Let him go.....

Not only do national letters of intent not have these "material adverse changes", but it's hard to argue things have fundamentally changed.  Most teams change assistant coaches frequently.  If Negedu expected any of Olson's assistants to be there the entire time he was in school he was fooling himself.  The fact is the head coach is still there.  Other schools that have granted releases have changed head coaches and all the assistants.  Brings me back to an article a few months back (Doyel or Parrish wrote it I think, stating that letters of intent are optional-if Negedu saw trouble back in November when he signed the LOI, he should have thought twice.  The school committed itself to giving him a scholarship when he signed it, and he committed to the school.  If he wanted to chance the school giving him scholarship away by the August enrollment, which is unlikely for a top 50 recruit, then he could have chose not to sign the LOI in the first place.  Pretty soon we'll just have open free agency come May in college basketball, and recruits can go to whatever school signed a hot coach or has open playing time from early entries.

When you look back at the landscape at the time of the LOI, you had a HC out for who knew how long, but at least a season. You had an asst elevated to HC and named as Olson's successor and the other assts. The kid is good w/ O'Neill and the assts....really isnt involved w/ Olson ???? Now, Olson comes back, cleans house of all that was there before and expects all the recruits to be happy and just come play? Nah, I think there is trouble at UA and the player(s) should have a chance to rethink things. They are 17-18 yr old kids still. They do change their minds.

Keith