Truth & Rumors: May 19, 2006Posted: Friday May 19, 2006 11:06AM; Updated: Friday May 19, 2006 11:06AM      
Jim Tressel and Ohio State agreed to a three-year contract extension and revamped his current deal to make him one of the highest paid coaches in college football. Tressel's deal pays him $2.378 million this season and escalates to $2.675 million in the final year of the deal in 2012. Florida State, 109th in the country in rushing last year, will hope the arrival of junior college All-American Shannon Boatman, some shuffling of the line and a healthy year from its veterans will prevent another five-loss season. It became more evident Thursday that Stefhon Hannah might not be a Wildcat after all and no one at K-State appears to know why. But a new name surfaced that could take his place: Tyree Evans. And his story could prompt the Bob Huggins critics to surface, especially if Evans winds up at K-State. Evans is a 6-foot-3 former Richmond, Va., high school guard who was headed to Cincinnati when Huggins coached there. Instead, legal issues sidetracked Evans, who faces an ongoing battle to clear his name. Junior forward P.J. Tucker, the Big 12 player of the year, told Texas coach Rick Barnes he has hired agent Leon Rose, who also represents LeBron James, and will not be back next season. If Mike Williams transfers and Daniel Gibson enters the draft, Texas would have freshman point guard A.J. Abrams and redshirt freshman forward Connor Atchley as its most experienced returning players. It doesn't look like Pitt center Aaron Gray will be working out at the NBA predraft camp in Orlando next month. Instead, the 7-foot junior who declared for the NBA draft three weeks ago will have a workout at Pitt or in a nearby NBA city at which general managers and scouts will grade him in one, all-important workout. If all goes well during the next day or so, the University of Cincinnati basketball program could land the tallest player in school history. Hasheem Thabeet, a 7-foot-3, 265-pound center from Cypress Community School in Houston, arrived on campus Thursday to make an official recruiting visit. He also has visited Connecticut. Louisville, Miami and Southern California are the other three schools on his list of finalists. The often-troubled Oregon basketball career of forward Ivan Johnson has come to an end. Johnson has been released from the team after failing to meet off-court expectations this offseason, coach Ernie Kent said. Johnson, a transfer from Los Angeles Southwest College who was suspended and benched last season because of behavioral issues, plans to transfer to an NCAA Division II school, Kent said. Embroiled in controversy for months, the Colorado men's basketball program received some positive news Thursday when one of the state's top seniors-to-be gave an oral commitment to play for CU beginning with the 2007-2008 season. Aurora Central's Stephen Franklin, a 6-foot-5 swingman, said he called CU assistant John Anderson to give his commitment. Georgia Tech's football team preserved its past but got no help for the future from the NCAA infractions appeals committee. The committee announced Thursday it had overturned a penalty that would have forced Tech to wipe six seasons' results and accomplishments from the record books. The Yellow Jackets can still call themselves 1998 ACC football champions a title they share with Florida State and they can still hang signs commemorating their appearance in bowl games following the 1998-2002 and 2004 seasons. What they can't do is have the normal Division I-A total of 85 scholarship football players this fall or in 2007.    |  | ||||||
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