Today, the coach of the USC Trojans Tim Floyd decided to step down as men's basketball coach only after three years with the team. This is the latest in the long story lines about Floyd and the shady recruiting that has been going on at USC especially with O.J. Mayo.
I had ripped Floyd a new one when I heard he took the Arizona job which turned out to be false but it does make one wonder why didnt he? My guess is Floyd felt that he could outsmart the NCAA and somewhat swipe these Mayo allegations under the floor. He didnt do anything remotely close to that as they found out about the supposed 1000 dollars Floyd gave to one of O.J. Mayo handlers which I wrote about it in this article. As I said in the end of that article, I truly believe now that the NCAA has gather enough evidence and is prepared to bring the hammer down on the program. Andy Katz wrote an awesome article himself on many reasons why this could have happened.
I think this also raises the question are these uber one-year wonders really worth having in college basketball? We have now seen two programs (USC and Memphis) deal with a mountain of problems because of these one year guys who provide great excitement but in the end it is all trouble. The NCAA and the NBA need to take a closer look at the one year rule to see if its really worth having when you have programs consistently having problems to attempt to get ahead in the college basketball world.
Floyd I feel should never coach again at a major program a lot like Kelvin Sampson due to the fact that they are proven dirty coaches. Iowa State had a heap of issues when Floyd left and now USC is facing those same sort of issues. He can enjoy being an assistant or working for a small team although no team should ever take the risk of having Floyd be their head coach.
I find it hard to believe that many big name coaches will want to coach at USC. I think they will probably go inside their program with someone who has USC ties since they are destined to be some sort of trouble. Whoever they find needs to have a clean record and no one that can cause the problems that Floyd did.
-Charlie.
1 comment:
Tim Floyd is a cock and his program has been falling apart for years. I don't think the one year wonders are the problem. Its agents treating players like a cash cow, just milking them for all the money they can get. Floyd is still a cock though.
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