News out of St. Louis...
Rick Majerus is about to hire his final assistant.....it is rumored to be......
Paul Biancardi.....
http://www.bradleyfans.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=54842#54842
Biancardi was intimately involved and guilty in all the corruption and filth that went on at Ohio State and caused previous coach Jim O'Brien to get canned and the entire coaching staff lost their jobs.
Even after Biancardi went on to coach at Wright State, the NCAA findings of guilt and the penalties caused him to leave there and to become essentially unemployable. He was found to have maliciously violated the impermissable benefits rules repeatedly, and to the tune of thousands of dollars worth of $$ and "services".
Saint Louis even has to appeal to the NCAA just to interview Biancardi for the spot, as he is still under sanctions...but apparently Majerus feels he needs this kind of recruiter and assistant that was giving cash, free living arrangements, and even free nanny services and "female companionship services" to the recruits that they felt were going to get them to the next level at Ohio State.
I should be shocked that Majerus would hire this guy..but I guess very little really ever shocks me any more in the field of college basketball.
"Biancardi ran afoul of the NCAA while an assistant at Ohio State, but reformed his ways, and is a humbled guy, looking to rebuild his career. Biancardi recently met with NCAA officials, and the NCAA told SLU the school is free and clear to hire him. Majerus also discussed Biancardi with Biondi, who didn???‚¬?„?t raise any objections. I don???‚¬?„?t know if Biancardi???‚¬?„?s hiring is official yet, but it was certainly headed that way..."
http://www.stltoday.com/blogs/sports-bernies-extra-points/2007/07/just-a-song-before-i-go