RE: Deal With the Devil

[Steve Ray]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darryl Gilliam [mailto:address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Deal With the Devil
>
> We cant continue to take risks on kids with spotty backgrounds and then
expect the rest of
> the world to turn their heads when they give opinions about the character
of our players.

You have to remember, Bob Huggins doesn't care what other people think about
his program.  He recruits/coaches with his own conscience, and the only
thing that concerns him is that he does right by the school and his players.
Playing PR director for the program is not in his job description.  UC will
always have the 'thug' image no matter who Huggins recruits, because the
press is to lazy to report otherwise and the general public doesn't want to
hear it.

Huggins has always recruited troubled kids and he always will.  While most
of them will turn their lives around and keep their noses clean, a few
won't.  If that bothers you, I suggest you follow another program, because
Bob Huggins isn't going to change one iota in order to satisfy the media or
public opinion.