(03-30-2013 03:18 PM)rebounder2u Wrote: I must have miss understod your post
Marco Morcos was our Director of Basketball Operations. That would be this Marco Morcos, banned from HS coaching in New Jersey for illegal recruiting practices:
http://www.state.nj.us/education/legal/c...120-07.pdf
Mike Davis hired him, and he brought Roderick here in a package deal.
As our DOBO, Morcos did apparently nothing. Lee Moon handled the travel arrangements and such that are usually the DOBO's job (let that indictment of Morcos' uselessness sink in for a moment)
Morcos was invited to move on, and did so to Rice, taking with him Tamir Jackson, one of his Jersey Guys who had committed here (apparently part of the same package).
Rice also eventually fired Morcos. Morcos retaliated by encouraging all of his recruits to leave Rice. Two of them got waivers to play immediately (at programs with a record for buying players from runners -- see Mayo, O.J.) by calling the Rice AD a racist - yet so far, none of the coverage has mentioned whether they thought this vile racism worth reporting to anyone in authority at Rice University. And Arsalan Kazemi was so traumatized by this racism that he is returning to Rice next year to complete his degree.
We are extremely lucky that Mackin got rid of Morcos and he became Rice's PR nightmare.
If these comments were made, they are of course vile and hateful. They are not a joke. But I find it curious that these comments did not become unbearable to Kazemi and Oraby until their mentor wanted to strike back at the guy who fired him.