UCONN Might Have Made Mistakes? Noooooo…

Whaa? Agents and free shit are against the rules? Since when?

 After Connecticut beat Purdue to advance to the Elite Eight, Sporting News and Yahoo! Sports interviewed UCONN coach Jim Calhoun about the allegations that he cheated like a river boat gambler while recruiting Nate Miles.  Unfortunately Calhoun broke from tradition by not asking the reporters if they were “really that stupid,” and instead repeated exactly what his agent, attorney and athletic director told him to.

“Could I have made a mistake? Sure.” Calhoun said. “The (rules) manual is 508 pages. Someone could’ve made a mistake.”

Yeah! Leave the poor man alone.  How would he know that college players can’t have agents?  Or that you can’t supply them with free transportation and meals.  Or that you can’t call them an unlimited number of times during their junior year of high school.  Who’s Kelvin Sampson again?  Never mind that.  Who made all these crazy rules, anyway? And when?

Nevermind the fact that they did all this for a kid who already had a restraining order against him for beating up his girlfriend.  The fact that he got expelled for violating that restraining order is a moot point.

Here’s where Calhoun has a problem.  It’s clear to everyone outside the state of Connecticut that he’s a shitbag, but in an attempt to avoid harsh NCAA penalties he has to play stupid.  It’s hard to play stupid when you repeatedly and publicly call others out for it without looking like a shitbag all over again. 

Who knew that cheating, being a raging hard-on, and recruiting Chris Brown wannabe’s was a bad idea?

Tags: college basketball, Connecticut, Jim Calhoun, NCAA Tournament, UConn

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