Kelvin Sampson is Laughing

From ESPN.com

Connecticut potentially committed NCAA rules violations in its recruitment of former guard Nate Miles, Yahoo Sports reported Wednesday.

The Web site reported that according to multiple sources, between 2006 and 2008, Miles was provided with lodging, transportation, restaurant meals and representation by Josh Nochimson, a former UConn student manager who had become a professional sports agent and formerly represented ex-Huskies star Richard Hamilton.

The program may also have exceeded the number of phone calls allowed to Miles under NCAA regulations during its recruiting, Yahoo Sports reported, citing phone records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

The NCAA allows a single phone call per month to a prospect or his family in a player's junior year of high school. Yahoo Sports reported that according to records, UConn coaches exceeded that limit over several months in 2006 and 2007 in the program's recruitment of Miles. In December of 2006 alone, former UConn assistant coach Tom Moore made 27 calls to Miles' guardian and a person Miles referred to as an uncle as well as three calls to Miles.

The Web site also reported that Moore, currently the coach at Quinnipiac, made Nochimson aware that UConn was recruiting Miles and that he knew Nochimson and Miles had talked.

According to records obtained by Yahoo Sports, over a two-year period, five different UConn coaches traded at least 1,565 phone and text messages with Nochimson, including 16 from coach Jim Calhoun.

Nochimson has moved to decertify himself as an agent after Hamilton fired him and accused him of stealing more than $1 million from him, according to the report.

My Quick First Take: I have no problem with them taking care of Nate Miles. He was essentially a homeless kid who went to at least 5 different high schools and had to support the family his parents refused to.
But as a program we are fucked. This is the kind of stuff that gets you serious penalties - look at Indiana this year. Worse it gives fuel for all those Calhoun haters and it's gonna be front page news for some time. At least Tom Moore seems to have been a big part of this and he's gone. So thanks for that, but this looks BAD. even i cant sugarcoat this one. Just when i start feeling great about this team, this happens. Forget this year, we could be in serious trouble for the next 2-3 years if all charge are as true and bad as they sound.