(Update: You have to check out the post and, more importantly, the comments at deadspin.com. Scroll down and read the feedback and I dare you not to laugh.)
Sorry for the delay. I was on the phone with Kunta Kinta. He will not be asked to testify in WVU v. Rodriguez. A few basketball notes before we jump into the Feedback with both feet.
> Point guard Joe Mazzulla won’t be playing football for WVU. “I’ve got a new role on the team coming up next year and I don’t want any distractions as I prepare for it. It’s a great compliment, though,” he said. Mazzulla has never put on shoulder pads before, let alone play the sport, but that didn’t keep Bill Stewart from dreaming.Â
> Cam Thoroughman had his oft-dislocated left kneecap surgically repaired earlier this week and he was told there’s a 90-percent chance it’ll never pop out again. If you’re not high on Cam, remember you never really saw him at his best. He couldn’t string together the amount of practices he needed to really get in a groove and gain confidence in his abilities, to say nothing of his knee. He’ll rehab most of the summer and should be good to go well before the start of preseason practice.
> Recruit Kevin Jones is on PARADE magazine’s All-America team. The Mount Vernon, N.Y., native made the fourth team.
>  Devin Ebanks, a touted small forward prospect who is in recruiting limbo after all that’s happened at Indiana, will visit WVU next weekend. Let’s talk hypothetically, shall we? WVU has one scholarship left and wants and maybe even needs a post presence. Quite clearly, the scholarship is to be used to fill a void. If you’ve watched him play, you’ll agree Ebanks is less Jamie Smalligan and more — uh oh — Joe Alexander. Then again, the one-remaining-scholarship fact exists under the assumption the nine underclassmen on scholarship all come back next year. Stay tuned…
Onto the show. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, some of you could be rock stars.
Bill said:
If RR wins this case, then over 2 centuries of tested contract law are moot and void.
Where else can we begin? I’m telling you, the motions hearing was damned entertaining yesterday, though through all the laughs and gasps and at times difficult attempts to see and consider both sides, I just cannot shake the feeling Rodriguez has no chance and that he’s in it to earn a discount. His argument is just very thin when stacked next to thick legal books. Just for the heck of it, I wonder if he might throw out an offer — $3 million … on a Beilein-like payment plan? — to see what WVU says. Might WVU accept? You never know. Then again, I also don’t believe WVU is trembling in the face of Team Rodriguez’s threatening tone about the truth being known once President Mike Garrison tells his side of the story. I thought what was most telling was WVU’s “who cares?” attitude when it “lost” the motion to dismiss Rodriguez’s counterclaim. In fact, WVU lawyer Tom Flaherty mentioned the interest continues to grow the longer this continues.
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