(03-01-2018 02:13 PM)Monarchblue Wrote: (03-01-2018 02:08 PM)Gilesfan Wrote: (03-01-2018 01:58 PM)Monarchblue Wrote: (03-01-2018 01:53 PM)The Flagship Wrote: (03-01-2018 01:48 PM)Monarchblue Wrote: Wait. I am so confused. Is it the players' fault or the coach's? I think I might have figured it out. Tell me if I am right.
If it is VCU. It is the coach's fault
If it is ODU. It is the players' fault
Did it get it right?
The answer is this:
Choose between a great recruiter or a great coach. Can't have both. You can only choose one. Which one would it be?
Wait. I can have both. My choice was Keatts.
No way stated the coach had to be clean!
Clean? Check. Ok, still going with Keatts.
If excuse making were an Olympic Sport, you would have all the gold medals. Seriously though, you go to astounding lengths. You are now defaming a, by all accounts, good man who has in no way been implicated in any wrongdoing in order to somehow find a glimmer of a reason to defend the hiring of JJ.
...And speaking of dirty, the admin was all in on Andy Enfield, who is in fact dirty, and there is actual evidence for that rather than your conjecture.
There are no excuses. Keats was an assistant coach that was on a team that had wins (and a title vacated). If you believe he was an innocent bystander and knew nothing of the violations, then sobeit it, but you probably aren't being honest with yourself.
And this has nothing to do with Jones. We were not going to hire Keats...ever. Not everything people post on this board is "in defense of Jones."
https://www.cardchronicle.com/2015/10/22...d-to-speak
Keatts was the lead recruiter for the basketball team from 2011 - 2014. In 2014 he was named Associate Head Coach, with Pitino specifically highlighting his recruiting ability.
He brought new energy to the recruiting landscape, specifically with his connection to Hargrave Military Academy that seemingly resulted in Montrezl Harrell, Luke Hancock and Terry Rozier all committing to be Cardinals. All those athletes are now Louisville legends, but critical at this juncture is the fact that two of the three (Harrell, Rozier) were explicitly named by Katina Powell as being involved in transgressions over the four year period.
Maybe even more compelling is Keatts' relationship with former recruit JaQuan Lyle.
Lyle was the first current or former Louisville recruit or player to confirm "the gist" of Powell's allegations.
Keatts was Lyle's main recruiter and when he committed to Louisville, he referenced his relationship with Keatts as one of the driving forces in his decision. A 2013 story by Steve Jones of the Courier-Journal spoke with Lyle before his commitment and he referred to Keatts as "the best person I've ever played in ping pong". He goes on to say he's played Keatts over 10 times in the Billy Minardi dorms.
There has to be questions directed at the current head basketball coach of a public University who had the defining relationship with the one recruit who has validated details of Powell's story to the NCAA.
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22-6.........or why numbers are deceiving
