A reporter gets personal

Now I know that I am biased when I start railing about the injustice of the Yahoo article about possible violations of recruiting at UCONN, but the fact is that the whole article smacks of a witch hunt and the timing couldn't be more unfair. Instead of a feel good story about the enjoyment of the NCAA's we have to deal with this cloud. This helps no one. Not the NCAA's not any team, and certainly not UCONN. In truth my opinion of Dan Wetzel has fallen off a cliff; he always had been a champion of March Madness and the small storylines, now here it shows he just wants to be the news. The fact that they spent over 6 months investigating the case of student who never even played a game at Connecticut is proof enough of a witch hunt. Maybe if you had some big recruit who brought them a national championship you have a story, not the story about some flunk who blew every chance he's ever been given. The efforts made (the recalling of the telephone records) is just creepy. Do they really think that there is a story here? Does anyone care? The fact is that whenever you have big money to be made the NCAA just doesn't have an effective preventative system. Reggie Bush anyone? I'm not saying that recruiting violations should happen or be condoned, but the drawn out assault of this 'report' or as Calhoun put 'blog' is just ridiculous. I would bet that if they looked at the phone records of every major school- say the top 50 you could find 'violations' like this for everyone one. Is it right? Clearly not. Is it fair to single out one program during the midst of their tournament run absolutely not. I think the lesson here is to give Wetzel an interview otherwise he's going to publicly embarrass you by digging through your trash. Truly classless reporting.

In other news GO UCONN tonight!