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[QUOTE="PeteCalvin, post: 5635201, member: 439"]
Jason Hart was put in a very uncomfortable position by a sleezy coach who tried to leverage Jason’s brother’s illness to smear SU and force them to release Jason.  Harrick lost his primary PG target, Olujimi Mann, at the last minute, and immediately went after Hart trying to play up the illness angle with his family.  The “you could stay home and be near your brother.  Tell Syracuse you want to change your mind because of your brother’s condition.”  In reality, Jason’s brother’s condition hadn’t changed at all, but that was the leverage UCLA encouraged him to use.  JB smelled a rat and was way ahead of Harrick.  Jason wanted to come to SU, and his brother was happy for him.  There must have been some other promises ($$$) that Harrick made to the family to put Jason in the position to make the call and try and get out of his NLI.  JB and Jake shielded Jason by saying no way to letting him out of it.  They did Jason a favor.

Kind of ironic, and very telling, that Harrick was let go by the Bruins the following year because of another recruiting scandal.  I still think the Jason Hart situation is what really resulted in his eventual firing.  The second scandal that was put forth in the tabloids was far less egregious.  Harrick was as slippery as they come.  I think he got booted from UGA a few seasons later for the same crap.
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