Nate Miles

[xufan02]

I'm happy this kid didn't end up at Xavier. He once was a Xavier verbal back in 2005. Trouble just seems to follow him.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3609540

[Juice]

Why doesnt any media outlet talk about how big of a slimeball Jim Calhoun is?

The guy just recruits trouble.

[GoMuskies]

Remember the article from the Toledo Blade talking about how Miles was doing a disservice to himself by verballing to Xavier so early? This seems like a kid who could use some time with Sr. Rose.

[Mrs. Garrett]

Why doesnt any media outlet talk about how big of a slimeball Jim Calhoun is?

The guy just recruits trouble.

Really? I can think of more good guys coming out of UConn than trouble makers. Maybe that's because I'm in Chicago and removed from east coast news, but I think more about the quality guys like Ray Allen and Emeka Okafor coming out of his program.

[Juice]

- Marcus Williams who stole computers from the school.
- Marcus Cox for weed possession
- Thaddeus Ferguson and AJ Price, also both with the computer thing
- Ben Gordon, third degree assault and disorderly conduct

Add Nate Miles

[Mrs. Garrett]

- Marcus Williams who stole computers from the school.
- Marcus Cox for weed possession
- Thaddeus Ferguson and AJ Price, also both with the computer thing
- Ben Gordon, third degree assault and disorderly conduct

Add Nate Miles

We've had a handful of player at Xavier get into trouble, I mean Drew just got busted for pot possession right after the season ended. Should we now say Sean goes after low quality guys. No way, I don't even think it's a big deal that he had the weed.

I mean Calhoun's been there for years, you come up with this tiny list, and suddenly he's a slimeball.

[Juice]

We've had a handful of player at Xavier get into trouble, I mean Drew just got busted for pot possession right after the season ended. Should we now say Sean goes after low quality guys. No way, I don't even think it's a big deal that he had the weed.

I mean Calhoun's been there for years, you come up with this tiny list, and suddenly he's a slimeball.

I dont disagree that he has graduated some good, all around guys on and off the court. But there is a more recent trend that his players are getting in trouble. He also had to suspend two guys last year.

It is like the Joe Paterno situation. I think they are recruiting troubled talent to keep up with some of the hot, young coaches.

[wkrq59]

I believe almost every program in the country, even the hallowed best, occasionally runs into a cyclical stretch where a few of the kids --and most are teenagers when signed--get themselves in trouble academically or with the law for a number of mistakes.
Many of the so-called "maverick" programs have these problems almost every single year, every recruiting class. Hugs once told a player he was the latest member of the "MFer Hall of Fame and pointed to a group of pictures of former players on his office wall.
I think Jim Calhoun is no more a scumbag than any of the other Hall of Fame or highly regarded coaches who are his contemporaries.
Ponder this. Every coach who recruits --those who don't are soon unemployed-- deals with older children ages 14-19 who are beset by raging hormones, new experiences they're seldom prepared for, teachers and coaches who cater to their every whim and eliminate most of the academic and personal challenges most other kids their age face and deal with.
Many times these youngsters enter a world that expects them to act as adults, a world with which they are to say the least unfamiliar. Often they have been relieved of the responsibilities of adulthood by their parents, teachers and coaches and the rude awakening ensues and is even more complicated by an AAU system which rewards them with goods for services and turns their springs and summers into auditions for playing jobs in collegiate basketball's multi-million dollar world.
The college coach today must be a combination of expert in his field of coaching, blessed with a competent and better than average staff which he has hired, psychiatrist, psychologist, father figure, substitute parent, moral guider and person responsible for the developing man-child 24-7 for the next three or four years after his signing. One and done not included.
Oh, and the coach MUST win or constantly have his resume updated and be looking for a job.
For this and the indiscretions of his men-children he gets to be called a scumbag. And after all, he knew the pitfalls of his profession of he would not be involved in it. Besides, he's well-compensated if not over-paid.
Saying the Miles and others like him of the world can happen to anybody is not too far from an absolute truth. I believe most college presidents prefer that the incidents be kept to an absolute minimum and that the youngsters who become young men receive their degrees in as high a percentage as humanly possible.
Few coaches or schools are immune from the pitfalls. In other words, it can happen to anyone of them.:cool: