re: Better basketball job Mizzou or Tennessee?

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St. Louis is a pay to play town. There's "community" "servants" who need a cut to steer a recruit. We've never done that.

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Sounds a lot like Memphis football 'mentors' that take in (literally and more figuratively) poor prospects who have no parents looking out for them and claim to 'coach' and 'mentor' them individually. A lot of the kids never see a dime or even realize they're being used until later but certain schools line the pockets of these mentors in order to ensure the mentor will steer the prospect to them. Thankfully things are changing slowly but surely - kids and grandparents/aunts/uncles are getting wise to these con-men but they're still out there.

Basketball though is probably the dirtiest college sport out there. It's worse than football when it comes to pay for play and dirty recruitment. Unlike football though, the NCAA is invested in these programs as they get virtually are their money via hosting the tourney and have no interest busting chops/policing the same way they oversee football programs (and they're lukewarm when it comes to policing football!).

A successful college basketball coach pretty much has to be dirty just to compete and the best ones are filthy. All a matter of degree.