Miner Rush, a UTEP Miners community

More fallout from ESPN over a hire that hasn't even been made official yet. First Rob Dauster of Ballin is a Habit (link above) defends the Niblett hire and notes that Floyd did nothing illegal. He also discusses the fact that the NCAA doesn't want to cut off a path for a high school coach to join the college ranks completely, so the hire Floyd made fits within the "spirit of the rule." Then, ESPN's Eamonn Brennon, link here, predictably argues that the NCAA should now ban the hire of high school coaches to college assistant jobs and to operations positions. So again, he admits that Floyd did nothing wrong, then criticizes him for doing something wrong.

ESPN's Eamonn Brennan reports that former Miner coach Billy Gillispie is actively pursuing the newly available head coaching job at Iowa State. It's just ironic that Tim Floyd came to fame at Iowa State and ended up at UTEP and Billy Gillispie might now complete the opposite path.