[thefactor]

Oh yes, the evil NCAA. Please. The students use the schools and the schools use the students. I think Calhoun sent a couple texts he wasn’t supposed to send. Jeez.

[Paladin2]

Get the NCAA out of Indianapolis, Indiana

[JacksonCalhoun]

The neo-socialists in the media don’t like Calhoun (who is an old-school Massachusetts liberal) because he told a community organizer-type to go take a hike at a press conference, when the guy asked him if he was going to give any of his salary back because the state of CT was in debt. “Not a dime back!!!” was his swift rebuke.

[Mobties]

“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” Matthew 7:3

When it comes to flagrantly lax professional ethics, few can match those of the New York TImes' reporters, editors, and management.

[dfwgator]

[Saltmeat]

The NCAA is rotten to the core. It should be audited from top to bottom to see where the millions of dollars are being spent. I suspect that the organization is rife with lavish salaries, benefits and expense accounts. If the chairman of the United Way would steal from the mouths of the poor, can we just imagine what the NCAA may be doing on the backs of the student athletes. The NCAA is about money and politics and not about the welfare of the student-athlete. I don’t care what their “we are turning pro in something besides sports” claim. It is PR to benefit the NCAA’s image.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"we’re talking about, an organization that bends over backward to accommodate big-time basketball schools like Connecticut that drive TV ratings, and marquee coaches like Calhoun, who, with his $2.3 million salary, is the highest-paid state employee in Connecticut"

Name a state employee who brings more money and noteriety to the state than Jim Calhoun? And it's not like he inherited a great program. Before Calhoun, Conneticut basketball was not a powerhouse. My guess, after Calhoun it may revert back to the same thing.

[longjack]

I actually knew Jim Calhoun when he was younger. Not as a friend or acquaintance, just as a person I'd run into because we were in the same place sometimes.

He impressed me back then as a person who was very respectful of other human beings, even to dweebs like me, even when he didn't have to be, and even when the people around him weren't.

He grew up in a Massachusetts mill town, like me, and I always thought he had that basic respect for common working people that I remember people having in that era.

I was overseas a long time and when I returned I was surprised to see how well he had done. I was happy for him.

I'm writing this post as my way of thanking him for treating me as a human being for no other reason than that is what I was.

[Retired Greyhound]

I think the players should be allowed to accept as much money and gifts from boosters, alumni and future agents as they wish.

If there were a star chemistry student, and a company wanted to pay for his accommodations while he finished school, nobody would have a problem with it.

But for some reason it’s not ok for an athlete.