New Book Paints UTEP’s Tim Floyd In Unflattering Light

Of all the prominent basketball figures portrayed unflatteringly in George Dohrmann’s new book “Play Their Hearts Out,” none come off looking worse than new UTEP coach Tim Floyd.

Readers first encounter Floyd in the book in 2008 when the then-USC coach dangles a scholarship in front of Demetrius Walker, one of the young prospects that Dohrmann follows from age 10 until he’s ready to select a college.

First Floyd isn’t very forthright about whether Walker’s scholarship offer was legit or not. Then Walker alleges that AAU coach Pat Barrett pushed him to go to USC in return for a payment from the school. And finally, Floyd becomes incensed when Walker opts not to sign on signing day because he feared for the future of the program in the wake of the O.J. Mayo scandal and he questioned whether USC would pull his scholarship if someone better came along.

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