re: Nolan Richardson "I'm not angry anymore"

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Just a thought... if he is over it, moved on, why bring it up constantly...

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He's not the one bringing it up and asking about it.

He is trying to bring closure to the situation, something Frank has never had time to do.

Nolan was right about several of his issues with Frank, he did see discrimination and a different set of criteria for job performance reviews from Frank and the big money boosters.

Many have overlooked at the time of his melt down he was looking at several penalties for NCAA infractions he had nothing to do with (again after the NCAA witch hunt in 1996), so he already felt the NCAA was out for him. Nutt's program opened the investigation with their infractions, John McDonnell's program allowed the NCAA to use the lack of institutional control for stiffer penalties with his program's infractions.

Nolan was losing scholarships and receiving recruiting sanctions and being told by Frank that he would be given no slack for a decline in performance, while Nutt gets a two year free pass and a new contract after his program committed the infractions. Yeah, that sound fair to me.

However, the favoritism and discrimination he saw wasn't based primarily on the color of his skin.

Frank and the old money were a little to liberal with their use of 1940s labels for folks around the AD.