Candid Coaches: Can star players be stopped from rule-breaking?

Posted Aug 9, 2013
"I think you use these moments as teaching moments. You try to show the kids that even a player like P.J. Hairston at North Carolina or [Johnny] Manziel [at Texas A&M] can end up with their eligibility at risk. But now it looks like both of those players are probably going to be OK. So maybe it's not a teaching moment. I don't know. It's hard." (CBS Sports)

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