#4 Tim Floyd

There was a time when I liked Tim Floyd. He seemed like a hard working coach. He won at Idaho, he won at New Orleans, he won at Iowa State. How can a guy win at places like that? Well probably the same way he won at USC by paying guys to play for him, or by paying handlers of guys to get their guys to play for him. It might seem like a real reach to assume that just because a guy was dirty in one place he was dirty every place but if he had to pay OJ Mayo to get him to So Cal, what do you think he had to do to get Marcus Fizer to Ames, Iowa? Besides being one of the few coaches to have ever been accused of physically handing money over to street agent directly Floyd is a real indignant SOB who probably yells at waiters and mistreats animals. Don’t be fooled by this wrong any longer he is dirty, arrogant, and undeserving of a coaching job in the NCAA.

The Lowlights:

• When he left to coach the Chicago Bulls he left the Iowa State program in the hands of another wrong…Larry Eustachy. If he had stayed at Iowa State that wrong never would have been allowed to go out partying with Co-eds and drinking Nati Lites in Columiba, Missouri on a week night.
• Compiled a 93-225 record in the NBA over five seasons and was by his own admission “not very good at it”.”
• Told a room full of boosters last season that: “Kansas has two players who would have been NBA lottery picks, Cole Aldrich and Sherron Collins, and they are returning to school. Good for them. Our guys get an offer from Islamabad and they’re gone.” He said this two weeks before resigning himself.
• Paid $1000 cash to a handler of then recruit OJ Mayo as a means of gaining access to recruit him. Leaving one to wonder how long and how much of that kind of stuff had he been doing through the years? And why doesn’t he use a middle man? Even Kentucky in their hay day didn’t have coaches directly handing out cash.

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