If you were looking for positive comments about the last few days, you've come to the wrong place.
The U.S. U19 team took a close 78-77 win over Australia on Sunday. Unfortunately, it was for fifth place in the tournament where the Americans were expected to take gold. Jump to this link to see the USA Basketball recap of the game.
And all in the last 12 hours, the Georgia Tech campus, where Hewitt last coached, has been buzzing (pardon the pun) with the news that not only will the football team vacate their 2009 ACC trophy, but that the basketball team will be hit for recruiting violations.
The NCAA alleges that an academic advisor and a grad assistant were at an AAU event on campus and that gave them a recruiting edge. Four of the high schoolers with the Atlanta Celtics program eventually played for Tech. None of the players from the 2009 or 2010 incidents played for the university though.
Sucks for them due to the restrictions they have now.
Here's where it gets interesting for Mason fans (scroll down to 3:56 p.m.). It could give Georgia Tech the right to stop paying Hewitt the rest of his salary, but probably won't. The link has the specific terms of the contract and SB Nation Atlanta does not think that anything will come out of this, financially speaking.
That's good news for you. Georgia Tech will keep paying Hewitt to coach at Mason.
According to CBSSports.com, Hewitt said, "My staff and I have always had a record of compliance with the rules. And we’re proud of that record.”
Too bad that record is now tarnished.
In the spirit of the video the GMU Sports Information Directors made last winter, here's one that encapsulates the ire of GTech fans:
I really do hope he can turn everything around.
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