One of the darkest moments in West Virginia University’s basketball history grew even darker Saturday when The New York Times ran a pair of articles which claimed that one-time Mountaineer player Jonathan Hargett had been promised $60,000 by WVU during his recruitment but had received only $20,000 of it.
The second article quoted former WVU basketball coach Dan Dakich, who replaced longtime coach Gale Catlett following the 2001-02 season but resigned after eight days as coach after learning of the Hargett situation, as saying President David Hardesty threatened to “destroy” him if he “went any further with this” when Dakich told him what Hargett had told him.
The allegations were completely denied by Catlett and Hardesty, as well as other WVU officials and former coaches.
Hargett, who turned 30 this weekend, is a one-time basketball prodigy that some predicted would become a collegiate and NBA great out of Richmond, Va. He played only one year at the school in a season that led to the resignation of Catlett.
Hargett currently is serving the final months of a five-year prison term in Virginia after being convicted of drug possession with intent to sell.
Yall still follow that moron on Twitter? 
