You get only one chance to make a first impression, Ray McCallum. And you blew it.
McCallum, the new basketball coach at the University of Detroit, stole a player from his old school when he convinced freshman center Eli Holman to transfer from the Hoosiers to Detroit. It was an ethical no-no, but what does McCallum know about ethics? He has spent the last several years working for Kelvin Sampson.
In one move, McCallum brands himself as a guy to be watched closely, and not for good reasons. And he did it for nothing, because Eli Holman is a first-rate head case who -- mark my words -- will ultimately bring more bad than good to McCallum's program at Detroit. Holman is the idiot, you'll recall, who threw a potted plant while trying to tell new Indiana coach Tom Crean he wanted to transfer, getting so angry that school police had to be called.
That wasn't the first time Holman had been physically violent at Indiana, either. I hear Holman went after Sampson last year and had to be kicked out of practice.
Sampson being the disciplinarian he is, he didn't do anything else to punish Holman.
McCallum being the low-rent guy he is, he stole Holman.
Good riddance for Indiana. Bad move for Detroit.
Nice start, Ray McCallum.
