Let the firings begin

At what time does the NCAA become involved and starts looking at the “hire dad and the kid comes along” and “hire failed coach and his recruits come along” issues?

BShark

@JayHawkFanToo

Let he who is without Manning and Chalmers cast the first stone.

JayHawkFanToo

@BShark

LOL to That. I guess we could add Lafayette Norwood to that list, for those who remember that far back. The Porter hire makes KU’s hires look like the work of amateurs. At least KU got 4 years form Manning and Valentine and 3 from Chalmers and they were not shopped to the highest bidder.

BShark

@JayHawkFanToo

Got titles out of both too! Which I doubt Missouri gets…

JayHawkFanToo

@BShark

Spot on. Washington with all his highly rated recruits was still a bottom feeder in the PAC 12 and Martin, also with good players, was an also run in the same Conference. No reason to think MU will improve enough in one year to contend in the SEC and then the window of opportunity closes and in 3 years Martin leaves.

BShark

@JayHawkFanToo

Yep. SEC basketball in general appears to be on the way up.

dylans

@JayHawkFanToo said:

@BShark

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. - Marcellus to Horatio in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

At what time does the NCAA become involved and starts looking at the “hire dad and the kid comes along” and “hire failed coach and his recruits come along” issues?

They kind of did. It’s now a requirement that if a recruits parent is hired on to the staff it has to be a full assistant job. -no video coordinator, player development nonsense. They take an active recruiters roll and the spot someone who has to coach.

Shady as it may be I don’t think you should ban kids parent from working because they raised a recruit.

JayHawkFanToo

@dylans

I am not asking to ban parent for working because they raised a recruit, no one can do that, period. What I am saying is ban or at least restrict parents from peddling their kids to whoever gives the parent a job.

The Porter dad was an assistant coach for the women’s basketball team at MU where his sister is the HC and his daughter plays. The sister was better qualified to go to Washington but she did not have two talented kids. He was given a $300K per year contract at Washington by Lorenzo Romar, who I understand is the godfather to one of the kids, and the kids committed to Washington shortly after. Then, Romar is fired, dad Porter is told his contract will not be renewed so he bolts for MU to be an assistant to new Coach Martin and his kids follow him there.

The entire saga has nepotism and quid pro quo written all over it.

Crimsonorblue22

@JayHawkFanToo Preston?

JayHawkFanToo

@Crimsonorblue22

LOL , fixed. Not enough coffee or auto correct; at my age hard to tell.

wissox

I hadn’t seen this but there’s another Jayhawk coaching DI basketball. CB McGrath, whom the UNC bio calls a key reserve for KU (??? really?) was hired by UNC Wilmington. Good hire for them I guess, but I really don’t know too much about him.

mayjay

@wissox McGrath has his own thread with a few comments:

https://kubuckets.com/topic/5660/ku-walk-on-takes-head-coaching-job-at-uncw

wissox

@mayjay Obviously I missed that. Thanks.