re: LSU Basketball needs a big name coach-hire Tim Floyd.

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Probation with Floyd? Look up the facts. He was CLEARED by NCAA. No show cause penalty either for UTEP. The problem was the AD who had no institutional control. The NCAA even ok'd Mayo going to USC.

Old? Did u see Arizona's run last year? Who led the team? Floyd's signees who the USC AD released and let them go to a school in same conference? Derrick Williams, Momo Jones, and Solomon Hill were Floyd signees. Look it up.

In the last 6 years, "old Floyd" has had 1st round draft picks in Nick Young, O.J. Mayo, DeMar DeRozan, Taj Gibson, Nicola Vucevic, and you could count Williams who signed before the AD let him go to Arizona. Brandon Jennings committed before an Arizona booster bought his mom a house and he was a 1st round pick. Floyd also had 1st pick in Ervin Johnson, Kelvin Cato, etc. Floyd also had Nick Collison and Kirk Hinrich committed to ISU before he left for the Bulls. They were also 1st rounders.

In Floyd's 30 something years of coaching, the only time anyone has claimed wrongdoing was by that convicted felon who mentioned the Mayo "incident" although he said on ESPN that he knew of no wrongdoing with the program before he tried to get a book deal and needed a story. The NCAA thought so much of the "incident" that it wasn't mentioned in the 100+ page report.

He wasn't hired 3 times by the NBA because he couldn't X and O either. You can bet Gathers and Felix wouldn't have gotten away. He has top 100 recruits Twymond Howard and Chris Washburn signed for next year and #1 center Norvel Pelle has Floyd in his final 5. If you could have the #1 recruiting class in Ames, Iowa, and can still get top 100 guys to come to El Paso, what do u think he'd do at LSU?

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