So we find out this morning that the NCAA is charging the Memphis basketball program with "major recruiting violations during the 2007-2008 season. This from ESPN.com:
The Memphis men's basketball program has been charged by the NCAA with major violations during the 2007-08 season under former coach John Calipari. The Memphis Commercial Appeal first reported the story on Wednesday after obtaining a letter detailing the allegations through the Freedom of Information Act. The allegations include "knowing fraudulence or misconduct" on an SAT exam by a player on the 2007-08 team. The wording of the letter to Memphis indicates that the player in question only competed during the 2007-08 season and the 2008 NCAA tournament. The player's name was redacted in the letter due to privacy laws. Sources told ESPN.com Wednesday night that Derrick Rose was the player in question. He played only one season for Memphis before being selected as the first pick in the 2008 draft by the Chicago Bulls. The letter also alleged that Memphis provided $2,260 in free travel to road games for an associate of a player. The NCAA is charging Memphis with a failure to monitor. If the NCAA allegations are proven true, Memphis might have to forfeit their NCAA-record 38 victories and Final Four appearance.
So, in the line of J-Red's post about "Things More Believable than the Redskins' Tampering Defense," I give you "Things Less Surprising than Memphis Being Charged with Major NCAA Violations." Feel free to add your own in the comments section:
1) Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire being implicated for having taken steroids.
2) The Washington Generals... err... Nationals... being 15 games out of first place by late May.
3) Lebron James whining about reffing in the NBA playoffs.
4) Chad Ochocinco (notice, only one word, as mandated by the NFL) planning a touchdown celebration for each week of the NFL season, only to need to use about 2 or 3 of them.
5) Mel Kiper using the word "upside" at the NFL Draft.
6) T.O. wearing out his welcome with another NFL team and then throwing players and coaches on that team under the bus.
7) Controversy is caused by the third-place team in the BCS Standings stating their case as to why the system is flawed, leading to weeks-long discussion about a college football playoff system until the NFL playoffs begin when nobody gives a shit about NCAA Football anymore aside from people in Oklahoma.
8) Michael Phelps taking first place in a swim meet.
9) (fill in Olympic sport) gaining rapid popularity for two weeks of wall-to-wall NBC coverage and the 20 devoted followers of that sport believe that the sport will take off all across the country, only to find that nobody really cares about the 2007 Pairs Ice Dancing Championships in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
10) The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
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Damn, I was at a party a couple weeks ago with a couple Kentucky fans who were crowing about how Calipari was going to bring recruits with him.
I wanted to jump into the conversation and tell them how corrupt Cal is, but couldn't remember any of the details. This isn't his first rodeo, is it?
NOT MUCH TO COME FROM NCAA CHARGES
see www.commercialappeal.com in Memphis
The university apparently feels good about its response to the charges. There has been speculation that if a player cheated on his SAT and rendered himself ineligible that the Tigers' NCAA-record 38 victories and 2008 Final Four appearance could be vacated. However, if it's not proven Memphis had reason to know the player was ineligible -- indeed, the NCAA clearinghouse had certified the eligibility of that season's freshmen -- it would be hard to justify that action. The coaches were told the kid could play, so they played him.
ALSO -- Rose's brother who was on the trip had given a credit card for the trip. The NCAA did not have this information.
I'm not familiar with the details of this case, but the standard reply from schools is always "we didn't know, and we had no way of knowing." They're trying to avoid sanctions and especially trying to avoid a "lack of institutional control" charge.
Secondly, I refreshed my memory on Calipari's history and saw the $28,000 Marcus Camby got form an agent while playing for Calipari, the fact that a huge recruit's (Dajuan Wagner) father was hired as Director of Basketball operations, and Calipari's association with AAU scum William Wesley.
There are some coaches who get one bad break (Larry Eustachy) and some who seem to have controversy follow them around (Kelvin Sampson). Calipari seems to fit the latter mold. I wouldn't want him coaching my team, no matter how many one-and-done NBA stars he could bring through the program.
11) Sky is blue. Report at 11.
12) Everybody poops.
13) Hines Ward is a douchebag.
14) All the current F1 teams returning "conditionally" for next year after claiming they wouldn't over a rules dispute.
15) Cleveland basing their economy on Lebron James. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM
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