Does Jerry Tarkanian have Alzheimer's?

[Cem Blasoflas]

What in the holy hell is the point of this garbage?  This is truly bizarre:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/shark-bytes/2009/feb/27/hartman-kruger-and-kansas-state/

[KSUArch]

I can't tell if that is supposed to be a serious column or not...

[sys]

i liked it.

[nicname]

Tark has a pretty good blog.

[SkinnyBenny]

That was crazy.  Just.....daaaaaamn, dude, who gave you a blog?

[nicname]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/shark-bytes/2009/jan/30/arnold-and-harrick-no-thanks/

this one is pretty good

[Cem Blasoflas]

J.R. was playing in Vegas with his summer team when I was giving a speech on Harmon, across from where the Hard Rock is. I did a radio interview, then I went to go to the restroom.

J.R. introduced himself to me. He says, Coach, I really want to come to your school. I didn’t even know who he was. I said, That’s good. I’ll have an assistant coach check you out.

This is like OJ Mayo walking up to Tim Floyd.  Only Tim Floyd wasn't stupid.

Mark Warkentien, one of my assistants at that time, said he was a helluva player. But something happened. He didn’t play his senior season in high school.

I'll tell you what happened.  He did play his senior year.  Then he signed with K-State.  The exact quote I remember is: "If Isiah Rider signs with K-State they are immediately the best team in the Big 8."  Then he decided that he didn't need to go to any more high school classes.  None.

He went off the radar. I didn’t think anything more of him. Then I read in a USA Today article that he was at a junior college in Kansas and Kansas State was recruiting him.

We placed him at Allen County.

He was averaging 28 points. He was having a great season. Then Lon left for Florida. When that happened, I called J.R. He said, Coach, that’s where I always wanted to go.

OR - he was charged with stealing a watch from one of his roommates and the KSU coaches were told that we could no longer offer him a scholarship.

We pulled him out of that JC and put him at Antelope Valley JC, where my son George was an assistant coach.

Because he was too stupid to qualify after a year at Allen County.

Like I said, bizarre.  What did the Hartman stuff have to do with any of that?  Hartman would have gone all PJ Carlisemo on J.R.

[Cem Blasoflas]

Maybe Tark is finally embarrassed by the fact that he brought J.R. to UNLV and he wants to drag Lon into it in some sort of twisted way to keep his name out of the mud?  Lon should be beyond livid.

This is the guy we're talking about after his 8 year NBA career and one championship ring with the Lakers (yeah, the guy could play):

Post-NBA life

In January 2006, Rider was arrested on kidnapping charges in Marin City, California for taking a female friend in his car against her will.(*) He was charged with domestic violence and ordered to stay out of Marin City. Despite this court order, he was spotted in the area a few weeks later. A Marin County sheriff's deputy confronted him, and while fleeing, Rider hit another car. He was arrested in Alameda County in late 2006, and transferred to the Marin County jail after three judges in that county issued bench warrants against him. In February 2007, Rider pleaded guilty to several charges, including felony cocaine possession and evading an officer. He was sentenced to seven months in jail, 120 hours community service and three years' probation. He will also have to complete a drug education program. At sentencing, Rider admitted to a longstanding problem with marijuana; he'd also begun lacing it with cocaine. (*)

On January 6, 2008, Rider was again arrested, this time in Berkeley, California after a confrontation between a taxi driver and a passenger resulted in the police being called. Rider was found to be the passenger. Subsequently, Rider was arrested on a no-bail warrant for unlawful firearm possession and separate $5,000 warrant for grand theft issued by the Oakland Police Department. (*)

On March 5, 2008 Isaiah was arrested and was held in the Marin County Jail in San Rafael, California. He was charged and pled guilty for possession of a controlled narcotic substance, disobeying a court order, evading a peace officer, providing false information to a peace officer, and driving on a suspended license.

On early Saturday morning, March 29, 2008, Rider was arrested in the Skid Row district of Los Angeles for investigation of auto theft and was released from Los Angeles County jail in the afternoon. He was scheduled to appear in court on April 23, 2008. (*)

[sys]

OR - he was charged with stealing a watch from one of his roommates and the KSU coaches were told that we could no longer offer him a scholarship.

jfc, our ad is/was run by a bunch of idiots.  no wonder kruger got the &@#% out as soon as he could.

[Cem Blasoflas]

OR - he was charged with stealing a watch from one of his roommates and the KSU coaches were told that we could no longer offer him a scholarship.

jfc, our ad is/was run by a bunch of idiots.  no wonder kruger got the frank out as soon as he could.

I actually have no idea if that's how it went down.  It may have been all Kruger's call to tell JR to GFHS.

[feralchat]

I think digby has a real good blog.
Atrios refers to her all the time, and his blog is big time.
He's one of the guys who really got the blog thing going.
Now anybody can have one.
I guess they aways could.
Tarkanian can even have one, but it's like listenting to your great uncle.
Get to the point and stay on it.

[hankh34]

I love sharkbytes, but this one was a little rambling.  Based just on the story, I have no idea how Lon helped him get Rider.

[Thin Blue Line]

Sounds like most old people you might have a conversation with.