Staggering Salary by KSU Asst. Coach

http://collegebasketball.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=1146&CID=862660

Any thoughts?

 

As we all know, he was a Niner assistant. That salary will die at the end of his contract, with no Michael Beasley part II on the horizon.

He's like Eric Murphy on Entourage, just pure dumb luck.

 

For KSU to pay Hill this much money to get to use Beasley for one season was idiotic. Now their back down where they were and still have to pay off that outrageous salary. I'm glad UNCC wasn't that stupid.

 

Who here wouldn't have taken the money? Not Hill's fault his employer is stupid.

 

That's not the complaint. The concern is about what this kind of underhanded stuff is doing to college basketball.

 

That's my point exactly, Collin. I'm not sure there is anything anyone can do about it. I guess the University can set a salary at what they want, until it comes under fire from the community for morally being unjust (i.e. Mary Easley). I'm sure things like this that are in a gray area happen more than we know.

Below is an exerpt from the Boston Globe written by Bob Ryan concerning the Duke basketball program.

According to the Times-Picayune's Josh Peter, in the summer of 2000 Vivian Harper, mother of Duke incoming freshman point guard Chris Duhon, moved from her home in Slidell, La., to a two-bedroom apartment in Durham, N.C. She was given a job at a firm called NCM Capital Management Company, a billion-dollar money management firm owned by a man named Maceo Sloan, among whose possessions is an autographed basketball signed by the 1991 Duke championship team, Coach K's first title squad. Workers at the firm say the job was never posted. They also allege that Harper was given a substantial raise within four months.

There's more. Peters also reports that Carlos Boozer Sr., the then-unemployed father of former Duke star Carlos Boozer, was given a job at GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical company owned by Robert Ingram, who is a close friend of Coach K's. In order to take the job, the elder Boozer relocated from Alaska.

Coach K? Say it isn't so!
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--Bob Ryan, Boston Globe.​

Not much was made of this. Being a UNC fan, I know Coach Williams has come under fire a couple of years ago while at Kansas for giving graduation gifts to players.

 

Reading that article reminds me of the movie "Blue Chips."

 

Understood. They need to get away from coachs hiring players dads etc just to get recruits. I can't see how that is even allowed. Hill has a great connection to the DC area so I can see his value. Granted, not that much value though.

 

Why didn't you post about Forte's mother who worked at Octagon while he was in college, and then, amazingly enough....that is who he signed with for an agent?