Coach Beilein finally agrees with Cavs management to step away. It's still unknown what the financial agreement was, but Coach will say good-bye to the players today and start his next chapter. He will have options next season in college basketball but I hope he ends up in Michigan's athletics department, as he is great ambassador for Michigan Basketball and all of athletics.
Good luck coach and please don't end up in the Big Ten! :)
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Mel, congratulations on the new big contract at Michigan State. Are you starting to see what has been going around here for the last few years?
If your wondering that is Curtis Blackwell on the far left. With Daelin Hayes a 5 star recruit from Ann Arbor ironically. The photo is from Hayes mother La Keshia Neal during a recruiting visit and breakfast. Hayes is now at Notre Dame, if you remember U of M didn't recruit Hayes very hard and it seemed the sentiment was mutual. Hayes had transferred high schools and ended up in Ann Arbor during his senior season at Skyline. Mike Tressel is also in the photo, as he was just retained by Mel at MSU.
The issue with that photo is that Mark Dantonio said this during a deposition: (DetNews)
The photo and affidavit call into question the credibility of Dantonio, who in a January deposition denied under oath that Blackwell ever recruited off campus, as well as that of athletic director Bill Beekman, who called the assertion "patently false" in comments to the press this month. More significantly, the allegations could prompt an investigation and sanctions from the NCAA days after MSU's hiring of a new football coach.
During his deposition, Dantonio was asked if Blackwell ever went with him to visit recruits in their homes. Dantonio responded, "No."Dantonio also was asked if that would've been a violation of NCAA rules, and Dantonio responded, "Yes."
Dantonio acknowledged in his deposition that Blackwell may have accompanied him or driven him to recruiting visits, but waited in the car.
So did Mark commit perjury? Did he commit NCAA violations and then lie about it?
This clearly was the reason Mark stepped down so quickly a few weeks ago. Another case where the cover up is greater then the crime. Having a recruiting coordinator attend a recruiting visit, is probably a slap on the wrist from the NCAA, its when you lie about it, more trouble seems to find you.
That is just from the NCAA, what about the legal aspects of lieing under oath? This can't be good for Dantonio in this case as he has alreadyproven to not be truthful. If he and his lawyers had just settled the case with Blackwell:
- Mark is still the head coach at MSU
- There wouldn't have been the dumpster fire coaching search
- MSU wouldn't be looking at NCAA Probation
Blackwell's lawyers are also asserting that Dantonio also got jobs for recruits family with a prominent booster.
How MSU let Dantonio do that deposition is beyond me. Its just another example of the lack of leadership at that institution.
Run Mel! Run Fast!
4 comments:
Sparty should lawyer up and go get their $4.5M back from Mark. How? He committed these violations prior to that Jan 15th bonus date. Get some lawyers to go to court and say "had the university had known what Coach D was up to, why we'd never have kept him employed your Honor!" We know that's a lie as sparty really doesn't care about integrity or character anyway, but some judge might buy it and give the taxpayers back their $4.5M. Dantonio; he knows his Xs and Os, but he was a man of minimal stature and integrity. Build a shrine to him Sparty, he represents you well!
Sparty should lawyer up and go get their $4.5M back from Mark. How? He committed these violations prior to that Jan 15th bonus date. Get some lawyers to go to court and say "had the university had known what Coach D was up to, why we'd never have kept him employed your Honor!" We know that's a lie as sparty really doesn't care about integrity or character anyway, but some judge might buy it and give the taxpayers back their $4.5M. Dantonio; he knows his Xs and Os, but he was a man of minimal stature and integrity. Build a shrine to him Sparty, he represents you well!
Leave Mark dantonio alone he's a good coach better than Harbaugh so far... at least he beat Ohio State went to the playoffs
To be honest, it does bother me that the reports around the sports world are pointing their fingers at Coach B for not being able to adjust to the NBA game and not looking at the Cavs for losing Byron Scott, Mike Brown, David Blatt, Tyronn Lue, Larry Drew and now John Beilein all since just 2013. If you are the common denominator in a similar on-going problem then it's likely that the problem is YOU. If it had been a more stable basketball program e.g. like the Miami Heat that did this then it would be different, but it was... Cleveland.
Now they've given Coach B's coaching career a black eye when the Cavs have hand a reputation for being a problem even for Labron James. If you go back and look at the articles written about how he related to his teammates you'd get the impression he left Cleveland to get away from them. I don't want to see Coach B coach another college team but I don't want him to be labeled as a bad NBA coach because "he" didn't make it work at...Cleveland. Without Labron James no coach even the great coach Phil Jackson or Pat Riley could make it work with what they have there now. If you remember some years ago, Tom Izzo was offered the job but when he found out that Labron wasn't going to stay then Izzo stayed at MSU. I hope Coach B stays in the NBA and at least becomes an assistant and gets another shot at HC. IMHO!!!
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