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Holy smokes, he's back??? Knicks hire Thomas as consultant.

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by sgreenwell, Aug 6, 2010.

  1. Bamadog

    Bamadog Well-Known Member

    My God, what the hell are they thinking? I guess there is a lot of LSD flowing around MSG for the NYK to bring back that touchee-feelee guy from FIU.
     
  2. SEC Guy

    SEC Guy Member

    Thomas' record in the draft is pretty respectable.

    His record as a coach is horseshit.
     
  3. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    The only way this makes sense is that the Knicks are faced with a situation where there is a solution A and a solution B. It could be drafting, signing free agents, front-office personnel, marketing, licensing, a TV deal or what texture toilet paper to put in the bathrooms in the Garden. They go to Isiah and say, "We can do A or B ... what do you think?"

    Whatever Isiah tells them, they do the opposite. And they can't miss. He will make the wrong call every time, and the opposite solution will be the right call.

    Any other reason to hire him is unfathomable.
     
  4. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

    Are you saying Dolan read the Twilight Series?
     
  5. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Here's a better question. What the fuck is FIU thinking in allowing this?

    Coaching a Division I basketball team is a 24-7 job. How the hell does he have time to moonlight for the Knicks?

    Do you think for one second that Kentucky would let John Calipari do something like this? Would Alabama let Nick Saban? Fuck. No.
     
  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Maybe Isiah's attempting this two-job gimmick as a way to try to squeeze some money out of FIU before he actually decides to just work in New York?
     
  7. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    Stupidity on all levels.

    This board has Isiah covered. For the Knicks, didn't Isiah's ability to continue running the franchise into the iceberg convince you that he's not executive material?

    And if you're Florida International, given that the NCAA didn't look kindly on the FIU-Miami football scuffle in the Orange Bowl some time back, why do you give the NCAA - as spineless, imcompetent and completely ignorant as it might be - another reason to take another look at your institution? Especially given that your institution isn't a big enough player on the college scene to make the NCAA think twice about busting you for the next generation?
     
  8. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    I give the NCAA until about noon Monday before they put the absolute shit-hammer on it: tell Isiah to either resign any official connection with the Knicks, or else order FIU to fire him immediately.
     
  9. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    The NCAA can't do that. There is no NCAA rule that prohibits something like this.

    Of course the reason there is no rule against is that no one ever thought a pro team would be dumb enough to try it and a college team would be dumb enough to allow it.
     
  10. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    I would be stunned if, in the 1000-page NCAA rule book full of tickytack rules on every variety of shit under the sun, there is not some NCAA rule banning student-athletes from repeated contact from official representatives of professional sports franchises. As an officially-announced "consultant," Isiah Thomas is now exactly that.

    And if there is not already such a rule, there should be -- by about noon Monday.


    PS: Alabama would let Saban do anything he wants. Anything. He. Wants.
     
  11. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    There is no rule like that. If there was scouts would not be allowed to attend football, basketball or baseball games.
     
  12. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    "Casual" or "inadvertent" contact. Not continuous, repeated contact.
     
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