Convicted felon recruited for UCF

According to Pete Thamel of the NY Times, Kevin Ware was lured to Central Florida by a convicted felon. It’s all all starting to make a little more sense now. Excerpt: Central Florida, it turns out, had an ally in its recruitment of Ware: Kenneth Caldwell, a Chicago man with a substantial criminal record and apparent ties to a prominent sports agency. Ware said Caldwell called him repeatedly to talk up Central Florida, traveled to Atlanta to meet with his family and even arranged joint phone conversations with the university’s basketball coach, Donnie Jones, and his staff — contact prohibited by the N.C.A.A. “He was pushing for U.C.F.,” Ware said of Caldwell in a telephone interview Thursday. Informed of Caldwell’s background, Ware on Thursday said he would not attend Central Florida. Ware is one of three highly regarded recruits who had some dealings with Caldwell and who then decided in recent months to commit to Central Florida, a degree ...