Dirtiest college hoops coaches ever...

I don't think Sampson belongs on this list simply because making too many phone calls ain't nearly as nefarious a crime as paying players, perpetrating academic fraud, and other shit that so many coaches have been busted for over the years. But a couple names that could be there:

--Clem Haskins: oversaw a mammoth system of academic fraud and cheating at Minnesota.

--Jim O'Brien: directly paid recruit from his own pocket at Ohio State.

--Steve Fisher, there's a reason the Fab Five officially never existed now.

--And, if you include the crime of looking the other way and pretending not to notice as boosters orchestrate the cheating and player-paying: Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall and the saintly John Wooden himself.

 

O'Brien really doesn't belong, either. He's got one offense, and OSU overreacted to that so badly that he owns half the campus now. Plus, he was clean everywhere else.

 

Covered Bliss long before Baylor, and needed lots of showers way back then, too.

 

When one of your players kills another one, and you help him cover it up, then you've earned a bye to the next round, I'd say.

 

Yep, I think we can all agree Bliss wins the gold in this contest, the rest of the debate is for the silver and bronze.

 

Say what you want about Knight, but there was a reason Wooden wasn't on his Christmas card list for a long time. (Rhymes with Ram Hilbert. 8))

 

1) Dave Bliss - Self explanatory ...
2) Jerry Tarkanian - Drug at least two programs into the muck.
3) Eddie Sutton - Scumbag and a drunk, to boot.
4) Bob Huggins - Graduation rates were laughable at Cincinnati.
5) Jim Harrick - Using kids like Huggins and those jokes for tests.

 

Fisher learned at the knee of Bill Frieder, under whose iron-fisted disciplinarian rule the Ed Martin cash express was established in Ann Arbor.

 

John "send in the goons" Chaney

 

Wouldn't it be easier to just list the cleanest college hoops coaches ever?

 

Only to the current regime at the NCAA..

Cheney is a good choice, Kirk is a better choice, Dave Bliss is the best-worst choice...

 

And Sampson learned from that flawless icon, Judd Heathcote.