Originally Posted by
Geki Ace
We had inferior talent because it was a C-USA school that happened to be located in a horrible neighborhood. The academic standards of the school have nothing to do with Huggins, it has to do with the professors. It wasn't Huggins' job to get players who were smart, it was his job to get players who were good at basketball, and he did a mighty fine job of that. If a player is being recruited by, say, Cincinnati and Duke, he's never going to choose UC because it's a trashy school in a trashy neighborhood. I guess that's why Huggins had to go, because he wasn't a piece of trash like Zimpher.