More Harvard

It is hard to believe Jerry Tarkanian and Harvard basketball would ever be together in one story, but there you have it. Check out this Dan Wetzel column at Yahoo spun out of Sunday's New York Times look at recruiting, um, issues at Harvard. From Wetzel's column:

The all-time coaching rogue heard the news and couldn’t decide whether to be stunned or entertained.

“Harvard?” Jerry Tarkanian kept saying with a laugh. “Harvard’s cheating?”

And this:

Has a coach ever apparently misread the culture of a campus worse than (Harvard coach Tommy) Amaker?

And this:

If that doesn’t work and a coaching change is needed to clean things up, let the alma mater of John Hancock, John Adams and John F. Kennedy know that at least one unlikely candidate is available.

“Absolutely,” Tark, 77, said laughing. “I’m retired, but why not? Harvard was one school I never even thought about.”

The feeling was probably mutual … until Sunday.