Quote:We don’t need the FBI to notify us that Division I college basketball comes wrapped in stink. And it’s not as Tournament-attached TV experts will go near the malodorous details, even if they arrived certified mail.

But let’s look at how and why New Mexico State made this year’s NCAA Tournament.

In addition to a roster recruited from France, Australia and Trinidad, the state-funded school’s biggest get this season was 6-foot-4 guard Zach Lofton, who has averaged 20 points and five rebounds.

First, Lofton played for three high schools. One closed, the next was near his home in Minnesota, the third an Iowa prep academy that draws aspiring college basketball players from throughout the country. Some call such schools basketball warehouses.

New Mexico State — which lost to Clemson 79-68 in the first round Friday — is Lofton’s fifth college. He’ll be a one-and-done five times.

He began at San Jacinto College, moved to Illinois State, for he which played though was suspended for misconduct, then transferred to Minnesota, which threw him out for misconduct before he even played a game, then it was off to Texas Southern, and now he plays for NMSU.

Lofton is listed as a “senior graduate transfer” — which means he graduated from his last stop, Texas Southern, though his major at Minnesota, the season before, was listed as “undecided.” Fascinating.

Lofton is 25 years and 4 months old.

Though an over-aged senior, at Texas Southern he was named the conference’s “Newcomer of the Year.”

Then the senior Newcomer of the Year, still with one year of eligibility remaining, was invited to play as a “senior graduate transfer” for New Mexico State, a program run by ostensibly responsible adults in the name of an accredited state university.

If his story and how New Mexico State this year made the NCAA Tournament were told on CBS, TruTV, TNT or TBS, the stench would be deafening.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/17/ncaa-athle...cebook_app

A lot of things I want to tell this guy to go do to himself.

(03-18-2018 01:57 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:

https://nypost.com/2018/03/17/ncaa-athle...cebook_app

A lot of things I want to tell this guy to go do to himself.

As I posted on the Aggie Alert board:

If you look at his other commentaries on the "Post" you will see that he is a serial muckracker with a passion against the NCAA. (He has a style so outdated it hasn't been seen much since Randolph Hearst's days.)


It is clear that he wants to cherry pick the details of Lofton's history and make it look as bad as he can. Nowhere does he go into the part of Lofton's history that speaks of a young man who has had to learn how to negotiate a world that he wasn't born into, and that in fact he has seemingly made that transition and become a better man than Muschnik, at least based on what I have seen.

Seems like a lot of work just to play basketball.

Sorry I didn't read any of that. I was too busy looking at your sig