Kevin Broadus commits violation, gets suspended from off-campus recruiting

Things have gone from bad to worse to an utter and complete disaster at Binghamton.

Two weeks ago, Emanuel "Tiki" Mayben was kicked off the team after being arrested for selling crack. That prompted the school to toss five more players, including DJ Rivera, the best player in the America East, off the team as well. The University then began to clean house, first firing a professor that had worked there for 11 years, and then losing AD Joel Thirer, who resigned from his post. All of this turmoil has led to an independent investigation into the Binghamton athletics program, which is headed up by retired NYC Chief Judge Judith Kaye.

It wasn't all that long ago that Kevin Broadus cut down the nets during a Final Four run as an assistant at Georgetown.
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You would think that given all the hoopla surrounding his program, Broadus would want to do all he could to avoid anymore negative publicity. He already barely avoided an NCAA violation after canceling campus wide tryouts for the team last week.

But Broadus wasn't done.

You see, the contact period, the 27 days during the fall where coaches are allowed face-to-face contact with recruits, ended on Monday, October 5th. Tuesday the 6th marked the first day of the evaluation period, where coaches are allowed to watch and, well, evaluate the kids they are recruiting. But in-person contact with those recruits is not allowed until after the evaluation period ends March 31st.

NCAA rules apparently don't bother Broadus. On Tuesday, while watching two recruits - Marcus Glenn and Antoine Myers - at Notre Dame Prep in Massachusetts, Broadus was seen with an assistant walking the two players up a hallway. The recruits were seen returning to the gym with business cards. The two recruits later confirmed that Broadus had spoken to them, blatantly violating NCAA rules.

On Friday, the school self-reported a secondary violation to the NCAA and on Saturday they banned Broadus and his assistants from recruiting off-campus.

Yup, things are really bad up in Binghamton. The Bearcats have just seven scholarship players on the roster, their leading returning scorer averaged under 5 ppg last season, and they cannot recruit off-campus because their head coach was just busted for an NCAA violation while the school's athletics program is under an external investigation.

Former Boston University head coach Dennis Wolff went as far as to say that "It's conceivable (Binghamton) could not win a game" to the Albany Times-Union.

The question now becomes how long will Kevin Broadus be allowed to keep his job, because he sure isn't acting like he wants it.

The answer is trickier than you think because Broadus signed a contract extension this summer. He is owed over $1 million for the next five seasons, which is a lot of money for a school with a $10.4 million athletics budget.