I’ve gotten a couple calls from people today insisting that it wasn’t the Arizona coaching staff that tipped off Jeff Goodman on the Abdul Gaddy phone call. I don’t know whether it’s true or not, and I certainly was not trying to say definitively in my blog this morning that Arizona was behind this. I was merely speculating on how the story could have come to the attention of a national columnist — most likely through the coaching staff of another school — and Arizona is obviously the team that is most involved in the Gaddy recruitment.

Second, Memphis is getting a visit this weekend from Will Coleman, the Dorsey-esque 6-9 power forward from Miami-Dade Community College. Coleman originally signed with Arkansas-Little Rock but had to go the Juco route. He’s a guy who was being recruited at Pittsburgh by Orlando Antigua, who is now on the Memphis staff. Coleman was at the Memphis elite camp earlier this summer and is a major physical specimen. I didn’t see enough to get a feel for his skills.

Memphis does not plan on ending its recruitment of Abdul Gaddy because of the phone call booster/FedEx CEO Dave Bronczek made to his mother, according to my sources.

In fact, there’s a case to be made that this kerfuffle could actually turn Gaddy away from one of the Tigers’ competitors.
First of all, I have not talked to anyone who expects this to go beyond an NCAA letter of reprimand being sent to Bronczek.

Second, the Gaddys are not real happy to be in the middle of this situation, especially since they were caught completely off-guard by the way this played out. Oseye Gaddy obviously did not think there was anything inappropriate about the phone call, or else she would not have talked so freely with Foxsports.com’s Jeff Goodman about it when he brought it up in his line of questioning last week. The fact that this story ends up embarrassing her employer was absolutely not what she intended.

And why are they in this situation? Obviously, someone leaked it to Goodman.

Now, let’s take a step back here. The entire Gaddy recruitment has been a delicate situation with Memphis and Arizona, who have been listed as his co-leaders. Gaddy originally committed last year to Arizona, in large part due to the efforts of assistant coach Josh Pastner.

After Pastner left for Memphis, Gaddy de-committed from Arizona and put Memphis on his list. It’s my understanding that Arizona coach Lute Olson was actually brazen enough to ask (demand?) that Pastner not be involved in recruiting Gaddy at Memphis.
If Arizona was indeed responsible for leaking the information about this phone call to Goodman – who is, coincidentally, an Arizona graduate and has a close relationship with Lute Olson – I can’t imagine it would help Arizona’s chances to re-gain the player’s affection.