Scott Duncan's Parting Gifts: Secondary Violation?

by Tydides on May 16, 2011 9:23 PM PDT

According to the SUC Times, former basketball assistant Scott Duncan, who took a job at Wyoming this offseason, may have committed a secondary violation on his way out by mentioning an unsigned recruit by name:

According to a Sports Illustrated article published this week, Duncan discussed with reporter Bruce Schoenfeld the prospect of landing Jordan Tebbutt, a 6-foot-5 junior swingman from Tualatin, Ore.

"I can't do a lot with Jordan Tebbutt at this tournament — just make sure he sees me at the game, wave to his dad and mom, and that's it," Duncan told the reporter. "Anybody in a UCLA shirt could do it."

Of course, leave it to the SUC Times to comb through these kinds of things while they plead ignorance of years of rampant cheating across town, but the fact remains that this does appear to be a pretty good case for a secondary violation. It's true that there aren't many of us who are too broken up about Duncan moving on, in fact it has been a suggestion many of us have had for a while now as recruiting and player evaluation have been less than stellar recently. However, this kind of thing is just sloppy. Yeah, the rule is stupid, but this is one of the rules everyone knows about in part because it is so stupid, so to be this sloppy and neglectful and impact our program negatively while the perpetrator himself flees to another program puts a rather inglorious cap on his mediocre tenure here.

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Scott Duncan: the gift that keeps giving

The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden

by MexiBruin on May 17, 2011 9:15 AM PDT reply actions

Sounds fishy

Even for the LA fishwrap. Not mentioning a recruit’s name is one of the easiest rules to follow. Either Duncan was saying his name becausehe has an axe to grind with UCLA or the Slimes reporter neglected to put in brackets around the recruit’s name (i.e. Duncan didn’t specifically mention his name but the reporter was able to infer who was being discussed). If the latter, “neglect” probably gives the reporter too much credit.

by GoldenGate93 on May 17, 2011 1:29 PM PDT reply actions

LOL at the SUC times

So Trogans are getting free houses and driving pimped out cars for years, right under their noses, and not a single word other than praising Peter Carroll for “doing it the right way.”

Okaaaaaaaaaay……

by Ajax on May 18, 2011 11:58 AM PDT reply actions

The Sports Illustrated article also included comments from Washington assistant Raphael Chillious about a pair of prospects — Tebbutt and ninth-grader Justin Jackson — whom the Huskies were targeting.

by LA Bruin on May 18, 2011 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions