permitted by the University, but Miles was receiving calls on almost a daily basis, sometimes with mutliple calls/text messages per day.

These 'agents' act as recruiting tools for the University, and in return they get rewarded with representing a player when he turns pro - it's a sleazy aspect of college hoops.
 
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Apr 4, 10:44 PM EDT
Connecticut's Jim Calhoun to contemplate future

DETROIT (AP) -- Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun has always said he would not make any decisions about his future after a tough defeat.

But the disappointment of losing to the underdog Spartans, coupled with frustration over allegations that Calhoun's program violated NCAA recruiting rules, bubbled over after the Huskies' 82-73 loss to Michigan State in the national semifinals on Saturday night.

"Those kind of things, that's why Dean Smith told me at 67 he got out," Calhoun said, referring to North Carolina's retired Hall of Fame coach. "It wasn't basketball. It was the other things.

"I love the kids, love the game. I don't plan to go anyplace. But I'm going to give a lot of reflection, maybe more reflection than normal, because of that," the 66-year Hall of Famer said.

Yahoo! Sports recently reported former Connecticut recruit Nate Miles was given lodging, transportation, meals and representation by sports agent Josh Nochimson, and that a UConn assistant coach knew about the relationship between the player and the agent.

The story cited interviews and documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws, and other sources.

Calhoun said the NCAA has asked him not to speak about the facts of the case and when he said he had a "gag order," he was reprimanded.

"I probably shouldn't be expressing it, but that's just who I am," Calhoun said, answering why he would think about leaving despite his love of the game and his players. "I couldn't be more disappointed in people who just jump on and make two people all of a sudden become the expert on who Jim Calhoun is.

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BuckeyeTillIDie;1444122; said:
Wah

I broke NCAA rules now I want to run away from the program before all hell breaks loose

Wah
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I think this is the issue too. He was linked in telephone calls to the one recruit in question. Looks like all kinds of stuff is about to crawl out of the woodwork.

Perhaps he is trying to stop an NCAA investigation before it really begins?

I was very disappointed in his implied derogatory remarks about the Big Ten last night, "We beat Michigan, we beat Wisconsin by twenty, and Purdue by double digits, we watched film, we saw the teams they played. That was a different team out there tonight..."

Yeah, with all due respect, lots of us thought that the Spartans would give your Big East top teams fits. So, learn to respect your betters, as my father used to say.

Now, shouldn't the press be digging in to find out if wanting to retire in glory caused him to cut corners on ethics? Stay tuned.
 
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I wonder how willingly this kid gave up his scholly?

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/34697/player-has-to-give-up-scholly-for-drummond

ESPN.com has learned through a source that Connecticut Huskies coach Jim Calhoun, interim athletic director Paul Pendergast, UConn president Susan Herbst and at least one member of the compliance department met Friday to ensure that it was possible to add another scholarship player -- a big one -- even though the program is officially out of scholarships.

Once it was determined that one player on the current roster -- a source told ESPN.com it is redshirt freshman Michael Bradley -- could possibly qualify for financial aid days before the fall semester begins this week, a call was made to Andre Drummond's camp that a possible scholarship was available.
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You stay classy Calhoun.
 
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-uconn-boatright

The NCAA has cleared Boatright to play, but said Saturday he and his mother had accepted more than $8,000 in impermissible benefits from at least two people.
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Attorney Scott Tompsett issued a statement Sunday calling the NCAA’s news release false and misleading. He said the people providing the benefits were friends of the Boatright family and had “no expectation of repayment or reciprocation.”
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Gee, they must have some really nice friends.

The NCAA said it allowed Boatright to return to action after determining he has lived up to an agreement that gave him limited immunity for cooperating in the investigation, and is “likely the least culpable” of those involved in the violations.
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So, tell us about somebody else's violations and we'll forgive YOUR violations, but tell us about your own and we'll spank you. Lovely.
 
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