Wiseman transferring

[ShockerFever]

Now Penny has a scapegoat when they don't win the league and bounce out in the first round of the tourney. He should be happy.

[shock]

This will kill Penny’s recruiting, which was the only thing he had going for him as a coach. The chair isn’t hot yet but when it starts, it’s going to get hot fast. Something tells me Penny isn’t going to like an even warm seat.

[SB Shock]

This will kill Penny’s recruiting, which was the only thing he had going for him as a coach. The chair isn’t hot yet but when it starts, it’s going to get hot fast. Something tells me Penny isn’t going to like an even warm seat.

Parrish on the CBS college basketball podcast had this to say:

1. Wiseman family has felt mislead by Penny from the start. He told them that the NCAA would not have any issues with the payments. Parrish implied that they would have probably committed to a different school if they knew he was going to be declared ineligible. Then Penny told them they would only get a 6 game suspension and it ended up being 12.

2. Penny and his staff were not happy with him leaving and even tried to convince him to come back after he announced he was leaving. Parrish said he was "mad" but was putting his game face on in public.

[shock]

Parrish on the CBS college basketball podcast had this to say:

1. Wiseman family has felt mislead by Penny from the start. He told them that the NCAA would not have any issues with the payments. Parrish implied that they would have probably committed to a different school if they knew he was going to be declared ineligible. Then Penny told them they would only get a 6 game suspension and it ended up being 12.

2. Penny and his staff were not happy with him leaving and even tried to convince him to come back after he announced he was leaving. Parrish said he was "mad" but was putting his game face on in public.

[MelvinLoudermilk]

I have been following this from a great distance.....are these assumptions of mine correct:

- Penny was a AAU coach and a booster of Memphis
- he recruits Wiseman to his AAU team with the expectation that he would eventually sign with Memphis.
- pays for the move
- then Penny later becomes the coach of Memphis, which in turn made the payment for the move a violation

I am trying to catch up, and might be way off. Am I close?

[The Mad Hatter]

I have been following this from a great distance.....are these assumptions of mine correct:

- Penny was a AAU coach and a booster of Memphis
- he recruits Wiseman to his AAU team with the expectation that he would eventually sign with Memphis.
- pays for the move
- then Penny later becomes the coach of Memphis, which in turn made the payment for the move a violation

I am trying to catch up, and might be way off. Am I close?

Couple of corrections:

1. He was a high school coach, not an AAU coach (he had an AAU team, but didn't coach it directly IIRC).
2. When he paid for Wiseman to move, it wasn't with the intention to help Memphis recruit him, but to help the high school team he recruited. As a booster, however, that payment established a financial link to Memphis that became relevant once Penny became the Memphis coach and now had a relationship with a recruit that included that link.

[ABC]

And Penny was a UM booster because he gave $1M