College coaches expect and receive saint treatment--NY Post

• Expanding on Rick Pitino story, Rutgers coach Vivian Stringer among alleged saints:

NY Post: "For selective indignation and high farce, there are no people quite like big-time college coaches. Most can say/do anything because they have been conditioned to do so. Most come to expect to be surrounded by those who are expected, if not ordered, to play along, media included....

• Twenty years ago, Mike Gottfried, now an ESPN analyst, was Pitt's head coach when his star running back, the late Craig (Ironhead) Heyward, was ruled ineligible for having signed with an agent.

Sounded good. But no one had seen Heyward in a class for two consecutive semesters....

• When Jimmy Johnson, now a Fox football analyst...was the head coach at Oklahoma State, he had a star defensive lineman, Dexter Manley, who was able to matriculate every year to become a senior, a senior in college.

That was remarkable given that Manley, as he later revealed, could neither read nor write....

• More recently, Don Imus turned Rutgers women's basketball coach C.
• Vivian Stringer into an overnight saint.

The media weren't interested in the Shalica Hurns story. In 2002, Stringer recruited Hurns to RU though

• she had been thrown out of two colleges for criminal conduct.

• After stabbing, binding and for hours torturing her roommate, another RU female athlete,

Hurns was convicted of assault and tossed out of Rutgers.

• Stringer defiantly refused to accept responsibility for recruiting Hurns."...

from NY Post column by Phil Mushnick, "Righteous Rick, Brethren Living in Fantasy World," 8/30/09

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