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Kentucky BB Head Coach Position

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osugrad21;1473602; said:
Cal should also face any sanctions that Memphis receives.
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I also agree but I just don't see the NCAA doing it to a different school than where it was done. Memphis is going to face some major punishment and I don't see the NCAA carrying that to Kentucky unless they want to start a precedent by making Kentucky letting Johnny C. leave.
 
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LitlBuck;1473635; said:
I also agree but I just don't see the NCAA doing it to a different school than where it was done. Memphis is going to face some major punishment and I don't see the NCAA carrying that to Kentucky unless they want to start a precedent by making Kentucky letting Johnny C. leave.
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I agree it won't happen but UK knew exactly what they hiring.
 
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Memphis and UMass both. The man should be banned from coaching collegiate athletics:sick1:

Fox sports


Memphis scandal won't stick to Calipariby Jeff Goodman
Jeff Goodman is a senior college basketball writer for FOXSports.com
Congrats, Kentucky fans.

You may soon hang another national championship banner at Rupp Arena, but don't be surprised if you have to take it down someday and sew an asterisk on it.

The NCAA has notified the University of Memphis that an investigation is underway regarding major recruiting violations by the men's basketball program. Follow the story and latest developments.

At least, that's what history tells us.

The Memphis program has been notified by the NCAA of "major" violations allegedly committed during the 2007-08 campaign, when John Calipari was the Tigers' head basketball coach.

The school is accused of "knowing fraudulence or misconduct" on a player's SAT exam and of providing $2,260 in free travel for an associate of a player.

The player in question in the SAT drama has been identified as Chicago Bulls rookie Derrick Rose, according to a source close to the situation.
If the allegations are proven true, the Tigers eventually may have to vacate their runner-up result from the 2008 Final Four.

This would not be a first for a Calipari-coached team. The 1996 Final Four appearance of his UMass team was vacated after star Marcus Camby was found to have accepted money from an agent.

Calipari is brilliant.

Always one step ahead.

When UMass' Final Four was removed, Calipari was in the NBA with the New Jersey Nets. This time he's in year one of a $31.5 million contract with the University of Kentucky.

The letter that went out from the NCAA was dated Jan. 16, 2009 ? about 2 1/2 months prior to Calipari's decision to leave Memphis. The letter states that an "unknown individual" took the SAT exam for a player on the team who "competed for the men's basketball team through the 2007-08 season, which included his participation in the 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship."

Kentucky officials were quick to point out that Calipari was not mentioned by name in the letter and was not "at risk of being charged with any NCAA violations in this case."

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osugrad21;1473645; said:
...and now they are going to pay for that.

Trust me, I feel zero sympathy for the schools who hired him. However, the man needs to catch some of this heat himself.
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Totally agree. It's kind of sad to think that a good guy like Obie has practically been banished from college basketball for making a mistake or two yet this slimeball does pretty much whatever he wants and gets away with it. Only place he hasn't cheated was the NBA and unsurprisingly that is the one spot where he was a failure. As for the schools, sell your soul and you've got to pay the price eventually.
 
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itownbuckeye;1473656; said:
...It's kind of sad to think that a good guy like Obie has practically been banished from college basketball ...
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:roll1:

You can't convince me that a whiny, vindictive twat who costs his former employer $millions via litigating a contractual technicality is a "good guy."
 
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itownbuckeye;1473656; said:
Totally agree. It's kind of sad to think that a good guy like Obie has practically been banished from college basketball for making a mistake or two yet this slimeball does pretty much whatever he wants and gets away with it. Only place he hasn't cheated was the NBA and unsurprisingly that is the one spot where he was a failure. As for the schools, sell your soul and you've got to pay the price eventually.
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I'd hire the slimeball over Obie too. Obie commited the NCAA violations, could never recruit "5 star" players, and had an overall/conference losing record at Ohio State (51-57, 20-36). The slimeball can plead igorance to the violations, gets "5 star" players to follow him to his new school, and has a winning record in college (445-140, 208-66). :biggrin:
 
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Source: Grade changed for Bulls star

A year ago, Derrick Rose became the No.1 overall pick in the NBA draft, selected by his hometown Bulls and eventually dazzling enough onlookers to be rated the top rookie in his class.
His ability and promise remain an immutable truth for the present and future. It's Rose's past, though, that is becoming a bit more clouded.
First came news Wednesday out of Memphis that the NCAA is investigating an allegedly fraudulent SAT score of a Memphis basketball player from the 2007-08 Final Four team, reportedly Rose.
Then a Chicago Public Schools source said Thursday that a grade on Rose's high school transcript was changed from a D to a C by someone at Simeon Career Academy in the final semester of his senior year.

Entire article: Source: Grade changed for Bulls star - Chicago Breaking News
 
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Anyone see a pattern here?

Georgia denied Dozier on SAT worries

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Updated: June 5, 2009, 11:53 AM ET

ATHENS, Ga. -- Former University of Memphis forward Robert Dozier's initial SAT scores were invalidated by the company that scores the exam, and when he took the test a second time, he scored 540 points lower, ESPN.com has learned through an open records request.
In addition, a faculty member at his high school in suburban Atlanta wrote an anonymous letter to the NCAA Clearinghouse questioning his score on the admissions test, records obtained from the University of Georgia show.
That prompted Georgia to deny Dozier admission. He ended up at Memphis, where he helped lead the Tigers to the 2008 NCAA Final Four.
It is the second time in recent weeks a former Memphis basketball player has had his SAT scores questioned.
On Saturday, Memphis officials will appear before the NCAA Committee on Infractions in Indianapolis, where they will answer charges that Derrick Rose, who played only the 2007-08 season at Memphis before becoming the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls, cheated on his SAT while attending Chicago's Simeon High School.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4233718
 
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