And there may have been some fairly questionable recruiting techniques used in time period also.


It was mentioned in another post UALR might have employed questionable recruiting techniques.
Jim Calvin was the recruiting coordinator. We talked about recruiting and cheating. He said people who think we cheat are nuts. We don't have the money to cheat even if we wanted to cheat.
He told me a player to watch and see where the player wound up playing college ball. Whereever the player goes you know the school cheated to get him. How do you know that I asked.
He said the players' coach would not let a college coach talk to his player unles the college coach paid him (the coach) a large fee.
I don't remember the player or where he wound up. He did not end up at an Arkansas school, but he was recruited by an Arkansas school.

I liked Jim Calvin. A solid man.
Calvin recruited Paris McCurdy and Curtis Kidd. They made a bad mistake. They were not thugs. They never discharged a firearm on a crowded city street. That's a thug.
Those two turned Ball State into a top 20 program, took Ball State to the Elite Eight, and made Rick Majerus' career.

(02-18-2009 12:15 AM)ez272 Wrote:  And there may have been some fairly questionable recruiting techniques used in time period also.


It was mentioned in another post UALR might have employed questionable recruiting techniques.
Jim Calvin was the recruiting coordinator. We talked about recruiting and cheating. He said people who think we cheat are nuts. We don't have the money to cheat even if we wanted to cheat.
He told me a player to watch and see where the player wound up playing college ball. Whereever the player goes you know the school cheated to get him. How do you know that I asked.
He said the players' coach would not let a college coach talk to his player unles the college coach paid him (the coach) a large fee.
I don't remember the player or where he wound up. He did not end up at an Arkansas school, but he was recruited by an Arkansas school.

I liked Jim Calvin. A solid man.
Calvin recruited Paris McCurdy and Curtis Kidd. They made a bad mistake. They were not thugs. They never discharged a firearm on a crowded city street. That's a thug.
Those two turned Ball State into a top 20 program, took Ball State to the Elite Eight, and made Rick Majerus' career.

I think they used a credit card that they found. Certainly wrong, but not a terrible crime. Just kids doing something stupid. Reminded me of a bunch of kids in my dorm in college getting ahold of some type of phone card number and using it to call friends and family. I don't really think they fully realized they were committing a crime until they got caught. These were all good kids from, good homes. Like you said, 25 years later Paris and Curtis' misdeeds don't look so bad.