Post by southhampton on Apr 26, 2005 11:32:06 GMT -5
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Is this a joke?
April 21, 9:42 a.m.
Jan van Breda Kolff wants to become a head coach again. In college basketball. At the Division I level. No joke.
"Jan and those who care about him are very hopeful," his attorney, Lew Conner, said this week in a story published by the Associated Press.
You do that, Lew. You and those who care about van Breda Kolff, all of you people remain hopeful.
A Division I athletics director that would hire van Breda Kolff now is a Division I athletics director in the wrong business. Van Breda Kolff's settlement this week with St. Bonaventure changes nothing beyond his financial situation. Terms of the settlement weren't announced, but van Breda Kolff had sought $21.5 million in his wrongful termination suit that claimed breach of contract and libel after his firing in 2003.
If both sides signed a confidentiality agreement, we'll never know how much, or how little, van Breda Kolff received. Those who care about college basketball are very hopeful that it wasn't all that much, considering van Breda Kolff suited up a player whose best qualification for college was a welding degree.
A school investigation couldn't prove van Breda Kolff had direct knowledge of the player's shaky academic record, but ... come on. Van Breda Kolff was known as a micro-manager of the first order. If an assistant coach sneezed, he knew about it. His power forward gets admitted into school on the strength of a welding degree, and van Breda Kolff didn't know?
Maybe it's true -- which doesn't exactly make van Breda Kolff look all that spiffy, either. Any coach that out of touch with his player's academic background is a coach who doesn't belong in Division I.
And you can take that to the bank.
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Is this a joke?
April 21, 9:42 a.m.
Jan van Breda Kolff wants to become a head coach again. In college basketball. At the Division I level. No joke.
"Jan and those who care about him are very hopeful," his attorney, Lew Conner, said this week in a story published by the Associated Press.
You do that, Lew. You and those who care about van Breda Kolff, all of you people remain hopeful.
A Division I athletics director that would hire van Breda Kolff now is a Division I athletics director in the wrong business. Van Breda Kolff's settlement this week with St. Bonaventure changes nothing beyond his financial situation. Terms of the settlement weren't announced, but van Breda Kolff had sought $21.5 million in his wrongful termination suit that claimed breach of contract and libel after his firing in 2003.
If both sides signed a confidentiality agreement, we'll never know how much, or how little, van Breda Kolff received. Those who care about college basketball are very hopeful that it wasn't all that much, considering van Breda Kolff suited up a player whose best qualification for college was a welding degree.
A school investigation couldn't prove van Breda Kolff had direct knowledge of the player's shaky academic record, but ... come on. Van Breda Kolff was known as a micro-manager of the first order. If an assistant coach sneezed, he knew about it. His power forward gets admitted into school on the strength of a welding degree, and van Breda Kolff didn't know?
Maybe it's true -- which doesn't exactly make van Breda Kolff look all that spiffy, either. Any coach that out of touch with his player's academic background is a coach who doesn't belong in Division I.
And you can take that to the bank.
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