This is a sad story...

GiantFan

GiantFan

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SUNY Binghamton basketball made it to the NCAA Tourney last year with a number of transfers with troubled pasts. The Coach Kevin Broadus was hired a few years ago after recruiting kids with issues at GW and Georgetown for several years. He says he is giving these players a second chance but his program is a ticking time bomb. Well, it just blew up....

I made a post aobut this last year:

http://www.thecollectorsgroup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19890

Well, earlier this week their PG, 2nd best player, was arrested for selling crack and immediately kicked off the team. Then last night they announced they threw 5 other kids off the team including their best player DJ Rivera, their 3rd best player Malik Alvin (the one arrested last year) and 3 others.

The former President of Cincy who fired Huggins is now the SUNY Chancellor (Head of all NY State schools) so the AD and the Coach may not last the weekend.

Here is the story from ESPN.com

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4504739

Binghamton releases five players
Associated Press

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Binghamton released five more basketball players on Friday, a day after star player Emanuel "Tiki" Mayben was arraigned on ******* distribution charges and kicked off the team.

Coach Kevin Broadus announced that D.J. Rivera, Malik Alvin, Corey Chandler, Paul Crosby and David Fine were released. Spokesman John Hartrick said in an e-mail that no players, staff, or administrators would be made available for further comment.

Hartrick did not return calls seeking comment.

He told the Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton that the five were released because "they are not toeing the line. Their attitude and behavior ... is not what we expect from our student-athletes."

In a statement announcing the releases, Broadus said, "If any of the young men in our program don't respect the decisions that have been made or the rules we have in place, then they need to move on with their lives."

On Thursday, Mayben was arraigned in Troy on felony **** charges, and athletic director Joel Thirer later said Mayben had been permanently dismissed from the basketball program. A sealed indictment charged Mayben with selling ******* twice on June 29 and police said they found 3.4 grams of ******* on him when he was arrested.

Dennis Lasser, a professor at Binghamton's school of management and a former faculty athletic representative, told The New York Times: "Every five years, some program implodes in college basketball. Why it had to be Binghamton University I'll never understand."

Broadus signed a contract extension in June through the 2013-2014 season, on the heels of a season that featured the team's first-ever conference championship and NCAA tournament berth.

The Bearcats went 23-9 last season and won both the America East regular-season and tournament titles. They were 13-3 in league play and won a school-record 11 straight games before losing to Duke in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Rivera was second in the America East in scoring last season but was left off the All-America East team in the voting by the league coaches.

Mayben's arrest is the third legal problem for a player since Broadus took over the program in 2007.

Former player Miladin Kovacevic, who wasn't recruited by Broadus, left a classmate in a coma after a barroom brawl in May 2008. In November,

Alvin, a transfer student brought in by Broadus, was charged with stealing condoms from a Wal-Mart.

Binghamton is part of the State University of New York system, which is led by chancellor Nancy Zimpher, known to take a hard line on problems within the system's athletic programs.

She was president of the University of Cincinnati when men's basketball coach Bob Huggins was pressured to resign in 2005 after the program had a history of low graduation rates, suspensions and arrests of Huggins' players. Huggins also had a drunk driving conviction in 2004.
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And it gets better. Apparently the Binghamton Zoo is upset about the comparisons of the basketball team to a zoo.

:lollol::lollol::lollol::lollol::lollol::lollol::lollol:

This is not a joke. This was published in the local Binghamton newspaper. the part in bold below is GOLD!!!!

Link to Deadspin story: LINKY DINKY

I am tired of hearing that blight on Binghamton University, the men's basketball team, being referred to as a "zoo." The Binghamton Zoo at Ross Park has just received re-accreditation by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the industry's governing authority. We achieved this status by being in the top 10 percent of all the zoos in the country.

Our animal care, safety, employees and educational and service standards are set high and met accordingly. Not one of our tigers has been arrested with *******. No otter knocks over old ladies to shoplift condoms. Our bear doesn't have temper tantrums and storm off his exhibit. You won't find any of our lemurs busted for smoking pot. So, please, stop insulting zoos by comparing those criminals to us.

Amanda J. Padwa

Business Manager

Binghamton Zoo
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bamasa37sb34 said:
That may quite possibly be the stupidest zoo-related thing I have ever read :doh:
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Why stupid?? The Zoo is actually upset about being compared to a basketball team full of criminals. OK, maybe a little stupid but damn funny that they sent that into the newspaper.
 
GiantFan said:
Why stupid?? The Zoo is actually upset about being compared to a basketball team full of criminals. OK, maybe a little stupid but damn funny that they sent that into the newspaper.
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Stupid because they got so bent out of shape over a metaphor (or is it an analogy?). Funny as hell, but still....
 
bamasa37sb34 said:
:waits for written statement from the Jimmy Johns sandwich company how none of their top ranked executives has never been arrested for selling crack:
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:lollol:

This whole thing is hilarious.

Do you think the coach should be fired? I do. They knew he had a bad reputation for recruiting bad kids at GW and G-Town and then he does the same thing at Binghamton. I also hate him because in his first year he started a shoving match with the UAlbany basketball coach during the handshake after the game because the UA coach said he was a fan of the previous coach. Great example to set for his team.
 
Zeeck said:
It'd be pretty hilarious if otters did knock over old ladies to shop-lift condoms
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:lollol:

I also found this line funny from the Deadspin article about the Binghamton Zoo comments:

To be fair, you won't find any of Binghamton's players cruelly plucked from their natural habitat and forced to spend their lives in a small enclosed space behind bars for the rest of their lives. Oh wait.
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