One of BU's top recruiting targets, Jershon Cobb of Georgia, committed to Northwestern...but Cobb listed his final five schools before he made the choice...
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=2&c=901231&RequestedURL=http%3a%2f%2fscouthoops.scout.com%2fa.z%3fs%3d75%26p%3d2%26c%3d901231

he listed...Northwestern, Boston College, Bradley, Cincinnati, and Auburn. Nice to see BU hang in there on top recruits, battling it out with the big boys, but sooner or later, we've gotta won one of those battles!
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BU wanted Kyle Kelm at one point, but a serious foot injury to Kelm caused almost all the recruiting interest to drop off.
This story says...
"Kelm, who took an official visit to Saint Louis last weekend, selected the Panthers over the Billikens, Northern Iowa, North Dakota State, Wisconsin-Green Bay and others.
(all the rest of the offers dried up)
"His recruitment has changed because of his foot, and Milwaukee never waivered in its desire for Kyle"
UW-M may have gotten a steal is Kelm can fully recover.
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=2&c=900924
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GQ has an interesting list...the 20 Most Despicable Coaches (coaches of all venues are on the list from pro sports to T-Ball, and the T-ball guy makes #1 on the list!)

This is definitely NOT a list you want to be on...
Dave Bliss is #11, Woody Hayes is #10, and the only other college basketball coach on the entire list is #6 Bobby Knight.
http://men.style.com/gq/features/slideshow/v/1009COACHES?loop=0&slideshowId=slideshow60821&iphoto=12&nphoto=16&play=false&cnt=1
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On the topic of Bobby Knight....
After the death of Myles Brand, it was curious to see all the venom and hate spewed. And not just from the ignoramuses who do so anonymously on message boards.
The man is dead, so what more do these true idiots want? Here are some comments from the Indiana message board, although many of the worst and most vile were removed:
"he killed the basketball program for 10 years. My memories of him - though mixed - will not be pleasant... I will never forgive him, not for firing Bob Knight; but for hiring Mike Davis"
"Boy did I hate this guy. Destroyed basketball at IU for what looks to be at least 15 years and counting"

...but I guess the responses that troubled me most were the ones the press got from Bob Knight and his son Pat...
Bob Knight didn't give a response....he ducked, dodged, and stayed in hiding and gave no response at all, when a simple word of sympathy would have done a lot to show some class.
Then the Evansville Courier Press reached Bobby's son, Texas Tech coach Pat Knight.
Pat's words were so far in the opposite direction that they really amount to an arrogant, classless slam on a man who just died.
Instead of responding to the interviewer with a simply word of sympathy or a sign of remorse on Brand's passing...
Pat Knight strangely took the opportunity to turn Brand's said death from a horrible disease (pancreatic cancer) as a platform to bash Brand and Indiana University.
Sorry..but any way you look at it, these comments are totally inexcusable. Some who still worship at the Bobby Knight altar have remained silent for fear of angering the zombies in Hoosierland who still worship him, but I will not refrain from calling classless - classless.

Pat Knight's response ...(from the Evansville Courier)
"...it was nice to see IU officials pay tribute to Brand..(Bob) Knight has remained silent, supposedly because he’s been busy traveling. But his son Pat did respond with a statement ...“It’s not like we had a relationship,” said Pat Knight, who was an IU assistant when his dad was fired. “Once someone fires you that’s pretty much it. I still think it was unfair the way he treated my dad..."
...Maybe it’s a good thing Bobby Knight has been unavailable."

--btw, Pat Knight was NOT fired by IU, he quit on his own.

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Here's an article giving some followup on Jamar Smith, now in his final year at University of Southern Indiana, which has had quite a bit of controversy with their long time, successful head coach getting canned for numerous rules violations.

This column reveals some never-before revealed details of the infamous night when Jamar slammed the tree...and opens back up some facts that appear to make some people quite uncomfortable and that they hoped would just go away.
http://www.illinihq.com/news/mens_basketball/2009/09/20/jamar_smith_hes_changed_his_life_hes_become_a_man/

Unfortunately, the writer misses again the opportunity to clear up a couple questions that linger....like who actually obtained the booze how a bunch of underage people got so much liquor, who is legally responsible for delivering it to them or selling it to them, and how was it that so many underage people were drinking on a weeknight and obviously the coaching staff had to know and did nothing whatsoever about it (including numerous other underage basketball players) and in the end... nothing was ever said, nobody else ever got any discipline, and the press looked the other way while Jamar took all the heat.
The article confirms that assistant coach McClain was called shortly after 11PM when Jamar returned to the Savoy, yet the police report says nobody could locate Jamar until nearly 1AM.
All this time everyone was pampering Jamar, recall...there was a nearly dead 18 year old lying in the car in the parking lot....
Sorry - but I still think the coaching staff knows a bunch they have never revealed about who was drinking, how they got the booze, and what was done to protect Jamar while Carlwell lay dying.

remember this comment from the news reports...
"Meanwhile, the university is probing whether any other basketball players or other students knew Smith's teammate, Brian Carlwell, was hurt and failed to act, according to WBBM-Ch. 2 and Champaign TV station WCIA-Ch. 3. Dean of students William Riley told WCIA, "some of the things that have been alleged is that whoever knew about his condition or should have known about it, there's code violation for disregard or extreme disregard for students' safety."The school also will look into reports of underage drinking, or if someone provided alcohol to those underage--which are both are against school code, Riley told the station."

and from the district attorney...
--"A number of other team members were gathered at the apartment, (Champaign County State's Attorney) Julia Rietz said. "

Then from Jamar's lawyer..
"Smith plans to plead not guilty to the charges and will request a jury trial."
Jamar Smith's blood alcohol level was 0.17 (more than double the legal limit, and Jamar was underage), and yet Jamar hid out and didn't go to the hospital until several hours after the accident, so his alcohol leval was likely twice that.

so in the end...why the coverup and the rest of the facts hushed and swept under the carpet...
All the other players were there and were drinking too (on a Tuesday nite after a practice) but got total free passes on this.
The team and the coaches never properly disciplined anyone, and even Jamar was given 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chances and blew them all.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=26882#post26882
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One of the nation's top high school senior just hurt his recruiting prowess BIG TIME.

The #2 ranked point guard in the nation in the Class of 2011, Tony Wroten...a 5-STAR 6-4 PG out of Seattle, was playing for his high school football team and tore his ACL.
He is projected to miss the entire basketball season.
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=9&c=2&cid=901184&nid=3508630&fhn=1&ssf=1&RequestedURL=http%3a%2f%2fscouthoops.scout.com%2fa.z%3fs%3d75%26p%3d9%26c%3d2%26cid%3d901184%26nid%3d3508630%26fhn%3d1