Not gonna end up with legal consequences, but Beard had a lot of rumors of impropriety prior to this, and the complainant making a huge unexplained about-face just screams pay-off. Feels like the preponderance of evidence in the public forum is fairly clear.
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Report: Celtics assistant Stoudamire finalizing 5-year deal with Georgia Tech
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Heh, didnât even realize he wasnât at Pacific anymore.
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I didnât realize he ever was at Pacific.
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I read âNBA guy with last name starting with âSto-ââ and thought âis his son Andrej still going to Stanford?â
this misunderstanding lasted longer than it shouldâve
Stoudamire was hired at Pacific in the wake of huge sanctions. Tournament bans, scholarship reductions, etc. He got them to 23-10 in year 4 and ended up nearly .500 overall, which is the programâs historical baseline.
Not as miraculous as, say, Chris Creighton with Eastern Michigan football but itâs the kind of resume where you see sub-.500 and itâs still very impressive.
if youâre not familiar with the school or area, you probably read âUniversity of the Pacificâ and think of something beautiful and coastal like Pepperdine, making it more attractive to recruits. but no. itâs in Stockton
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Donât know much about Cali geography but I take it Stockton must be in a boring, landlocked part of the state?
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Itâs in the Central Valley, which is basically another Kansas.
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Wikipedia told me that it has fine art, local history displays, trails, a nature center, a Japanese garden, and a lake stocked with catfishâŠso basically Utopia.
yes itâs due east of the Bay. was a gold rush town.
stockton is like sacramento, but without the glitter
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The Ramblinâ Wreck have a new AD, which can hardly be a bad thing. I have no idea how Stoudamire will do, but they havenât made a good basketball hire there in many years. Gregory and Pastner were obvious poor choices at the time.
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ever since I watched this video I have not liked Josh Pastner. He is a dork and I want to beat him up
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You mean she said she wasnât strangled months after she said she was strangled, bit, and âthrown aroundâ, after her fiance, with whom she was still living, lost his job. She also essentially said he hit her âin self defenseâ because she broke his glasses. Sorry, Iâm not getting behind that.
Just to clear up the timeline here.
We will never know the absolute 100% truth, but Iâm comfortable with the general characterization.
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Timeline says she said it a few days after. So not 3 months. I would never want to see this type of thing but the characterization when they couldnât even prosecute the connotation just falls short imo.
Iâm comfortable rooting against any coach whose wife ends up with bite marks. Iâm not a court of law so Iâm not required to have a burden of proof higher than that
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You donât need to pay that same person millions of dollars to coach young men, either.
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Men who try to strangle women go on to kill them at crazy high ratesâitâs a an absolute warning for advocates to get women away from them fast. What it says about a personâs self control in hard circumstances is not reassuring. Iâm a believer in redemption narratives, but less than a season later? Those better be some confident administrators at Ole Miss.
Always loved Stoudamire as a player, and would be tickled to see Tech field some better teams. I remember reading somewhere how hard it is for Georgia to recruit basketballâI wonder if Tech, under the right circumstances, couldnât come to own Atlanta high school recruiting, dominate in that state.
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Exactly. I am fine not sending him to prison if thereâs not enough evidence to get a conviction. I understand our system and how it affects victims and prosecutors worry about their stats etc But Iâm also ok with him not being paid lots of money to be in charge of young men. Coaching at this level is a privilege, not a right
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We are not a trier of fact so we can judge him as we see appropriate. Everything says he did what he was accused of and that victimâwho was not the only witnessâchose to reconcile for reasons that may have been in her interests.
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