Jim "win at all costs" Harrick does it again.
Did anybody else just see that report that Jeremy Schaap did on SportsCenter? (if not, it will probably be on again at 11pm)
They just a piece on how Jim Harrick and assistant Jim Harrick Jr. might have violated NCAA's rules by paying for bills and fixing grades for former Dawg Tony Cole (one of the guys that was arrested on rape charges last summer). Cole has come out with numerous violations by papa Harrick and junior.
1. A lady that Cole stayed with for a time received a wire transfer from Jim Harrick for close to $300 to pay for Cole's phone bills while he was there. She has the wire receipt with Harrick's name on it.
2. Harrick put Cole up in a Holiday Inn free of charge early in his enrollment at UGA.
3. Fixed grades while Cole was at this community college. Cole claims that two classes he had to retake because of D's...he received A's because the work was being sent to Harrick. He claims he never saw the work. His quote was something to the effect of " It obviously wasn't my work because I got A's" :-)
BTW, he took a class called "The Principles of Coaching Basketball" - taught by Harrick Jr.
We are talking BIG violations here folks...worse than anything Harrick has done at UCLA or Rhode Island before. This could (A) get him canned, or (B) get the Dawgs put on probation. I've said since the day they hired him that he'd get them put on probation before he left Athens. Looks like that day might be coming sooner that I thought...
Two comments:
1) The boogers in my nose offer roughly the same level of surprise as Jim "The Crook" Harrick's transgressions.
2) BWAHAHAHAHAHA! :laugh: :laugh: Heeheeeehee
Haaaahaaahaahahahaha
*chuckle* *snort* ROTFLMAO!
[Damon Wayans]
But wait...there's more!
[/Scary Movie]
<a href='http://espn.go.com/ncb/news/2003/0227/1515552.html' target='_blank'>ESPN.com</a> now has an article up. That bastiche is in over his head this time. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
wow...not that i'm surprised. people are so greedy: they always pick just the right times to expose these big secrets. not that i'm complaining about u(sic)ga being under review.
JoltinJacket Wrote:Jim "win at all costs" Harrick does it again.
They just a piece on how Jim Harrick and assistant Jim Harrick Jr. might have violated NCAA's rules by paying for bills and fixing grades for former Dawg Tony Cole (one of the guys that was arrested on rape charges last summer).
Sounds like a Marshall football incident. :D
HF4L - :wave:
Looks like Harrick Jr. just got suspended. Per AJC.com...
Quote:University of Georgia officials will announce today that assistant basketball coach Jim Harrick Jr. will be suspended with pay pending an investigation into allegations made by former UGA point guard Tony Cole that Harrick Jr. provided him with improper benefits and academic assistance.
<a href='http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/sports/uga/0203/28nucole.html' target='_blank'>http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/sports/ug...3/28nucole.html</a>
One down, one to go...
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Tony Cole,you stupid,dumb,bitter,idiot,lying idiot. :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang:
And Jermaine Brooks was just holding some goods for a friend? If I could admit shady dealings of my school. You can do the same.
cant_think_of_a_witty_name Wrote:And Jermaine Brooks was just holding some goods for a friend? If I could admit shady dealings of my school. You can do the same.
This is Tony Cole we're talking about witty.
It takes a dawg (cheater) to know one.
GDawgs88 Wrote:cant_think_of_a_witty_name Wrote:And Jermaine Brooks was just holding some goods for a friend? If I could admit shady dealings of my school. You can do the same.
This is Tony Cole we're talking about witty.
Yeah, Cole is a known thug, but the Harricks are known crooks. This crap happens everywhere they go. And Cole has proof (money order receipt) to back up these charges.
JoltinJacket Wrote:GDawgs88 Wrote:cant_think_of_a_witty_name Wrote:And Jermaine Brooks was just holding some goods for a friend? If I could admit shady dealings of my school. You can do the same.
This is Tony Cole we're talking about witty.
Yeah, Cole is a known thug, but the Harricks are known crooks. This crap happens everywhere they go. And Cole has proof (money order receipt) to back up these charges.
Then why did Cole sign a document saying he hadn't received any benefits from the University?He's a bitter player who will do any thing to try to get Coach Harrick fired.
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If Coach Harrick didn't violate NCAA regulations in the first place, it wouldn't be a problem now would it?
GDawgs88 Wrote:JoltinJacket Wrote:GDawgs88 Wrote:cant_think_of_a_witty_name Wrote:And Jermaine Brooks was just holding some goods for a friend? If I could admit shady dealings of my school. You can do the same.
This is Tony Cole we're talking about witty.
Yeah, Cole is a known thug, but the Harricks are known crooks. This crap happens everywhere they go. And Cole has proof (money order receipt) to back up these charges.
Then why did Cole sign a document saying he hadn't received any benefits from the University?He's a bitter player who will do any thing to try to get Coach Harrick fired.
He signed that document when he signed with UGA, correct?
Why tell the truth and risk not getting to play basketball?
Jim Harrick Jr. Suspended at Georgia
February 28, 2003 06:51 PM EST
ATHENS, Ga. - Georgia assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr. was suspended Friday, a day after a former player accused him of paying his expenses and committing academic fraud.
Harrick, son of head coach Jim Harrick, is barred from participating in practices and games, athletic director Vince Dooley said in a statement. He will be permitted to use basketball office facilities.
"In light of the seriousness of the allegations, we feel that it is appropriate to suspend Jim Harrick Jr. with pay, until such time as these allegations are investigated to our satisfaction," the statement said.
In an interview with ESPN on Thursday night, Tony Cole said Harrick Jr. paid $300 for a phone bill that Cole ran up while staying with the mother of a friend during the summer of 2001.
Cole also said Harrick Jr. took or arranged for someone else to take two correspondence courses for him from Lincoln Trail College. Harrick Jr. also taught a coaching class at Georgia and gave Cole an "A" even though the player never attended the class, Cole said.
The elder Harrick briefly addressed reporters before practice Friday, but didn't take any questions.
"Despite the many issues we've had in the past with Tony Cole, we take these things seriously," Harrick said. "To attack our program is something that I really take very seriously.
"I'm very, very confident that we'll come to a swift and positive answer to all of these questions."
With that, he walked to the practice gym, saying he had to prepare for a game. Georgia, ranked No. 21 in the latest Associated Press poll, hosts No. 2 Kentucky on Sunday.
The younger Harrick was not available Friday.
University president Michael Adams also issued a statement, saying Ed Tolley, legal counsel to the university's athletic association, would lead the investigation and that the NCAA's enforcement director, David Price, had been asked for assistance.
"The allegations concerning the basketball program are serious. We will take definitive and appropriate actions based upon the findings of this investigation," Adams said.
Cole was suspended after 16 games last season when he faced sexual assault charges, but he wasn't reinstated even after the charges were dropped. He was arrested on campus in December and charged with trespassing after he refused to leave the weight room in the Ramsey Student Center.
He has since left school.
The summer before he enrolled at Georgia, Cole lived for a time with Eva Davis, the mother of a friend, in Baton Rouge, La. Davis told ESPN that a man who gave his name as Jim Harrick called her and offered to pay any expenses she incurred while Cole was there. When a $300 phone bill came, the money was sent to pay for it, she said.
A receipt from Western Union identified the sender as "Jim Harrick."
Later, when his enrollment was delayed, Cole stayed in Athens-area hotels for about two weeks, running up more than $1,000 in charges. He said Harrick paid the bills.
In a statement released just hours after Cole's ESPN interview, Dooley said Cole had signed a document denying he had been given extra benefits.
Harrick Jr. has been on staff at Georgia for nearly two years under his father. Dooley helped arrange the younger Harrick's 's hiring even though the school has a rule that generally prevents employees from working for relatives.
Officially, Harrick Jr.'s job is split between the basketball team and the Georgia Athletic Association development office.
In February, the University of Rhode Island settled a sexual harassment lawsuit against the elder Harrick, who coached there before coming to Georgia. A former athletic department employee at the school claimed she was improperly touched and abused with obscene language.
In 1996, UCLA fired the elder Harrick, who won a national title there, for lying about an expense report.
Last season, Harrick Jr. admitted his school-issued biography exaggerated his playing career and academic honors. The bio said he played on two Pepperdine teams that made the NCAA tournament and was twice a member of the West Coast Academic All-Conference Team.
He later said he made one NCAA tournament appearance at Pepperdine, and he missed another because he went to junior college to improve his grades. Harrick Jr. also said he won a different academic award, not the one listed.
Jimbo admits he and his son paid Cole's phone bill, but there are
even more lies being spewed.
Quote:Per <a href='http://espn.go.com/ncb/news/2003/0301/1516623.html' target='_blank'>ESPN.com</a>
In a story published Saturday in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jim Harrick Sr. admitted the University of Georgia passed $300 to Tony Cole.
Cole, a former University of Georgia basketball player, told ESPN in an interview Thursday night that Jim Harrick Jr. paid the $300 for a phone bill that Cole ran up while staying with the mother of a friend during the summer of 2001.
Harrick Jr., son of Bulldogs head coach Jim Harrick and an assistant coach on Georgia's coaching staff, was suspended Friday with pay pending the outcome of an investigation by the university, the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA.
Harrick Sr. told the newspaper that the money came from the Dale Brown Foundation, but that he had no receipt showing it came from the private nonprofit foundation, which is named after LSU's former men's basketball coach and assists needy students.
"They sent us the money," Harrick told the Journal-Constitution, "and (Cole) wanted it."
However, in a phone conversation with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap, Brown said "that is totally invalid.
"Why would I send somebody money in Georgia (meaning the Harricks) if I live in the same town (as Tony Cole)?"
[Heh...BUSTED! :wave: ]
Cole lived at the time with Eva Davis, the mother of a friend, in Baton Rouge, La.
Brown stated he has never sent any money to the Harricks personally, or through his foundation.
Brown, who retired from coaching at LSU in 1997, said that over the years he has personally given Cole approximately $10,000 but none since before the summer of 2001.
Davis has provided to ESPN a receipt of the Western Union money transfer to her to cover Coles' bill. The receipt bears the name Jim Harrick.
BWAHAHAHA! Oh what a tangled web he weaves. Now even more violations are being brought out by Mr. Cole.
<a href='http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/sports/uga/0303/02cole.html' target='_blank'>Per AJC.com...</a>
Quote:Tony Cole's allegations of NCAA rules violations in the University of Georgia men's basketball program spread Saturday far beyond the accusations he made in an interview broadcast on ESPN Thursday night.
Cole told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Saturday that:
He bought a 28-inch color television from Circuit City in Athens with the personal credit card of Georgia head coach Jim Harrick.
Mike Young, a Georgia basketball booster, has given him as much as $900 in cash over the last couple of years, including $300 for a one-day shopping spree.
Other players currently on the team have received improper benefits through Young and others.
On Thursday, ESPN broadcast Cole's allegations that Georgia assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr. committed academic fraud on his behalf and paid his phone and hotel bills. On Friday, Georgia suspended Harrick Jr. with pay. But Saturday, Cole said that Harrick was involved along with Harrick's son.
"It's both of them," Cole said.
Young did not immediately return a phone message left Saturday afternoon. Harrick could not be reached Saturday afternoon but said Friday he was "very confident we'll come to a very swift and positive answer to all these questions."
Saturday, former Louisiana State University men's basketball coach Dale Brown disputed Harrick's assertion that a $300 wire transfer sent under the name "Jim Harrick" represented funds Georgia was relaying to Cole from the Dale Brown Foundation. Cole says the money was to pay a phone bill he incurred while staying with friends.
"I'm sorry to say that's invalid and it's offensive to me because I am a better guardian of the foundation than that," Brown said. "Money would never go to something so luxurious and stupid as a $300 phone bill."
Brown, who lives in Baton Rouge, has known Cole since Cole attended high school here. Brown estimated that his foundation has donated more than $10,000 to Cole over the years, 90 percent of which was "for school purposes." Cole has attended at least five high schools -- some of them private -- and two junior colleges, and Brown said the money was paid directly to the educational institutions for tuition, fees, books and registration.
Cole, 23, was kicked off Georgia's team after being charged with aggravated assault with intent to rape, a charge that was later dismissed. He has had several other run-ins with the law. He played in 16 games with the Bulldogs in 2001-02 and left the university in December.
Of the television purchase, Cole said: "I went to Circuit City [in Athens]; I got a 28-inch TV. That was paid with 'Coach Senior's' credit card, if you want to do a background check on that. I still have the TV, and it should be on his billing statement.
"The list goes on and on."
Cole declined to provide a date or location for a shopping spree he says was financed by Young.
"The most I got out of him while I was [at Georgia] was about $900," Cole said. "I went shopping one day and he gave me, I think it was $300. He left me at the mall, and he didn't come back and get me. That's how scared he was. It was 8:30 in the morning, and the mall didn't open till 9 o'clock. He said he was going to come back and get me at 11. He never did. I only spent about $50 at the mall, and it cost me about $30 to get back to my dorm on campus."
Cole said that Young "gave me like $100 or $200 at different times." And he said that he wasn't the only Georgia player to benefit from Young's generosity.
"Are you kidding me? The guys were over to his house to eat steak just last week, a couple of players," Cole said.
Cole said he does not feel bad for accepting money and gifts while playing basketball for Georgia.
"I never looked at it or never even thought about it as me doing anything wrong by accepting anything," Cole said. ". . . I've got a gift. My talent sells. When you play in sports, the more you do, the better things you get. You do good and you're about to get drafted, you get an Escalade, you get a new truck. . . . I've never looked at it as doing anything wrong."
:eek: If this is true, it's checkmate for Jim "I can one-up Tarkanian" Harrick.
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I don't even know what to say.
GDawgs88 Wrote:I don't even know what to say.
That is how I always feel about FSU :rolleyes:
~NOLEY~ :wave: