NCAA President Proposes That Schools Be Allowed to Directly Pay Players

[paulxu]

Those are probably good questions, for which I have no ready answers.
In the article, many coaches speak quite highly of him.

“Cliff isn’t a good person; he’s a great person,” said Krzyzewski, who competed against Ellis for 10 seasons while he was at Clemson."

[GoMuskies]

Cliff was 177-128 at Clemson. 56-90 in ACC play. I bet Coach K did love the guy!

He sure got it going at Auburn briefly. They were really good and really fun to watch for a year or two.

[paulxu]

So you're saying Clemson was an ACC buy game?

[XUGRAD80]

Didn't Cliff Elllis cheat his ass off at Auburn?

I can't read the article, but I know Coastal is pretty bad this year. Why couldn't Cliff stick it out through March?

College sports today, with the recruiting cycles and the transfer portal, and all the rest are a 365 day “season”. It never ends, it just moves from one part of the year to another. Sometimes you realize it’s just time and no sense in putting it off any longer. He retired the day after his 78th birthday.

[xubrew]

Didn't Cliff Elllis cheat his ass off at Auburn?

I can't read the article, but I know Coastal is pretty bad this year. Why couldn't Cliff stick it out through March?

Cliff was 177-128 at Clemson. 56-90 in ACC play. I bet Coach K did love the guy!

He sure got it going at Auburn briefly. They were really good and really fun to watch for a year or two.

Yeah, what did happen??

I don't remember the specifics, but I know there was about a two year period where Auburn was insanely good and a bit of a national phenomenon. Not quite what UNLV was or what the Fab Five were, but probably the coolest team in college hoops at the time. It was the Doctors of Dunk or Phi Slamma Jamma 20 years later.

Then, right before the NCAA Tournament one year, several players were declared ineligible by the NCAA. Like...literally right at the end of the regular season. And, then it was over. It was like it never happened. People pretty much went back to not even remembering that Auburn had a team until Bruce Pearl got there.

I don't know what happened or what Cliff Ellis's role was in it. I just knew that all of a sudden all these great athletes were gone.