Controversial Kevin Broadus Back with Hoyas

Georgetown basketball coaching legend and sports talk radio personality John Thompson let the cat out of the bag on his popular ESPN-980 radio show Wednesday afternoon:  

"Kevin Broadus is coming back," said the coach (father of Hoya coach John Thompson III), referring to the former Hoya star and controversial figure who was suspended at Binghamton after a series of major recruiting and academic violations compounded by the arrest of one of the key players at the upstate New York school last year.  

It's true, Hoya fans. Georgetown announced that Broadus, as assistant coach for the Hoyas between 2004 and 2007 before taking the Binghamton job, will be a "special assistant" effective immediately. But he won't be involved in any recruiting outside the metro DC area, sources said. 

In effect, the hiring by Georgetown offers a second chance for Broadus, a popular local hoops figure who stumbled badly in his initial foray into the head coaching ranks at Binghamton even though his teams were highly successful making the NCAA tournament in 2009.  

The senior Thompson, a 1960 graduate of Archbishop Carroll High School in northeast, a Hall of Fame coaching legend at Georgetown and now a nationally recognized sports broadcaster, seemed pleased about it on the air this week.  

For Broadus the hiring will be a welcome homecoming. He starred in high school at Dunbar in DC and Blair in Silver Spring and then at Georgetown. He's also coached at vario0us other local colleges including AU and GW and served as an assistant at Bowie State for a time.  

At Binghamton he took the team quickly into the top- ranks of college hoops.  But that was followed by a wave of extremely bad publicity which included player arrests, academic controversies with the school over player eligibility and other issues.  

Eventually Broadus was suspended by the New York state university and reportedly received a $1-2 million buyout on the remainder of his contract there. 

At Georgetown, his role will be limited at first and will not be involved in out-of-town recruiting.