NCAA hands Jim Calhoun three-game suspension, no postseason ban
by Andrew Porter on Feb 22, 2011 4:12 PM EST
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PrintThe NCAA ended the two-year long saga of Nate Miles' recruitment today, finding that Jim Calhoun failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance and to adequately monitor his program, and handed the Hall-of-Fame coach a three-game suspension for the start of next year's Big East schedule.
UConn's self-imposed two-year probation and two-year reductions of scholarships from 13 to 12 will both be extended. The probation will run for three years from today and the scholarship losses will continue through the 2012-13 season. There will be no postseason ban for the program.
The penalties themselves may not appear to carry too much weight, and you will certainly hear a lot of screaming from opposing fans about UConn being "slapped on the wrist," but they are incredibly embarrassing for the program and especially for Calhoun, who, with the university's backing, denied the charges against him.
We'll be back with more later.
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Wouldn't it be sweet if those
three games were Depaul, USF and either Seton Hall/Providence?
I’m just glad this thing is finally over after being dragged out for more than 2 years while we saw other sanctions be imposed on other teams (it seemed like it took 2 weeks for the NCAA to punish Bruce Pearl).
Plus with Carmelo being traded to the Knicks, it doesn’t seem that ESPN will be going crazy about this story.
All in all, I’ll take this punishment because it could have potentially been much worse and I don’t expect UConn to appeal this decision.
"The worst thing you can do, at least this is what my friends tell me, is to come after me," Calhoun said. "I'm usually better at coming out of the corner than I am up on the pedestal. I haven't been on many pedestals, by the way. I'm a natural underdog, I guess -- sometimes for no apparent reason. And if I can't be the underdog, I'll make myself the underdog, somehow or other."
I still wonder
If Calhoun had come right out and taken some responsibility for things (not blame, mind you, just responsibility as the “boss” of the program.), they wouldn’t have suspended him. Whenever you go out of your way to protect one entity in the face of some sort of accusation, the penalty always seems to come in heavier than if you had just gotten in front of it to begin with. I like to call it the Roger Clemens Effect.
I assume this suspension will happen with the next three games, right?
If so, I have a problem with that. It’s a joke it took so long for this to come down, but to me it’s stupid to handout a suspension midseason for something that didn’t happen this season.
I don’t remember exactly, but didn’t Bruce Pearl’s suspension come down BEFORE the season started? If not, at least it came out BEFORE the SEC schedule started, which were the games he was suspended for. I mean, what if this decision took another three weeks to happen, would Calhoun have to sit out tourney games? I really don’t like this happening so late in the season with so much on the line.
Maybe they won’t make him serve until next year. To me, that’s the right thing to do at this point in the season.
The suspension is for the first three games
of next year’s Big East season.
So it’d be nice to not open with someone like Pitt for once.
by Andrew Porter on Feb 22, 2011 5:04 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, thank you
I just saw it again in the article. It would be nice if I finished reading the first paragraph. And I read everything else too.
by The Columnist on Feb 22, 2011 6:04 PM EST up reply actions
To quote my own tweet
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6146656 Look at the photo ESPN used! Loser staffer over-texts loser recruit, so now Cal is Emperor f’ing Palpatine
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