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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1778237, member: 837"] I can appreciate the general sentiment of your post -- essentially saying why wouldn't a mid-major try to protect it's program from the sharks that are trying pick off their best talent? And why would a mid-major coach not try to do everything he can do to have success when success is the very thing keeping him employed and/or on track to coaching at a big-time school. I get that. But I'd also argue that you've got some flawed logic beyond those baseline points. For one -- what big schools are doing is irrelevant. The idea that schools are doing everything they can to bend or skirt the rules is fair, but I'm not sure how it matters here. Is UK buying players? Probably but I'm not really sure how that applies here. secondly -- you also have to buy the narrative that a guy gets fired b/c he unexpectedly loses his best player. In 15 years at Drexel, Flint had never reached the NCAAs and he hadn't been over .500 in the previous three seasons before this season's debacle. Then, in 15-16, yes he gets hurt losing a huge piece off the team but he still only managed to win 6 games. That's not good no matter what. So did Flint get fired b/c of that player? I'm not really buying that. Lastly, aren't coaches at these schools doing the 'come here and get an education' thing while recruiting? They all do it, right? We all know it's BS and that we really care about hoops, but we all do that thing. Well, there is a lot of bad things about the NCAA but rewarding kids who actually achieve the pretty remarkable combination of excelling at a sport while completing a degree early is not one of those bad things. It's a sucky thing for those basketball programs and for those coaches -- but if you're going to talk at all about education in a recruitment, then you better stick by it if a kid has a chance to work on a grad degree and further his hoops career three or four years later. [/QUOTE]

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