Rick Majerus hires known cheater Paul Biancardi as assistant coach

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http://slubillikens.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/100107aaa.html

Paul Biancardi was an assistant under Jim O'Brien (who also was fired) at Ohio State when numerous major NCAA violations were uncovered including cash gifts to players, altered grades, and other violations. He had already taken the head coaching position at Wright State when these violations at Ohio State surfaced, and the NCAA placed sanctions on him that would have hurt Wright State. So he stepped down. He has spent the last year as a recruiting consultant for ESPN.

Here are some of the more factual articles about this scandal at Ohio State that outline some of the malicious cheating violations that Biancardi was involved in that the St. Louis University article conveniently fails to mention..--
http://asp.usatoday.com/community/tags/topic.aspx?req=tag&tag=Kathleen Salyers

 

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A couple other threads on Biancardi. Proof that even if you are caught cheating in this industry, all it does is prove you are a valuable guy to hire again in the future!

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=36503&highlight=biancardi#post36503
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=38202&highlight=biancardi#post38202

 

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Does Biancardi not deserve another chance?

 

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I never said he doesn't and he certainly deserves the chance and Majerus is fully entitled to choose who he wants.
But the guy has a track record, and everything noted is pretty strongly backed up by facts and references.
Even some of the record breaking cheaters have moved on and gotten new jobs - sometimes really high paying ones (such as Kelvin Sampson)...that's the way college basketball is. Cheating doesn't matter but winning does.
In all the time I have posted those links on Biancardi, not one person has raised even one dispute about any of the facts stated, he did get caught blatantly cheating and giving money to lure recruits to Ohio State. Then he lied and covered up the evidence to try to hide it from the NCAA investigators.

The words spoken by Royce Waltman when he was fired come to mind when he made reference to how those caught cheating will always get another job, but those found losing have trouble getting rehired.