Re: Assistant Strength/Conditioning Coach Placed on Leave
This is probably going to be very unpopular, but if I were CNS, Harris and Clinton-Dix would be dismissed. I know a lot of people are going to cry "step off the ledge", call me Chicken Little, and "dislike" this post, but something has to be done to show that this absolutely will not be tolerated. I know all the arguments that the NCAA should allow small stipends, and maybe there should be even be a program to help players that are in a bind, but there isn't. Until the rules are changed, this is not allowed, and the players and coaches know this. They jeopardized the entire football program over a couple of hundred dollars.
It sucks that he was robbed, and I feel for him because my apartment was broken into and I was robbed when I was school. I had to sell my Gibson Les Paul to pay my rent and car payment. It sucked. It sucked bad, and I miss that guitar to this day, but sometimes you have to suck it up and do what you have to do.
You can sell something, pawn something, or borrow it from a family member or a teammate, but getting it from a coach is the absolute worst thing you could possibly do.
I'm sorry, but this is how I feel. It seems like Ha Ha is a good kid, but this is a terrible decision by a coach and a player that could possibly affect the everybody on the team. Even if it doesn't, and the NCAA doesn't punish the school severely, I would do it to show everyone that it doesn't matter if you on the scrub team or a future 1st rounder, that this will not be tolerated.