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One and Definitely Under-Done
Apr 22, 2008 - 8:40 AM - by Muskie
The latest installment from one of Xavierhoops.com's feature writers:

One and Definitely Under-done
by wkrq59

Since the NCAA Final Four ended with Kansas' championship, a whole flock of collegiate one-and-dones joined Oden and the Departures—No, it's not a rock band or vocal group, but they will soon be making more money than their contemporaries and former classmates.

Being a faithful poster on Musketeer Madness, my friend and Xavier's, Muskieman, asked his breathern what one-and-dones do to a collegiate program and are they a good or bad?

Are O.J.Mayo, Bill Walker, Derrick Rose, Michael Beasley and Kevin Love hurting college basketball?
I shout a loud YES ! I truly believe one-and-done will subvert the true purpose of a university, to educate.
Student athletes should be students first and athletes second. If the practice is allowed to continue thanks to a sorry NBA rule which requires a player to be age 19 before he can be eligible for the league's draft, it will eventually turn collegiate basketball programs at all but the Ivy League level or at schools which offer no athletic grants-in-aid, into even greater professional basketball farm clubs than they already are (continue reading).
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He Bought Him a Hoops Coach
Apr 19, 2008 - 8:41 PM - by Muskie
The latest installment from one of Xavierhoops.com's feature writers:

He Bought Him a Hoops Coach

By wkrq59


There is a line in Kenneth Grahame's wonderful children's book, “The Wind in the Willows,” that I couldn't get out of my mind, when the subject of T. Boone Pickens buying Travis Ford arose.

J. Thaddeus Toad has sold Toad Manor to a wily weasel and Toad's three friends, Ratty, Moley and McBadger are lamenting Toad's reckless action when they look out the window and one of them gasps, “I say, he bought him a motor car.”

I doubt old T. Boone, may be the best example of Jeff Foxworthy's “you might be a ......,” paid Umass former coach Travis Ford the $5-million to $6-million signing bonus augmented by an annual base salary of $4-million to $5-million he reportedly put on the table when he tried unsuccessfully to lure Bill Self from Kansas.

But you can bet Oklahoma State's version of Daddy Warbucks bought Ford for a helluva lot more than the $400,000 he was allegedly making at UMass (continue reading).
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Farewell to a friend
Apr 14, 2008 - 7:29 PM - by Muskie
The latest installment from one of Xavierhoops.com's feature writers:

Farewell to a friend

by wkrq59

I did not know Brian McCormick. Like many of us on this board and on MM, I had never met him in person. I never had the privilege of buying him a drink at Dana Gardens. I never had the joy of laughing at his stories and swapping tales with him. And I am the lesser for that.

But I truly lost a friend when he died last week.

There are of course no words sufficient for me to eulogize the man I knew only as Pablo, who once told me I was “a voice of reason.” Attempts to console his dad, Dick. and the other members of his immediate and extended family would be woefully inadequate (continue reading).
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