Debbie Yow is a nightmare according to every person ever associated with Maryland. 

Fortunately for UK once word got around that they'd let you get away with any old thing when Coach Cal needed a new place to pull his **** he knew right where to go. I wonder how many NCAA Tourney games the Cats will end up expunging...

Jim Ferry (Long Island Univ.) has accepted the job at Manhattan.

Rob Senderoff is the new coach at Kent State. He's been an assistant there.  Previously, he was an assistant to Kelvin Sampson at Indiana. For his help in covering up recruiting violations, the NCAA barred Senderoff from recruiting for 36 months.  His suspension ends May 25.

The situations between UK and NCSU aren't even remotely comparable.  Billy G may have been a backup plan, but the guy pretty much resurrected the aTm program from like an eternity of sucktitude.  He may not have worked out at Kentucky, but it wasn't like he was a major college flop already, i.e., Gottfried.  (Not saying that going to five tourneys in ten years is a "flop," per se, but Alabama fans seem to genuinely hate the man.) 

Posted by jslotman on 4/6/2011 3:27:00 PM (view original):
Debbie Yow is a nightmare according to every person ever associated with Maryland. 

To describe Chairman Yao as a nightmare is akin to describing Mt Everest as a small hill.

The volume of the disastrous things she did at Maryland was truly astounding.  And its not just Maryland.  She was a disaster at St. Louis before she came to Maryland.  Her press conference to announce Gottfried was just another in a long, long, long, long, long line of destructive behaviors she's engaged in because she's fundamentally a tremendously selfish and self-centered person.  She's consistently worked behind the scenes to undermine key coaches in revenue sports everywhere she's been (and its already started with Tom O'Brien at NC State - so good luck with that) while simultaneously attempting to control the media's perception by leaking damaging stories about her own coaches.  Its really mind-numbing.  Calling her a narcissistic sociopath is understating her issues by a wide margin.  The only saving grace is that she's completely inept and routinely overestimates her own influence, which tends to limit the damage she can do to only "severe" instead of nuclear-fallout grade.

Oh, and since she's left Maryland, its come to light that she was engaging in some extremely "creative" accounting practices which have put our athletic department in a tough spot budget-wise.

But other than that...she's awesome.

The day she left MD for NC State was is the 2nd best day in my life as a MD fan - ranking only slightly behind our Natty win in 2002 and well ahead of our ACCT title, our ACC football championship and Orange Bowl run, our first Final Four in 2001, etc, etc, etc.

The Gottfried hire was actually eerily similar to the Wolfbait's last basketball hire - Sidney "Grimace" Lowe in 2005.  In both cases NC State drastically overestimated the level of interest in their head coaching job, got turned down by numerous candidates from big and small programs, and after weeks of being the laughingstock of pretty much all of college basketball, put on the coaching version of beer goggles and hired the only friendly face left in the bar at 2AM.

Between Gottfried's consistently declining performance at 'Bama and his off-the-court activities with young blond co-eds, he's fairly toxic.  I'm not saying he doesn't deserve a 2nd chance because we all do.  The problem he's going to have is that he's handcuffed to Chairman Yao.

Fresno State has selected Rodney Terry as their new coach. A 9-year assistant at Texas, he's considered a terrific recruiter.

Kennesaw State may be vacant for awhile. They hired a new A.D. yesterday....Vaughn Williams, the assistant A.D. at UConn

Long Island Univ. , who lost their coach to Manhattan yesterday, has an interesting history. Their legendary coach Clair Bee invented the 1-3-1 defense and the 24-second shot clock. He was also the author of the Chip Hilton series of sports fiction. As a kid, I read all those books.

In 1936, Long Island was undefeated and considered the top team in the country.  The entire team was invited to the Olympic Trials.  Several team members were Jewish and Hitler's Germany was hosting the games in Berlin.  Clair Bee held a team meeting in his office.  Go to the Trials or not??  The team agreed that, if even one player objected, the entire team would boycott the trials. Noone released the final tally but the team stayed home.

LIU also was involved in a point shaving scandal with CCNY back in the 50's.  That shutdown their entire Athletic Department for years.

And why is Long Island University located in Brooklyn?

Posted by Iguana1 on 4/7/2011 1:16:00 PM (view original):
LIU also was involved in a point shaving scandal with CCNY back in the 50's.  That shutdown their entire Athletic Department for years.

And why is Long Island University located in Brooklyn?

The incident happened at a 1949 tournament in New York. There were 6 schools involved and a total of 33 players.  Five from Kentucky were implicated but some were never charged. .  Adolph Rupp vowed to never  take his 'country boys', most of which grew up in the dirt-poor Appalachian region of Kentucky.  to New York again....and he never did.

Due to NCAA punishment, Kentucky wasn't allowed to have a team in 1952-53.  In 1954, they were undefeated and ranked #1. Four of the boys had graduated the previous year but had only played 3 years of ball. The NCAA ruled them ineligible for the tournament and Rupp refused to play. 

Two Kentucky players, Alex Groza and Ralph Beard,  were permanently kicked out of the NBA.  Until Lebron James broke the record in 2009,   Groza held the all-time record for points average among players in a play-off series (4-game span).  He's the brother of football Hall-of-Famer Lou Groza

LIU also accepted high school legend and convicted felon Richie Parker into their program in the late 90's.  He actually ended up being the second best player on their team when LIU made the tournament during his tenure there. 

And to answer the question as to why LIU is in Brooklyn, geographically, isn't Brooklyn part of Long Island, as is Queens?  That would be my relatively ignorant explanation.  LIU also has campuses on the more traditional parts of Long Island as well. 

At the start of every Maryland basketball game, the entire student section chants, "Hey!  Yow Sucks!"

okay, its hey you suck

but seriously folks Brookly - along with Queens, Nassau and Suffolk are the counties that comprise Long Island.....long ago.....like turn of the century.....Brooklyn was a separate city before it was incorporated into NYC