The Glenn Cyprien File ...

[GetTheFacts1st]

"what the school said" What a bunch of Cr@p! Like Cyp had the proper credentials all along and WE didn't know about it!

Arkansas just started accepting new graduates to their ranks a few weeks ago. I assume Cyp now has a "degree."

[NewsCopy]

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Arkansas' new assistant basketball coach says he already knows plenty about the Razorbacks. "I'm very familiar with Arkansas because I coached with Coach [Eddie] Sutton at Oklahoma State," said Glynn Cyprien, introduced by Razorbacks head coach Stan Heath on Friday. "Coach Sutton loved Arkansas and spoke highly of the university, the following and the loyalty of the fans." Cyprien fills the coaching spot left vacant when Ronny Thompson became head coach at Ball State in April. Cyprien was an assistant to Sutton -- a former Arkansas coach -- at Oklahoma State from 2001-04, and he spent last season as associate head coach at New Mexico State. In between those jobs, Cyprien was hired as head coach at Louisiana-Lafayette, then was fired before coaching a game, after the school said he did not have a degree from an accredited university that he listed on his résumé. Cyprien later sued Louisiana-Lafayette, contending the school lacked justification to fire him. Before coaching at Oklahoma State, Cyprien was on staffs at UNLV, Western Kentucky and Jacksonville. He has also been an assistant at Lamar and Texas-San Antonio. But it was his work with Sutton that earned Heath's attention. Oklahoma State went to the Final Four in 2004. The rest of the story

[Tripple Threat]

Cyprien later sued Louisiana-Lafayette, contending the school lacked justification to fire him.

It's interesting to see a positive slant in a paper that is pro the local University. I wonder if the razorback community would be receptive if they knew he unsuccesfully sued the university and it was proven that his resume was falsified.

If I remember right, as opposed to commending the UL for finding a problem and fixing it, didn't the Advertiger put a negative spin on the Cyprien situation by blaming UL for hiring him. It's amazing to me that one or two words can affect so much.

[Tripple Threat]

The lawsuit is still pending...

[RaginEsquire06]

Anyone catch the Arkansas v. lsuam@br game today? Was unaware that Mr. Cyprien was hired as a coach for the Hogs. This guy must be a pretty good coach...rebounded pretty quick from the unfortunate saga that occurred over here!

[Zeebart21]

Anyone catch the Arkansas v. lsuam@br game today? Was unaware that Mr. Cyprien was hired as a coach for the Hogs. This guy must be a pretty good coach...rebounded pretty quick from the unfortunate saga that occurred over here!

Shame the cat lied on his resume.

Z.

[NewsCopy]

. . . Cyprien's career includes assistant coaching stops at Western Kentucky, where he worked for Matt Kilcullen, and New Mexico State, where he was the associate head coach to former University of Louisville assistant Reggie Theus. He also has worked as an assistant at Nevada Las Vegas, Jacksonville University, Lamar and Texas-San Antonio. In 2004 Cyprien was hired as the coach at Louisiana-Lafayette and subsequently fired when school officials learned that he did not hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited university. The résumé Cyprien sent Louisiana-Lafayette when he applied for the job listed a degree from Texas-San Antonio, but Cyprien's only bachelor's degree at the time was from Lacrosse, an online school in Bay St. Louis, Miss. Cyprien sued Lafayette for wrongful termination. According to a 2004 story in The Oklahoman, Cyprien said he'd presented athletic director Nelson Schexnayder with a résumé that listed his bachelor's and master's degrees from Lacrosse and not the one from Texas-San Antonio. Schexnayder told the newspaper he did not receive an updated résumé. In 2004 Cyprien completed his bachelor's degree at Texas-San Antonio, according to The Oklahoman. Cyprien said yesterday that because his lawsuit against Louisiana-Lafayette is pending, he can't discuss it. The rest of the story By Brett Dawson bdawson@courier-journal.com The Courier-Journal

[levetsj]

La Supreme Court dismisses coach suit vs. UL
1/21/2009, 2:26 p.m. CST
The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court throws out a defamation suit brought by a college basketball coach fired months after he was hired.

Louisiana hired Glynn Cyprien in May 2004. It fired him after learning that his degrees were from an online school rather than Texas-San Antonio, as a faxed resume claimed.

Cyprien said Louisiana defamed him because he gave the correct information in another form, and hand-delivered a correct resume before a student worker at Oklahoma State faxed the inaccurate one.

The high court ruled that since he did submit a false resume — and never explained why it was in his files — he had no case.

It also found that Louisiana had a valid reason to fire him.

Cyprien, now an assistant at Kentucky, spent the 2006-07 season at Arkansas State.

© 2009 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.nola.com/sportsflash/inde...st=nola_sports

[jllanclos]

The next line says it all:

The high court ruled that since he did submit a false resume — and never explained why it was in his files — he had no case.

When did personal responsabillity for our actions disappear? It's always someone else's fault...

[wcd35]

Damn I thought this was a Baldwin follow up.

[MetryCajun]

One down, one to go!

[jllanclos]

_ Damn I thought this was a Baldwin follow up. _

Me too. he has less of a case than Cyp did.