SJU handed out plentyyyyyy of package deals the last 5 years:
-Marco Bourgeault to get Orlando Sanchez
-Felix Balamou to get Chris Obekpa
-Max Hooper to keep Jakarr Sampson strong
-Had a verbal commitment from Dom Pointer's HS teammate, Dwight Meikle
Also remember that we had a former staff member rendezvousing in a Greenburgh parking lot to pick up a fake academic transcript
And when 100 college basketball coaches were polled on the dirtiest recruitments of the past decade, we had 4 of our committments appear on this list of only 24 total players (Obekpa, Jakarr, Norvel Pelle and Jevon Thomas).
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/19865011/critical-coaches-which-player-had-the-dirtiest-recruitment
So those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, particularly those that choose to defend the former coach that the all the above happened under
I personally don't really care that much what coaches do to get players, especially if its our coaches. Just be smart enough to not get caught or embarrass the program.
First off I don't have any issue with any of this but to compare a package deal with multiple players with a coach hiring is nonsense.
You're right... the difference is the package deal with Tiny worked out whereas the package deals for our players didn't.
Just read the article that you gave the link for. It's gibberish. And it 's from the same outlet that said that package deal's for coaches players were totally legal. They got no cred. CBS.com. What a two bit article, form some two bit .com.. I'm surprised that their parent company even allows them to use the name CBS in their name. We don't even know who these coaches were or even what the accusations were. And also, in the article itself it even says that just because someone made accusations, it doesn't make them true. That's their disclaimer. We know exactly what Willard did. And we know who reported it. Not some anonymous coach. We have Tiny himself saying he asked Lavin why STJ didn't have a spot for him on their staff. We knew what happened. It was a package deal. THAT'S ILLEGAL! Now what even are the accusations against Jak and the others? We don't even know. Just some vague criticism by some anonymous source. Garbage. Like the Inside Sports article from the mid 80's. "SJU players are paid from $600-1,000", said the anonymous source. And they were allowed to be paid $617. Real good reporting. The NCAA didn't investigate because they were allowed to be paid $617 a month.
I brought up the Jarvis staff cheating. Never meant to say that STJ never cheated because we did. That was brought to light as it should have been. If you break the rules there has to be consequences. ( There was a female soccer player that got suspended for washing her car from the faucet on the back of her gym. I think she was due a warning or a letter of reprimand. But she got suspended. If she got suspended anybody could. As FoJ said, look at what gets penalized and this doesn't?).