To hear the snickers, the head coaches of the four semifinalists of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament’s Midwest Region might have to pony up for extra charges given the amount of baggage they’re carrying to Kansas City.
There’s Auburn Coach Bruce Pearl, NCAA “show cause” judgment alumnus, now under scrutiny for questionable hiring decisions. There’s Houston Coach Kelvin Sampson, punished not once but twice for living through his phone. There’s Kentucky Coach John Calipari, with “vacated” listed next to two of his six Final Four trips. There’s North Carolina Coach Roy Williams, whose players appeared in an academic fraud scandal after taking fake classes.