Jim Harrick FIRED at UGA


Originally posted by GSUperTiger
As a Ramblin Wreck from Georgia Tech, I will not shed a tear for UGA.
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To Hell with Georgia!

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ATHENS -- University of Georgia President Michael Adams and athletics director Vince Dooley on Monday sought to quell a growing NCAA investigation of the school's men's basketball program by suspending head coach Jim Harrick with pay, declaring two starting players ineligible because of academic fraud and banning the Bulldogs from playing in the Southeastern Conference and NCAA tournaments.

Georgia players, brokenhearted and angry, assembled Monday night outside Adams' office on North Campus, demanding an explanation from the university president. They were not able to see Adams there, so they went to his home on Prince Avenue.

Adams called campus police when the players arrived, and the police persuaded Adams to meet with the players on the front lawn of his home. His response apparently only aggravated the situation, prompting star forward Jarvis Hayes, a junior, to declare that he will leave school early and enter the NBA draft.

"[Adams] spoke to us," Hayes said. "He told us, 'We rejoice as a team. We suffer as a team.' He's not suffering. I think he did it to save his own job."

The announcement stunned the Bulldogs players, who had been scheduled to leave for the SEC Tournament in New Orleans on Wednesday, and had seemed assured of receiving a bid to the NCAA Tournament on Sunday.

Instead, their season is over.

Missing the tournaments will cost the UGA athletics program hundreds of thousands of dollars, Georgia's share of the millions distributed to SEC teams. The school said Monday night it will offer fans a refund for SEC Tournament tickets purchased through the school.

"I imagine that this is as bad as it gets," Dooley said.

Hayes, the second-leading scorer in the SEC this season, said the team is being unfairly punished for the actions of a few individuals.

"They took it from us," Hayes said. "They panicked and it was a mistake they made by hiring a basketball coach to teach a basketball class five days before the semester started," he said, referring to the class taught by Harrick's son, Jim Harrick Jr., that led to the allegations of academic fraud.

Hayes said the players met with Harrick at his home in Athens on Monday night.

"He was devastated," Hayes said.

The school's decision capped almost two weeks of controversy that followed allegations by former player Tony Cole that Harrick and his son, the assistant coach, had provided him with improper benefits and helped him commit academic fraud.

The scandal stretched from the University of Rhode Island, where Harrick formerly coached, to Baton Rouge, La., where Cole now lives. Harrick Jr. was suspended last week, and the school announced his contract would not be renewed.

Dooley said the decision to bar the team from postseason play was based on new evidence that two players -- forward Chris Daniels and point guard Rashad Wright -- and Harrick Jr. were involved in academic fraud.

The university declared Daniels and Wright ineligible academically, but Dooley said the school would later appeal to the NCAA to reinstate the players.

"We've found further information that now confirms that there was academic fraud in that course," Dooley said.

There's no evidence that Harrick knew what took place, Dooley said, but "Coach Harrick has the ultimate responsibility for the program."

Harrick will be paid during his suspension, Dooley said. He has three years remaining on a contract that pays him $700,000 a season: $600,000 in base salary and TV/radio compensation and a $100,000 longevity bonus.

Harrick didn't return telephone calls from reporters Monday night. Harrick Jr. hasn't commented publicly throughout the investigation.

Dooley and SEC commissioner Mike Slive said Georgia won't face the possibility of having to forfeit games for playing ineligible players. "The concerns we had were with future eligibility," Dooley said.

Daniels, Wright and Cole received grades of "A" in a physical education course taught by Harrick Jr. during the fall semester 2001, even though the school says the players never attended class or completed work in the course. The basketball players were among 31 students in the class, Dooley said, and every one of the students received an "A," including three Georgia football players.

Daniels and Wright were questioned by UGA and NCAA investigators a week ago about their attendance in the class.

Meanwhile, Harrick's future at the school seems tenuous. His son was fired last week by the university after Cole accused Harrick Jr. of sending him $300 to pay a phone bill, paying more than $1,000 in hotel bills for Cole in Athens and arranging for someone else to complete Cole's junior college correspondence courses before he enrolled at UGA.

Over the past week, allegations surfaced in Rhode Island that Harrick had influenced or changed grades for players, arranged for team managers to write papers for players and arranged for players to get cars, housing and money from Rhode Island boosters. Harrick coached at Rhode Island in 1997-99.

Harrick Jr. also is accused of unethical conduct -- "a cardinal sin," Dooley said.

"We're not talking about allegations," Dooley said. "We're talking about findings of the most serious nature. . . . There are several examples of unethical conduct, and one of them is not telling the truth."

Harrick has denied any wrongdoing since Cole went public with his allegations on Feb. 27. Harrick, 64, is one of only three coaches -- Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton and former Georgia State coach Lefty Driesell are the others -- to take four schools to the NCAA tournament. Harrick has a 470-235 record in 23 seasons and led UCLA to the 1995 national championship.

Adams was vice president at Pepperdine when Harrick coached there and recommended him to Dooley when Georgia was looking for a coach in 1999.

When Harrick was hired, both he and Adams were criticized, mainly because Harrick had been fired by UCLA for lying on expense reports and had a reputation for taking players who were academic risks.

When Harrick wanted to hire his son in 2001, Adams allowed the athletics department to work around the State University System's policy against nepotism.

On Monday, NCAA President Myles Brand and the SEC's Slive commended UGA officials for their actions.

"I want to compliment President Mike Adams for his leadership and his rapid, strong response to the situation in the face of tremendous pressure," Brand said in a statement. "I think we are starting to see a very important trend. I think the system is working."

Said Slive: "I respect and support what they've done. They've done what they believe is in the best interest of the university."

But the manner in which it was handled left some players unhappy.

"[Adams] didn't say anything to us [before the decision was made]. That's unfair," said junior forward Damien Wilkins, who sat alone on a couch in the basketball office and cried after the announcement. "It's not only unprofessional, it's unfair. He didn't come to us, he went to you guys [the news media] first."

Adams said the school's investigation is far from over.

"We simply don't know enough yet," the university president said.
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Like I said, Adams and Dooley don't have a backbone at all. Didn't even have the balls to tell the players. And then he called the fuzz on them. :smh:
Still LMAO@that horrible press conference they held, all the mumbling and stuttering was funny as L.


and GSupe,
Yech will never get the level of support that uga does. Not even in yech's own backyard.
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I said after the story broke on ESPN, and Harrick, Jr. was let go, that Daddy Harrick would soon follow.

Someone said it best on another post on this thread. Harrick will be in the ESPN or CBS studios, or on the sidelines with color commentary next year. Where the Hell will Cole be, if not jail?
 
I thought about mentioning this yesterday. But after a good night's sleep, I will do it now.

This maybe worse than the Jan Kemp suit against the athletic department from 1987. That was very bad.
 
EB,
I can understand what you're saying, but you also got to remember that Kemp stuff was football related, this is bball.
Football will always be top dog at uga

If a football player had came out with the same allegations Cole did a week or so before the sec football championship game, no way, no how would uga have withdrawn from that game.

It'll be interesting to see just how far uga wanna dig into this. It won't be too hard to find a whole lotta dirt.
Let's not kid ourselves into thinking that Harrick Jr. was the only instructor "giving" out grades to athletes.
I'm sure the athletes there talk to each other and know which courses they can "get" an easy A. Wouldn't be too surprising if some football players were "in" the same class that Cole, Daniels, and Wright were "in".

But UGA is no different from other schools in "giving" out grades.
 
I understand and know the football is number one at UGA. But while they suffered for a couple of years after Jan Kemp, they got over it (10-2 record in 1992). I think that some other athletes besides football players were included but can't remember.

But my last post was just a feeling that I have. I will have and see.

It would not surprise me if this is bigger than the basketball program, and I know that it is bigger than UGA or Fresno State another school facing allegations. But expect a lot of UGA football players to keep their mouths shut. Some Georgia Bulldog fans are praying that this does not get to the football program.

Thinking to myself......

.....I hope UGA does not get Bobby Knight.
 
Blame is being placed in the wrong areas.

WE are at fault. By we, I mean society. We allow athletes to get away with all kinds of things from an early age, and when that happens, they expect it later. That's why the Cecil Collins' and Mike Tysons are out there.

Academic fraud is out there, but it is NOT at every school. UGA should be allowed to play in the SEC and NCAA tourneys this year, but they should be banned next year. This is for the kids who DIDN'T cheat; the seniors can play in front of their moms for the last time, and the underclassmen can transfer with impunity.

Harrick won't coach college ball again. He'll become more obscure than Ned Fowler (who took the heat for Hot Rod).
 
Proof that they don't care...

a dayum bit about the players. Adams and Dooley are looking out for their own azzes. Not sure if Dooley is a culprit because Harrick was really Adam's boy and got hired by him. Although Harrick has cheated and broken rules everywhere he goes, Adams hired his friend anyway.

Now, of course some folk are gonna say: "See what Tony Cole did to his teammates". But this is bigger than Tony Cole... It shows how no one really cares about the players but how they rather go into damage control to save their reputation and jobs.

BTW===> I told yall, Cole wasn't lying. But if he's smart, I wouldn't write anymore checks in Georgia.
 
Tony's not "my boy", he's a kid that I know fairly well and who I can be cordial with. He's never caused me any stress so I have no reason to feel the need to persecute him. Nor do I feel the need to justify what he did or didn't do. I just understand!

I know about the check in Georgia. I'm sure there have been a lot of us who bounced a rent check...however, I'm sure most of us were smart enuff to take care of it before a warrant got issued (I hope so anyway).

Whether Cole was right or wrong, the stupid person in this case was Jim Harrick. Either that or arrogant. He didn't learn anything from his days at UCLA and RI. If you're gonna cheat, don't leave a trail.
 
Originally posted by mighty hornet


and GSupe,
Yech will never get the level of support that uga does. Not even in yech's own backyard.
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Tech's enrollment is about half of UGA; and far more diverse. UGA will never have the academic integrity/scruples of the Ramblin Wreck. Besides, Tech has a better athletic program than UGA with higher academic standards (4 national and 15 conference titles). UGA can not compete with Tech in anything with the exception of football. :) Are you aware Tech's opponent in the second game of the footbal season?
 
LMAO
Man, Yech bout to get a big beatdown again. That's why they stopped playing before! Yech was tired of gettin whooped. You better hope it's in Atl. And it may at least be halfway respectable.

As far as UGA, they're getting drug through the mud now. LOL
Especially Adams!

<font size=1>I know ole jealous Yech is enjoying it</font>
 



The lesson from this story is don't give anyone special favors. If they starving, need money to get home cause of a death of in the family, money for food, if the NCAA don't give a FLYING RED FUGG so why should you! Fugg'em... let them starve, let them flunk classes, it's not your problem. But on the other hand the owners of ABC,CBS AND ESPN are getting rich off the talents of these players. These dumb ass players have'nt caught on to the game yet. Man... every dayum prime time college team in the nation is doing something that they don't suppose to be doing, they just have'nt got caught, or the players of those schools know how to play the game and it's not basketball.
 
OK, I've got a simple question....

Was Harrick fired or suspended. On ESPN's Pardon the Interruption yesterday, Tony and Mike talked with Digger Phelps, and they didn't mention he was fired, just suspended. Did something happen last night? (Tuesday night). Last I heard, he had been suspended with pay......

What's the dill pickle......

:smh:
 
Originally posted by pbla
The lesson from this story is don't give anyone special favors. If they starving, need money to get home cause of a death of in the family, money for food, if the NCAA don't give a FLYING RED FUGG so why should you! Fugg'em... let them starve, let them flunk classes, it's not your problem. But on the other hand the owners of ABC,CBS AND ESPN are getting rich off the talents of these players. These dumb ass players have'nt caught on to the game yet. Man... every dayum prime time college team in the nation is doing something that they don't suppose to be doing, they just have'nt got caught, or the players of those schools know how to play the game and it's not basketball.
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Considering the time that the coaches demand by the players, players will have to be more active about their lives as college athletes. Some coaches would not want their players to work during the summer. Remember. Most players we see on TV will not play in the pros.
 
Taylor-Made,
The "suspension" is just a play on words right now. Just as soon as UGA gets enough evidence, they will offfically fire Harrick. But he is as good as gone. Everybody knows that
Still smh @uga President Adams for saying that Harrick is still employed there and can come into his office to use the phone, but thats all he can do.

Things are beyond ugly at uga now.


[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 3/12/03 ]

Shock turns to gloom at UGA


By CHIP TOWERS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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ATHENS -- Suspended University of Georgia men's basketball coach Jim Harrick said Tuesday he was "crushed, absolutely crushed" about his players not being allowed to take part in the Southeastern Conference and NCAA tournaments.

The school canceled the rest of its season, declared two players ineligible and suspened Harrick with pay Monday after finding academic fraud and unethical conduct in Harrick's program.

Harrick said he doesn't know how he'll respond.

"I'm just waiting to see what happens next," he said.

On Tuesday, as shock from Monday's announcements gave way to gloom on the UGA campus:

? Lawyers for the university and for former UGA player Tony Cole said Cole spoke with NCAA investigators Monday in Baton Rouge, La.

The interview came less than two weeks after Cole's allegations first called attention to potential rules violations at Georgia.

Cole refused to allow the university's investigators to sit in on his interview with the NCAA.

"He's not talking to UGA at all," said Cole's lawyer, Steve Sadow of Atlanta. "He's not going to sit down and talk to some investigator from UGA who works for somebody who was trying to get him kicked out of school last year."

Athens lawyer Ed Tolley, who is heading the school's investigation, said the session was tape-recorded and NCAA officials briefed UGA's investigators about their findings.

Sadow said Cole told the NCAA what he previously told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and ESPN: that Harrick and assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr. paid his bills and arranged for him to get credit for course work he didn't do.

? A University of Rhode Island booster said he will meet today with NCAA and UGA investigators. Steve Macchioni says he and fellow Rhode Island booster Charlie Tapalian gave Harrick Jr. $300 that Harrick Jr. wired to Cole.

"I told [the investigators] the $300 is all I could talk about," Macchioni said. "I'm surprised they're even bothering. There's so much going on down there right now."

? University System Chancellor Thomas Meredith said he supports UGA president Michael Adams' handling of the scandal and that Adams' job is "absolutely not in jeopardy."

? Junior forward Jarvis Hayes announced at a late-afternoon news conference that, in light of recent events, he would declare himself eligible for the NBA draft in June.

? Georgia's athletics department apologized to the men's basketball players for not telling them their season had been canceled. The players learned the news Monday from news media reports. The athletics department statement blamed the men's basketball staff for not telling the players.

? Harrick spent most of the day holed up in his west Athens house with his wife, Sally, as various family members and friends came by to visit. Harrick referred all questions about the ongoing investigation to his lawyer.

"I'm not talking to anybody about anything," Harrick said, his voice low and slightly hoarse. "I told [lawyer] Dennis Coleman to call you, and he will."

Coleman did not return several phone messages left by reporters Tuesday.

? Sadow ripped the university for canceling the rest of its season and said the decision was motivated by money. The school will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from not playing in the tournaments, but Sadow said the school would have lost that money anyway once the SEC and the NCAA found wrongdoing in Georgia's athletics department. Not playing, Sadow said, saves the school its travel expenses.

Dooley bristled at that assertion.

"The decisions we made were not financially motivated," Dooley said. "I can only tell you that every decision we have made, we were trying only to do what is right. I feel good about the decisions we have made despite the fact they were difficult decisions."
 
Originally posted by mighty hornet
Taylor-Made,
The "suspension" is just a play on words right now. Just as soon as UGA gets enough evidence, they will offfically fire Harrick. But he is as good as gone. Everybody knows that
Still smh @uga President Adams for saying that Harrick is still employed there and can come into his office to use the phone, but thats all he can do.

Things are beyond ugly at uga now.
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A'ight bruh.....

Thanks for the info, Mitey Bee....:tup:tup:
 
Originally posted by MikeBigg
Tony's not "my boy", he's a kid that I know fairly well and who I can be cordial with. He's never caused me any stress so I have no reason to feel the need to persecute him. Nor do I feel the need to justify what he did or didn't do. I just understand!

I know about the check in Georgia. I'm sure there have been a lot of us who bounced a rent check...however, I'm sure most of us were smart enuff to take care of it before a warrant got issued (I hope so anyway).

Whether Cole was right or wrong, the stupid person in this case was Jim Harrick. Either that or arrogant. He didn't learn anything from his days at UCLA and RI. If you're gonna cheat, don't leave a trail.
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The fact remains that Tony Cole was a b*tch who didn't care how many of his friends on the team got hurt by this, he only cared about himself and getting Harrick just like stated before Harrick will have a job in a year and Cole will still be at his momma house talking about how the man took him down. :mrt:
 
Originally posted by JSU*Toi



The fact remains that Tony Cole was a b*tch who didn't care how many of his friends on the team got hurt by this, he only cared about himself and getting Harrick just like stated before Harrick will have a job in a year and Cole will still be at his momma house talking about how the man took him down. :mrt:
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Case Close!!:nod2:
 
'I don't feel anything'
Cole not remorseful for actions that did in Harricks
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/college/news/2003/03/13/cole_harrick_ap

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Tony Cole doesn't feel sorry his allegations have led to the suspension of his former head coach, Jim Harrick, and the firing of Harrick's son, who was an assistant.
"I don't feel anything either way about the situations with the Harricks," Cole said in an interview with the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
"[Initially] Jim Harrick Jr. was suspended with pay. And Coach Harrick, if he is fired, he'll receive the million dollars or so left on his contract. But look what they did to me."
It was his first public comment since Georgia suspended Jim Harrick Sr., fired his son, and pulled out of the SEC or NCAA tournaments. A university investigation is continuing.
"I have a life to live, too," Cole said. "If I had not pursued this, everybody would say, 'Harrick's not going to take any crap. You see what he did to Tony Cole.' But I wasn't going to let him walk over me. It wasn't right. I didn't do anything."
The Times-Picayune said Cole has been in seclusion in his home town of Baton Rouge since the controversy broke out about a week ago. Attempts by The Associated Press to locate him were unsuccessful.
In January 2002, Georgia suspended Cole, starting forward Steve Thomas and football player Brandon Williams while university police investigated a report that a female student was raped in Cole's dorm room. Williams was acquitted of rape and assault charges in August. Charges against Cole and Thomas were dismissed following the acquittal. The woman later admitted having consensual sex with Cole, according to the police complaint.
Thomas and Williams were allowed back on their teams, their run-ins with the law seen as isolated incidents. Cole found out in September that he would not be allowed back.
Cole said he believed Harrick used him when he needed him, then abandoned him.
"All they had to do was let me play my last year," Cole said. "To me, they brought this on themselves. They are the ones who brought me up here, then they didn't give me any support when all of that stuff broke. They treated me like I was guilty. Right after the incident happened, [Harrick] wanted me to transfer instead of sticking by me to see what happened."
Cole's accusations against Georgia were first made in an interview with ESPN, when he accused Harrick Jr., a Georgia assistant coach, of paying bills for him, giving him an "A" in a class he never attended and arranging to have schoolwork done for him. Harrick Jr. was suspended the next day, then fired less than a week later.
A university investigation confirmed academic fraud, and two players who had taken the same class Cole did were declared academically ineligible.
Cole refused to attend the course taught by Harrick Jr., saying it was senseless to go to a class in which he was assured of getting an "A."
"Why should I go to a class about basketball when I already go to practice?" said Cole, who played in 16 games as a junior.
And Cole acknowledged he was not one to attend film sessions.
"I know what I did [in games]; I keep it in my head," he said. "I know what I can do. I'm not the type to go and talk to the coach. After practice, if it's beneficial to me, I'll go and talk to him. But I'm not going to kiss ass. I came here to play basketball and study. I do what I need to do [academically], go to practice, and that's it."
Cole admits that he gets in his fair share of troublesome situations.
He was kicked out of the Community College of Rhode Island after he was accused of groping two female students. The women filed a lawsuit, which was later dropped.
"Trouble may follow me, but I have success wherever I go. I can't blame anyone for my situations, but my upbringing has always been in the 'Hood," said Cole, who lived with various relatives and in foster homes after his mother was institutionalized with mental illness when he was 7.
"There's nothing that's going to change me. I know I'm intelligent. I'm always trying to gain knowledge, wisdom. If you ask me, I never was supposed to get this far."
 
Originally posted by Jafus (Thinker)

"There's nothing that's going to change me. I know I'm intelligent. I'm always trying to gain knowledge, wisdom. If you ask me, I never was supposed to get this far."
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This kid needs help in the worst way. The problem is, who is going to help him? It seems he has stabbed everyone that has tried to help him in the back.
 
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