[More from KC on Mizzou (Looks bad!)]

The seems to be a lot of wishful thinking that the potential of MU going on probation will cripple the basketball program. History simply doesn't support that belief.

Between 1/93 and 10/01, 16 schools from major conferences committed major violations as defined by the NCAA (Louisville was charged twice). Of those 16 schools, only Baylor did not make an NCAA tournament appearance between 1998 and 2003, and only DePaul made one tourney appearance. In total, those schools made 44 NCAA appearance during the 6 years that I looked at. The conclusion seems pretty obvious to me. Probation is not the abyss that many apparently believe.

All of this information is from the NCAA web site.

[Greece "nets" third...other thoughts]

So you're arguing that its better to recruit the less talented player? I find that absurd.

What would you rather have 4 years of Drew Diener or 1 year of Larry Hughes?

[Euro U17]

Here is a link to the euro U17 tournament. The Greek recruit is on the Greek(duh) team

http://www.eurobasket.com/events/ecu17/ecu1701.asp