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A Potential Basketball Conflict Of Interest

College basketball writer Jeff Goodman said agent/consultant Matt Kelly is assisting Jen Cohen with the USC basketball coaching search.

Eric Musselman does not have an agent but Goodman has wondered if Kelly is going to get a fee from Musselman or maybe even become his agent if USC hires the Arkansas coach.

“He’s pretty much her agent, Jen Cohen’s agent,” Goodman said. “Is there a scenario where Eric Musselman gets the job and then signs with Matt Kelly? That is a scenario I’m told is in play. A little bit of a conflict of interest.”

It’s actually a major conflict of interest, if it happens, even by college basketball standards. I figured Cohen would be more sophisticated than this, so we’ll have to see how it plays out.

  • Shooting guard Liam Campbell has requested a release from his letter of intent with USC. He is the second player this week to request a release, following point guard Trent Perry.

Both players said they will keep USC as an option.

  • Enfield has taken his three assistants (Chris Capko, Jay Morris, Eric Morris) with him to SMU.

36 thoughts on “A Potential Basketball Conflict Of Interest”

  1. Dandy Andy takes his 3 assistants with him. Can you imagine being entrenched in LA for 11 years and then have to move to Dallas?

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      1. Which “dump” are you referring to, Malibu, Topanga Canyon, Santa Monica, Bel Aire or Brentwood?

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      2. Compton, South Central, East LA, Rampart, Lawndale, South Gate, Long Beach, Pico Rivera, San Pedro, Cudahay. There’s more of the shit than there is the nice. Throw in the gangs, traffic, cost of living, homeless, DA that won’t get tough on crime, yeah, lovely place to live, not.

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  2. She’s using her agent to help find a coach ?

    This isn’t going to end well.

    The way things are going, USC may not be able to even field a basketball team next season !

    USC, where the motto seems to be SNAFU or is it FUBAR ?

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    1. I don’t know, with gambling legal in most U.S. States (but not in California at least ’til 2028) it seems most folks have gotten ‘soft’ about morals and right-behavior- I’d be more worred about Ohtani then ‘Ol’ Jen

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      1. Ohtani could be guilty as shit but nothing will come of it, he’s the face of MLB, they aren’t going to fuck that up, kinda like Selig with McGuire and Sosa, seats are full, TV ratings are up, they’re on roids ? And ????

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    2. In real estate you can be seller’s agent, but if a buyer appears without an agent that you the seller’s agent did not bring to the seller, you may be entitled to ask for 2% to 3% commission, not the customary 6% for both buyer and seller’s agents. But if you are the seller’s contract consultant, no commission is due, right? You are being paid whatever the contract says, perhaps a set fee. 

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    2. Ohtani will slide because he is Mr. Baseball that sells well, and Cheryl as SC men’s coach is interesting but SC will not be a pioneer with this hire

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  4. By the way, catch Otani’s celebration of his first Home Run, subdued & dignified with only 2 subtle displays of excitement depite inner ‘explosion’-it’s the Japanese way

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      1. I like something in between the ‘Asian-Latin’ ways of celebrating a homer. A couple of ‘jumping jacks’ would be appropriate but 3 are too many

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  6. to BK’s L.A. assessment– but L.A. to me is from the ocean to Chinatown with Southeast, San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys as appendages

    Gangs and crime you cry but crime is down from the 1980s

    Cost of living is commensurate with L.A. being so desirable

    But you got me with the obscene traffic, why I moved to Chinatown but sometimes I am in stalled traffic which I find soul-sapping

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      2. My mirrors might hit yours if you don’t scoot over a bit, but they swivel. So neither will be damaged.

        Now crotch rockets on the other hand are set inside a molded fairing. The cars’ mirrors probably wouldn’t fare so well.

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    2. Crime is down ? Yeah right, more like it doesn’t get prosecuted these days.

      If you live near the ocean, the weather is great, you live inland, it’s hot.

      I like the four seasons where I live, spring is great, fall is beautiful and I don’t mind the cold and some snow, I could do without the hot summers but it’s all part of it.

      Our crime is next to none, the traffic has gotten worse thanks to the Cali’s moving here in droves, they’ve also driven the cost of homes up.

      Glad you like LA, I was born and raised in So Cal, fled almost 30 years ago and I’ll never set foot in Cali again.

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      1. Cool– everybody has different tastes but I too love the Seasons which L.A. doesn’t really have but there are the Eastern Sierras 4-hours away

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      2. Born & raised? Interesting, since I’ve only heard transplants ever refer to it as “Cali”. (Same as SF residents would never call it “Frisco”.)

        I hear Cali and I think of Colombia.

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      3. Crime is down because they change the laws to rule out certain actions as crime or they just don’t report it. If you have laws against shoplifting and then you change the laws to say that stealing anything under $950 is no longer a crime, obviously, your shoplifting statistics are going to go way down.

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      7. Maybe to you. I hear it on TV occasionally. But in all my years I’ve only heard it ONCE in person and it was by a business colleague from Ohio about 12 years ago. I’ve never heard another business associate, family member, friend or neighbor use it.

        To each his own. I’m not offended by it. Just don’t hear it.

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  7. On the other hand the ‘homeless problem seems similar to India’s caste system except our LA homeless were not born into supposed inferiority. Greater LA is world known&renown so if you have no money for a roof over your head, pitching a tent here might be next best. And unfortunately homelessness is too expensive for society to bankroll even if it were inclined to do so, so the ‘street’ people are here to stay

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    1. Homeless people like sunny weather, that’s why they go there, and other states ship them there, plus they get handouts from the politicians.

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      1. I know illegals who came illegally to this country 35 years ago. They’ve never become citizens. They actually lose benefits if they become citizens.

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      2. Parcel, my wife & I have each worked with latinas who claim the father of their kids has long since abandoned them in order to collect gov’t benefits, when the two of them are still together living happily together as a couple.

        I wish the government would compare what they claim to be living on, with what they claimed to be making the last time they applied for an apartment or a loan for a house!

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