Missouri pay for play?

[chicolby]

So an assistant coach making $300k per year at Washington happens to have a son who is the number one rated recruit for next season. Missouri hires a new head coach and then brings in said assistant coach (likely for significantly more than 300k) allegedly to bring along his all star son.

This is likely a one and done type situation for the son, but also likely to have benefits for other players to come along and maybe put Mizzou back on the hoops map.

If Nebraska had this opportunity, would you do it?

I guess it would be hard not to, but really reeks of everyone but the player getting paid for the player's talent.

 

[redfanusa]

Nebraska Basketball is the worst program in the country. I would invite any behavior that gets tournament wins, no matter how dirty or unethical. If ISIS had a star player who would put them over the top, I would welcome him and his brother's belt bomb. I'm that desperate.

 

[tpmcg]

i hear what you are saying.

 

[headcard]

Heck yes we should do it.

 

[schuele]

Looks like the family has some connections to Missouri that go beyond the assistant coaching gig:

The Porters lived in Columbia from 2010-2016 when Porter Sr. worked on the Mizzou women’s basketball staff under coach Robin Pingeton, his sister-in-law. Mizzou was among Porter Jr.’s final five college choices when he committed to Washington last year, along with Indiana, Virginia and Oklahoma. Kim Anderson offered Porter Sr. a job on his staff last spring, but he instead moved to Seattle to join Washington’s staff. The Porters’ younger son, Jontay Porter, a four-star recruit for the 2018 class, is committed to Washington. The Porters’ sisters, Cierra and Bri, play on the Mizzou women’s team. (from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

And apparently Kim Anderson is a low-down dirty cheater just like Cuonzo Martin - he's just not any good at it.

 

[kaz36]

If Nebraska had this opportunity, would you do it?

Heck yes I wish they would do it. What is the NCAA gonna tell us? That we cant go to the post season because we "cheated"? Nebrasketball is already on self imposed probation. Why not?

 

[cubsker]

i fail to see the problem with what missouri did.

 

[Charlie Marlow]

This isn't even cheating. It's not that uncommon you know.

 

[anon_umk0ifu6vj6zi]

So an assistant coach making $300k per year at Washington happens to have a son who is the number one rated recruit for next season. Missouri hires a new head coach and then brings in said assistant coach (likely for significantly more than 300k) allegedly to bring along his all star son.

This is likely a one and done type situation for the son, but also likely to have benefits for other players to come along and maybe put Mizzou back on the hoops map.

If Nebraska had this opportunity, would you do it?

I guess it would be hard not to, but really reeks of everyone but the player getting paid for the player's talent.

No. Family is from there.

 

[bigboxes]

If Nebraska had this opportunity, would you do it?

Barney Cotton

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

Shaking my damn head. Recruit and coach. Nothing illegal here.

 

[hddude55]

Why not Mizzou? If worked fine for KU. Kansas had a long stretch of mediocrity -- not total incompetence like NU, but mediocrity by KU's historical standards. They then hired the much traveled, borderline sleazeball Larry Brown and he hired an assistant Ed Manning, a former pro player. As I recall, Ed had no degree and his college coaching credentials were suspect at best. Oh well, son Danny came with Ed and KU basketball was on top again. Obviously, it has remained excellent almost every year since.

 

[newAD]

Danny Manning is appalled.

 

[litespeedhuskerfan]

Setting aside the connection that exists between the dad and the school for a minute, no. In no way shape or form is this pay for play and I wish we'd do it.

 

[Pennsyhusker]

Nebraska basketball is just a flat-out joke. TOTALLY inexcusable for us to be this awful EVERY DAMN YEAR. So whatever it takes to win, within the rules, we should do. This should not even be a debate.

Heck, I guarantee that nobody on here would be complaining if we hired some high school football coach in some capacity if it meant he would also be bringing his five star #1 overall recruit QB son with him.

Tired of excuses for our basketball program. The more I reflect on what a dumpster fire, trash program we are, the more I am convinced it was a mistake to retain Miles.

 

[chicolby]

I never said what was done by Mizzou was illegal. But I did suggest pay for play which is hard to argue. Daddy doesn't get the multiple hundred thousand dollar job if not for talented son.

Good for him that he created a talented son.

It's clearly within the rules but does say something about the "amateur" status of college athletics.

 

[litespeedhuskerfan]

"Amateur" left the barn a long time ago in the big three revenue producing programs in college athletics.

 

[schuele]

Nothing like this would EVER happened at Dear Old Nebraska U. For example, Jack Pierce was clearly hired strictly for his coaching ability, and the fact that he was still living large off NU when Andra Franklin as working his ass off at a hog processing plant - until he got too sick to work there anymore - should not bother anyone.

Some might say that really reeked of everyone but the player getting paid for the player's talent - but it's different when it happens in Lincoln.

 

[jawatkins]

The father was an assistant coach at Washington, the head coach lost his job so likely he would have also. The new head coach for Missouri was from the west coast, brought in the father, who I'm sure he knows well, who is from Missouri, and also has a son that is he number one recruit and wants to play with the team his dad coaches. There is nothing strange here, the kid and father are going home, and the father's career has been in division 1 coaching.

 

[schuele]

We should just fast-forward to this thread's inevitable conclusion:

All us bad fans think it's okay for basketball programs to engage in shady recruiting practices and that's why we don't begin to appreciate the enormous cross Honest Timmy bears when he does everything the right way at the worst job in America that nobody else wants. THE END

 

[jawatkins]

We should just fast-forward to this thread's inevitable conclusion:

All us bad fans think it's okay for basketball programs to engage in shady recruiting practices and that's why we don't begin to appreciate the enormous cross Honest Timmy bears when he does everything the right way at the worst job in America that nobody else wants. THE END

I mean, I don't see how this is even shady. The new coach at mizzou hired an assistant whose previous boss just got fired at Washington. The kid was going to Washington (the fired coach is the kid's godfather) and now he's following his dad to mizzou, which happens to be where they are from in the first place. The kid was probably always going to end up where the dad did, the the dad's career has been division 1 basketball coaching, at one time at mizzou in the women's staff

 

[newAD]

Hell I'd be all for Tim Miles hiring Lonzo Ball's dad as an assistant if it meant we'd get his younger sons to play here. He'd probably turn the job down. We'd at least get media attention for the circus that'd become.

 

[schuele]

I mean, I don't see how this is even shady. The new coach at mizzou hired an assistant whose previous boss just got fired at Washington. The kid was going to Washington (the fired coach is the kid's godfather) and now he's following his dad to mizzou, which happens to be where they are from in the first place. The kid was probably always going to end up where the dad did, the the dad's career has been division 1 basketball coaching, at one time at mizzou in the women's staff

Hey man, don't let facts get in the way of a good Johnny SuperFan stump speech. Just go stand in the Bad Fan Corner until your time out is finished.

 

[huskerssalts]

If we got a top 5 recruit in the country by hiring his dad as an assistant coach, id say do it. Give dude 800k even if thats what it took. Those elite recruits can change a lot on a basketball team and maybe help load up the following years recruits as well.