Does the pairing of Pete Garcia and Isiah Thomas look like a perfect match or what?Garcia, the athletic director at Florida International, made a splash Tuesday by hiring Thomas as his men’s basketball coach, though Thomas has zero experience in college coaching.
Garcia not only overlooked Thomas’ unproductive-to-disastrous runs as a coach and exec in the NBA at Toronto, Indiana and New York, he overlooked some strange-to-distressing personal behavior by the Hall of Fame point guard.
That behavior included the recent incident in which Thomas apparently overdosed on sleeping pills — then tried to convince the press it was his daughter who was rushed to the hospital. And it includes alleged sexual harassment that resulted in Madison Square Garden paying a woman $11.6 million.
So why are Thomas and Garcia a perfect match? Well, according to Greg Cote of The Miami Herald, Garcia’s “own university president admonished Garcia publicly last week for ‘unprofessional management, poor leadership style, misuse of state resources and [creating a] hostile work environment.’ ”
They’ll get along just fine.
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/colleges/story/999863.html
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