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From: Shane Ford <goufgators@bellsouth.net>
Date: November 20, 2015 at 7:00:49 AM CST
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Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: Should college coaches know all that is going on in program?
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--Should college coaches know all that is going on in program?
Florida coach Jim McElwain screams at the coaching staff during the game against Vanderbilt earlier this month.
Alan Youngblood/Star-BannerPublished: Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 10:20 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 10:20 a.m.
When it comes to college athletics sports scandals, not knowing can be as damaging as a violation itself.
The latest scandal at Louisville, involving alleged prostitution in an on-campus dorm to entice basketball recruits, raises an interesting and concerning topic for coaches across the college landscape. If Hall of Fame Louisville coach Rick Pitino had no knowledge of the actions of his former graduate assistant Andre McGee, who reportedly set up paid sex for recruits, should he have known?
Under NCAA bylaws, Pitino and Louisville could be hit with the same dreaded "lack of institutional control" sanctions that were levied against Miami in 2013 for failing to monitor rogue booster and ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro.
Is it possible, or reasonable, for a coach to know everything that goes on within his program?
"Programs have gotten so big, staffs have gotten so big, to say I know everything going on in my program would be a lie," Texas A&M basketball coach Billy Kennedy said. "I respect Coach Pitino and I don't believe he knew what was going on. Unfortunately, it's our job and we're paid a lot of money to have the responsibility of knowing what is going on in those type of situations. I'd like to think I would have known that."
Kennedy recalled some stories about how evangelical preacher Billy Graham avoided scandal. When Graham met with a woman, he always left the door open and always had someone present.
"We've got to do that in a different way with everything we do because we're in a high-profile position," Kennedy said. "We've got to be sensitive to that in a position as head college basketball coach that I don't think Adolph Rupp was worried about years ago."
Georgia men's basketball coach Mark Fox said it's impossible to know everything that goes on within a program.
"You're never going to know everything," Fox said. "But you do owe it to your university and your team to have a great pulse on your program and to have a set of eyes and ears out there that help keep that pulse and know what it is."
At Florida, football coach Jim McElwain prides himself on being detail-oriented and welcomes the responsibility of monitoring his program.
"Well, I think we should," McElwain said. "That's our job. Some things, you know, we don't have them 24 hours a day. I wish I could. I wish I could have them all over at the house. I'm here to protect them. I'm here to help them.
"What you try to do is educate. Here's the thing I think people don't get sometimes. It's your choice. But it's, I'm wrong if I don't try to help educate. That's where our duty is."
Florida men's basketball coach Mike White said it comes down to the type of players being brought into your program.
"How realistic is it to monitor your players? I think the first factor would be, what type of student-athletes do you have," White said. "What type of relationships do you have, what type of relationships do they have with each other, what type of overall character do they have. That's why in recruiting and evaluating that's one of the things that coaches are looking for, a lot of times first and foremost before anything else, guys that you can trust on and off the court."
White said he had tried to monitor recruiting visits closely, both at Louisiana Tech and now now at Florida.
"You can't spend 24 hours a day with your student-athletes and you can't with your recruits," White said. "But you do your best to keep your eyes and ears open and have your staff members do the same. It's a challenge of course at times and it is at every program in the country. But again, you want to bring in those student-athletes that you feel like, at the bottom of your heart, are representing you and your university, the way that it deserves to be represented."
Contact Kevin Brockway at 352-374-5054 or brockwk@gvillesun.com. Also check out Brockway's blog at Gatorsports.com.
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