RE: AK has recruited good players to UC?

[Dan Marshall]

But we've already stated for a fact that others still do that today, it's
still not "even" 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Sherman [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 2:19 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] AK has recruited good players to UC?

I think Jerry's point is that he payed because that is what the competitor's
were doing. So that didn't give him an edge as much as put him on even
footing.

On 3/1/06, Dan Marshall <address@hidden> wrote:
> i think if he had to PAY people, then his recruiting skills have to be 
> questioned.
>
> and "excellent" recruiter wouldn't have to pay people to play would he?
>
> By this standard, we're saying we would have been happier if Huggins 
> payed players that weren't second chance guys than having him recruit 
> what he could.
>
>  ________________________________
>  From: jerry weinstein [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:52 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [UC Basketball] AK has recruited good players to UC?
>
>
>
> Tom, yes, Catlett was an excellent recruiter and yes, there was money 
> involved with many of his recruits.
>
> Catlett's tenure here will always bear the mark of scandal because we 
> were caught giving players money.  But in reality he was only doing 
> the same thing as his competitors.  Anyone who would take away from 
> Catlett's recruiting by saying he cheated, would have to do the same 
> thing in assessing Adolf Rupp, Joe Hall, Denny Crum, Dean Smith and 
> other coaching legends of this era.  I know, because I met and 
> recruited against these coaches.  I know what they were saying to the
players in question.
> Kentucky and Louisville in particular were far more blatant than UC 
> was. UC never got a player away from Louisville with money.  That 
> would be like me outbidding Bill Gates for an oil painting. Robert 
> Miller chose UC over Louisville  because he liked our coaches more.  
> He particularly hit it off with Alan Hmiel.
>
> But that was 30 years ago.  Many things are different now, including 
> the fact that most schools don't cheat anymore, for which we can all 
> be thankful.  It is true that cheating is most prevalent among SEC 
> programs in the deep South, which is one reason why you have to be 
> careful about who you recruit there.
>
> You have read my comments about Vincent Banks in previous posts, 
> making it unnecessary for me to expound on the difference I see 
> between him and players like Collier and Cummings.
>
> Huggins maintained his winning ways till the end at UC.  It was the 
> trend that concerned me, as reflected by the rate of attrition, which 
> made it an open question in my mind whether he would succeed in the 
> Big East.  It was a question I wanted answered by having him continue 
> to coach, for at least the next two years.


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