There was a bit of an echo in what befell Barnett, who had also coached successfully at an academically oriented (and therefore problematical) program, Northwestern, before moving to Colorado, where big seasons are expected every year.
According to Coach Mike Montgomery of the Bears, "The fact is that Cal is a very strong school academically, but for some kids that's not a priority.
"Coach K recruited kids who had every intention of staying in school for four years [and] who had a good chance of competing academically at Duke and could meet the standardized test score qualifications for entrance".
The greatest reform the Ivy League could undergo would be to hire only academically minded coaches and not the best and most ambitious young coach on the market, who will probably be tempted away in a few years to a stronger program at a less demanding college.
If there are other minor children, supervise and coach them to excel academically.
But Kendrick-Holmes said he is also firm with players who slip academically or with coaches who are not as organized as they need to be.
At College of the Canyons, 7 30 p.m. Hart played every bit like the No. 1 team in The Times' regional poll in a 49-13 victoverover Quartz Hill last week, but Coach Mike Herrington discovered that an academically ineligible player saw action late in the game and the Indians had to forfeit.
"It's about carrying on the standards and traditions of excellence Coach Paterno set here football-wise and academically," O'Brien said.
Without governance reforms that will put the players' education and safety ahead of the coaches' and schools' money-making priorities, the academically elite Division I colleges' claim to a higher ground is pure hypocrisy.
These investments can include effort, finance, coaching, tutoring and guiding people to improve academically or creatively.
However, the combination of the coaching change and concerns about his ability to qualify academically led him to Niceville.
