… having finally written a letter to that school’s president about their dirty sports programs (tennis, basketball, and particularly basketball), they would have done better to band together a few years ago and try everything to keep basketball player recruiter Kevin Broadus from being hired.

The New York Times refers to his time at SUNY Binghamton as the “scandal-ridden Kevin Broadus era.” Dude gets his own era and ever so serious Georgetown University not only scoops him up, but does a whole 1984 on his corrupt record and simply expunges it from his university About page!

Where do you think the sort of players who land your school in the scandal sheets come from? They come from recruiters like Broadus, whose apparent indifference to the danger some recruits might pose to the campus community was fully known to Georgetown when they hired him.

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PS: Don’t forget that Georgetown’s scandal plate runneth over: They are revoking Varsity Blues student degrees as well.

First in thy wisdom you granted our Georgetown University Jesuit community a tennis coach who bribedeth rich parents over lo! many years for many millions of dollars and draggedeth our name into the mud. Then you sent us Kevin Broadus, a basketball coach, who had fully demonstratedeth his – O Lord – troubling recruiting policy at SUNY Binghamton but thou sentest him to us anyway. It was thy will, and thy will be done.

And now as we enter the Christmas season, amid annual singalong Messiahs and other forms of fervent prayer, we can only watch in despair – but undaunted faith – as three more hotly recruited basketball players rob and threaten students who perhaps came to our school because they are actually serious Catholics.

But what can we do, O Lord? “Despite being served … restraining orders last month, the three men played in Georgetown’s Saturday game against the University of North Carolina.” We can only follow thy will, which is that these three men continue to play basketball for us. Surely in the fullness of time your… sporting… intentions for us will be revealed.

… has these sports teams, see, and some of them are ever so slightly at odds with that ethos… UD has already told you about their hiring as assistant basketball coach Kevin Broadus, a major player in the disgusting SUNY Binghamton scandal… AND that on his official Georgetown page the school has allowed him to expunge all reference to that history.

Add to that Georgetown’s own Mike Rice, as in the current allegations that the school’s women’s basketball coach has a propensity to bully his players.

All utterly typical big-time university sports shit, except that Georgetown thinks it’s better than that.

Kevin Broadus brings more than 16 years of coaching and recruiting experience to Georgetown. His duties for the Hoyas include recruiting, game preparation, and player development. Remaining in the District for most of his professional career, he has coached at five universities in the metro area.

A native of the D.C. region, Broadus played high school basketball at Dunbar in the District and Montgomery Blair in Silver Spring, Md. He left the area for one year to play at Grambling State in Louisiana, but returned home to attend Bowie State, where he lettered for three years and earned his bachelor of science in business administration in 1990.

Following graduation Broadus served as assistant coach at Bowie State until 1993, when he returned to D.C. as an assistant at the University of the District of Columbia, where he stayed until 1997. While coaching at UDC, he earned his master’s degree in counseling in 1995. From 1998 to 2001, he was on the staff at American University. In the summer of 2001, Broadus moved again, this time to George Washington University, where he was an assistant coach until he came to Georgetown in 2004.

And where was Broadus from 2007 to 2009? Oh right. He was front and center at the SUNY Binghamton scandal; the New York Times calls his tenure at Binghamton the “scandal-ridden Kevin Broadus era.” He even gets an era!

But Georgetown has allowed him to airbrush that right out of his webpage.

Way 1984.

How impressive that a university committed to the truth — a Jesuit university, kids! — not only hires this notorious recruiter of diploma mill graduates and criminals, a man who sued for immense sums the last university for which he worked (Binghamton “paid Broadus $1.2 million to leave”), but allows him to fudge his work history on its official site.

Even by the standards of big-time university sports, this is really sickening.

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UD thanks Polish Peter.

Sports Illustrated offers some commentary on the SUNY Binghamton fiasco (details here):

… [T]he lessons of Binghamton, a state school 140 miles northwest of New York City, were no shock to college basketball insiders.

“What’s happened there really should come as no surprise to anyone that was in the league or following that league,” former Boston University coach Dennis Wolff said. “They were making a recipe for disaster by the way they were going about their business.”

… “The concept of giving kids transferring in (a scholarship), I don’t think anyone’s against that,” Wolff said. “But the idea that almost every guy that came in had been asked to leave where they had been before, that puts it in a different light in my mind.”

… “The problem with Binghamton was simply that the course that they chose, they were under suspicion from the beginning,” [another observer] said. “People said, ‘Whoa, whoa, this guy’s been at three schools. This guy’s been at four schools. … What price glory here?”…

The lessons of Binghamton will not get learned. Universities have spun off their sports programs — they throw lots of money at them but avert their eyes. Who wouldn’t. It’s sordid over there.

Somebody hires a coach who recruits criminals, and the shit hits the fan as anyone not averting her eyes could predict.

Simple matter of negligence. We pay university presidents a lot, but most of them don’t know anything about what’s going on in the big campus sports, and they don’t want to know.

That’s how you get drunkard coaches, coaches who beat up their assistant coaches, coaches who recruit criminals. Every one of these coaches costs an American university between a million and four million dollars a year. Their contracts make it close to impossible to fire them without costing the school many more millions.

Lois DeFleur, SUNY Binghamton’s president, has fired her athletic director, ordered an external audit of the sports program, and ordered disgraced basketball coach Kevin Broadus to draw up a “recruitment and supervision plan for the program’s future.”

UD thinks Binghamton will also try to get rid of Broadus, despite the fact that – just before the shit hit the fan – they renewed his contract to 2010. Getting rid of him will therefore be very messy and very expensive, since Broadus will certainly sue if they don’t give him all the money they’ve promised.

Of course, at any given time five or ten university coaches are suing their employers over contractual matters, so this won’t be any novelty. It’ll just be ugly and expensive for the taxpayers of New York.