Not exact matches
Balancing his
coaching duties and audacious plan to bring the top
recruiting class in the country to the little - known
basketball school with the wave of uncertainty surrounding his personal life and job security, Dowkens takes his Badlanders to Las Vegas to play the eighth - ranked UNLV Runnin» Rebels on national TV in a game that seems certain to define his career.
All of this opportunity for malfeasance has culminated in a grand FBI investigation that is bringing college
basketball to its knees, with top players ruled ineligible,
coaches being fired, and coveted
recruits decommitting from
schools.
This is THE premier summer high
school basketball tournament during the live
recruiting period for D1 men's
coaches.
The
school began a long string of PR defeats — a verbally incompetent athletic director, an abusive
basketball coach, a football
coach forgetting basic rules of decorum, a series of arrests — and
recruiting trailed off.
Broadly, the investigation has shed light on the highly competitive
recruiting pipeline that brings elite high -
school basketball players through Division I college programs and into the professional leagues, and the role played by assistant
coaches in that process, the people said.
Set in suburban Indiana, the film stars Rockwell as Bill Greaves, an adult misfit
recruited by the local high
school principal (Corddry) to
coach the
school's floundering girls»
basketball team.