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Totally agree with your article.

I am really upset with Mr. Calhoun and his antics. Seems like everytime this happens, people just give Calhoun a pass and say its the kids fault. yes, the kid is the problem but what kind of guidance/role model are they getting? When we recruit students..do we not care about the kid but just about how many points they can score? I think we are failing on both ends...recruiting cons and still lose.

Life sucks and is often unfair. The men's team brings in lots of revenue and the school is not going to give that up for anything. I would love it if college sports just disappeared off the face of the earth and we could give the scholarship money to high achieving students rather than athletes, but I am thankful this is Connecticut and not the South where this player wouldn't have even been expelled. Leave big money athletics and all the injustices that come along with it to the professionals.

Thank God UCONN allowed Marcus Williams and AJ Price to stay at Uconn. Marcus now starts in the NBA and returns to CT to help calhoun raise money for charity, and AJ Price has turned into a role-model and dependable leader. When people get greedy and make mistakes, taking what opportunities they have left to make a legit living will make them hooligans for life. Nate Miles of course is a different story, but the full details of this case have not been revealed to the public. The only thing the alleged victim wanted was an apology.

Digging his nails into her? Slapping her back after she slapped him? This dosn't sound like the type of despicable abuse that the media has made it out to be. The female clearly didn't want Miles expelled...She didn't even show up for the original complaint to be filed in court.

Aaron - Maybe if you did some research, you would realize that many of the disciplinary incidents listed in the Hartford Courant were after those players finished their playing careers. You might also realize that so many other schools have these issues and there's no way for Calhoun to know which players will screw up. Comparing the men to the women is the dumbest argument you make. Women never get in the same kind of trouble as men. It's a completely invalid comparison. Check out the incidents at other schools.

Also, didn't Miles go to so some many high schools partly because of his sick sister? I thought I read that somewhere.

The program should be judged on the quality of the individuals that leave the program - not on who is brought in. As John Thompson once said, don't look at what I bring in, look at what I put out.

Any program can bring in good kids and put out good kids. Big deal. The greatness of a program should be judged by the quality of its former players and staff, not that it brings in challenging kids. In fact, it's commendable that UConn gives some downtrodden kids a shot. I am proud that Calhoun brings in a tough kid now and then.

It's not like Calhoun doesn't drop the really bad apples either. Remember Phil Dixon - the greatest recruit ever at UConn? I do. Gone - even sooner than Nate Miles. How about Doug Wrenn?

Based on the long (and I mean long) list of quality players and coaches that have left the program - I trust Calhoun's judgment. If this kid is a real problem, he won't be back - and Calhoun should be praised for giving the kid a chance. If he stays - well, he'll be under a microscope for sure - but I'll give him another chance.