A little more on the NMSU - Herb Pope divorce

According to ESPN's Andy Katz, Coach Marvin Menzies and AD McKinley Boston apparently believe that Seton Hall did some wooing of Herb Pope prior to any official release.

We say, 'welcome to the real world of college basketball Misters Menzies and Boston, as if you actually needed that introduction.' Your crocodile tears just don't cut it.

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Over at the Sporting News, Mike DeCourcey, chimes in that the so-called 'transfer rule' allowing a player to move to a new school and play right away due to personal hardship is too open to abuse. Here's the link.

But there's no word on whether DeCourcey also feels coaches should have to sit out a year when leaving one job for another, "stability to their sport' (you'll have to read the article) notwithstanding.

Coaches always want greater and greater control over everything yet very, very few -- praise to those who walk their talk -- will turn down a more lucrative or prestigious opportunity, promises to their players be damned.

There is a great deal of reform needed in college basketball, plenty to go around, but it ultimately is a business and all decisions should be viewed through such a prism.