Weekend Dump

Since I cannot guarantee a Monday Morning Dump on Memorial Day, The Weekend Dump is making a special appearance.

Enjoy your three day weekend, whether it's at the beach, at the barbecue or at the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Final Four (That's where I will be)

- I know it's Saturday, but Gary Parrish's "Five for Friday" is worth the read any day of the week

- Dirk Nowitzki was on The Dan Patrick Show on Thursday and provided some insight on his college recruiting process. Dirk was afraid that American coaches would make him a traditional "Back-to-the-basket" center

- Penn State's coaching search hasn't gotten off to the most dazzling of starts. Larry Brown will not become the next head coach at Penn State. East Carolina head coach Jeff Lebo has rejected Penn State as well.

- Doug Gottleib provides a great look at some of the off-the-radar story lines from the off-season (Insiders Only)

- In case you missed anything from the recruiting realm this week, Rush The Court has you covered

- Markieff Morris doesn't think Derrick Williams is that good. Umm, 'Kieff, didn't Williams drop 27 points on you guys back in November? Yeah, that's right, he did

- Jason King breaks down the newcomers in the Big XIIand the Pac-12 that could have a big impact in 2012

- UC-Irvine junior forward Eric Wise signed official papers indicating he will be transferring to USC

- Gardner-Webb point guard Luke Davis is going to transfer to UNC and join the vaunted "Blue Steel" group of walk-ons

- Score one for mid-major coaches with talented sons. You can add Georgia State's Ron Hunter to the list of mid-major dads that got their high-major sons to play for them.

- Utah redshirt freshman Josh Sharp is transferring to another in-state school, and new Ute's head coach Larry Krystkowiak is not happy about it. The former-Nets coach calls "shenanigans"; thinks schools actively recruited Sharp during his two-year LDS mission in Houston

- Did you know that Xavier-bound Isaiah Philmore lists "Madea Goes to Jail" as his favorite movie?

- Rush The Court put together a quality Q&A session with Notre Dame's Tim Abromaitis

- The Only Colors revisits the list of potential Big Ten sleepers from the beginning of the season

- Part-1 of John Calipari's "State of the 'Cats" declaration

- Utah Valley officials believe that Utah State is standing in the way of their school getting an invitation to the Western Athletic Conference

- Of course Jim Boeheim wants all 17 Big East teams to participate in the conference tournament

- Larry Shyatt, the new head coach at Wyoming, had some choice words for a group of coaches he believes have "sold out"

- The Texas A&M Board of Regents has approved the $5 million contract of new Aggies coach Billy Kennedy. The ex-Murray State head coach will earn $500,000 a year in salary and another $500,000 in a media supplement.

- Matt Norlander plays conference catch-up for the best of the rest (i.e. the high-mid-majors)


"Student-athletes, that is brilliant Suhh"