Okay, here we go. Have to be careful. Used to have season tickets at Pan Am in Texas. It was a fun program to follow and was known for sending Luke Jackson to the NBA and Abe Lemons coached there at one time. Adams took over a sagging program and turned things around. However, towards the end of his tenure, there was a situation with one of his assistants and a test that was submitted. Turns out the player's name was misspelled on the test so questions swirled around that. So Adams was in hot water and actually secretly taped a conversation with the athletic director at the time, who was a good guy. This came out in the media. There were also some unpleasant interactions with the SID and the publicity surrounding all this. The SID was a very good person who did not deserve to be leaned on. Long, long story short, Adams moved on and found his way to Lubbock (he is a Texas Tech grad) and actually ran a minor league hockey franchise there for a time and even got into hot water with the rules there. Later, he moved on to Howard JC in Texas and did his usual good on-floor coaching job there (NBAer Jae Crowder was a player). I watched them win the juco title in Hutchinson, Kansas. Then, Adams scored an assistant's job at Tech and moved to the head man's seat after Coach Beard's departure to Texas. I have always been very disturbed about his interactions with people that I respected and, when he comes into Hilton, I do not want to see him have success. I have pitched this to some journalists in Texas and have not gotten anywhere. I have voluminous files and have somehow misplaced some of this information. You have to be extremely careful, certainly with stories about millionaires.
