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posted 03-30-2011 04:21 PM
The records Yahoo! obtained showed that Nochimson paid for meals and housing for Miles, and even went so far as paying for foot surgery for Miles before he was on campus—something Calhoun not only knew about but encouraged.
“Coach Calhoun and Josh thought it was best for me to get (the injury) taken care of before I got on campus. I guess Calhoun didn’t want (UConn) to have to pay for it, so (he wanted to) get it done before I came,” Miles said. “Josh paid for it with one of his cards or one of Rip’s credit cards.”
But what Miles doesn’t understand is how he was still forced to bite the bullet by his lonesome; UConn knew the story was coming.
“They knew—Coach Calhoun and everybody on that staff and everybody at the University of Connecticut knew—that the story was going to break with Josh, so they railroaded me out of there,” Miles said. “Coach Calhoun, no disrespect to him, he’s a good guy, he showed he cared about me while I was there, but they expelled me because—this is how I feel—because they knew that story was going to drop with Josh.”
Even after the NCAA investigation, the Connecticut brass hardly suffered. Calhoun was ordered to serve a pathetic three-game suspension, but he gets to serve it next year after UConn’s money-making games in the Big East Tournament and the NCAA Tournament. Tom Moore, who not only looked the other way, but initiated Miles’ relationship with Nochimson, actually made money in the long run. He took the head coaching job at Quinnipiac and suffered no consequences. He coached the Bobcats to a second-place finish in the Northeast Conference this past season.
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