Kim English
- Thread starter Piratz
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I always seem to like the Providence coach
“Hi Kim? It’s Coach Sha. How bout those Knicks, right? Anywho, when you get a chance, can you ask Bryce Hopkins if he wants to play at Seton Hall next year? Hope the family is well. Thanks”. Lol.
I bet Shaheen was thinking the same as all those calls started coming in from various coaches/coaching staffs to Kadary since at least last November.
i've really dig everything kim english says or does lately.
Whatever Ed Cooley thinks he is, Kim English actually is.
And Sha never contacted another teams player prematurely?
He was punished for it, which must make the current free-for-all even more galling to him. But maybe he just made friends with player's mother. Might not have actually done anything dishonest, just against the rules.
It was a funny diatribe by English, but don’t think for a second he and every other high major staff isn’t doing and hasn’t done some version of this stuff. There are no ivory towers anymore, and there really never were.
I would like to think some still have integrity.
I don’t think it’s a matter of integrity. There are no rules anymore essentially. You can still have integrity on how you mentor, teach, and develop these young kids as a coach, while at the same time engaging in the same recruiting process that everyone does these days.
I didn’t think Sha had any less integrity when he got caught breaking the recruiting rules. He was an assistant trying to get players because that’s what most assistants do and how they show value.
Let’s not be naive. Kids are being contacted well before the season ends and the portal opens. Handlers want to get paid and coaches will use any back channel available. With no rules and little punishment it’s kill or be killed.
I’d be highly skeptical that everything fell into place with Middleton after he entered the portal.
Hypocrisy or not, like the message is out there.
I’m old enough to remember when recruiting violations were a thing.
The rules stink, but integrity and loyalty still exist.
I thought it was a great hire the day they announced it. Providence got it done. He's gonna improve too and has a lot of NIL support.
The irony of PC is that they always seem to have a "keeper" who then leaves to go elsewhere. That's part of the PC coaching complex, which is very real. The documentary that was recently done about Cooley's departure gets into this with fan commentary. Go through their history, this is a program that had Pitino, Barnes, Gillen who all left to go to the NBA or other high major programs, and then of course Ed Cooley was viewed as the ultimate "keeper" long term, and we know what happened there.
