NCAA investigating Memphis and John Calipari for violations

[Beninator]

I agree that cheating wouldnt stop and it is the coaches fault much more than the players but in cases like Rose, Oden, Durant ect... Why pretend these guys are students? Forcing them to go to college makes an even bigger mockery of the situation. These guys dont go to class even when they do qualify. If the NBA were smart they would let these guys go strait to the D league for evaluation. That would make the D league much more marketable and avoid all this NCAA non sense for their future stars.

and... all this might just level the field for mid-major schools.. at least for a while.

Nice post lakeview...

[tornado]

but if the kid has an option between a mandatory year in the D-League vs. a year or two in Europe at $.5 to 1 million per, he's still gong to bolt over there
I say just let 'em market their talents anywhere, and if they're good enough to play in the NBA at 18 - so be it

[houstontxbrave]

Memphis will get slammed because Cal is gone and they're a non-BCS school, and Cal will go on at Kentucky as if nothing ever happened. I love it how these guys 'don't know what's going on'. Give me a break.

I predict that Memphis gets slammed bigtime and Simeon will lose its championships. But Calipari will get a small slap on the wrist, no way NCAA penalizes him, he wont be tied to any of this directly and if he cant be tied then he is not knowingly guilty. Memphis will fall quickly back to the abiss of mediocure within the CUSA.

[SFP]

and the moral of the story is? Just do not get caught until you have moved on.

Either the NCAA will have to change their rules completely or this type of situation will keep on happening. The problem is that money corrupts and there is way too much in the game right now for all the top dogs to make any changes until it is to late. I predict again that HS players will be heading to Europe early and often as long as they are compensated accordingly without the drama of the NCAA.

[tornado]

So just who is ultimately responsible when there's fraud, scandal, inappropriate behvior??
If this kind of blatant fraud and cheating is going on, shouldn't someone at the top be held ultimately accountable??

I know whenever even the tiniest misbehavior like an inadvertent overpay or an underage consumption issue happens,
that everyone lays the blame on the guy at the top...they want the guy's head on a platter and he's named in every article on the subject!

OK...let's use the same rule....who was the guy at the top?
The head of the Chicago Public Schools back when Derrick Rose and his teammates were at Simeon...

Well, surprise.....it's a guy who just got a promotion and raise!
A guy who's making a killing peddling claims of doing great things in the Chicago Public Schools!
Here's the guy

[Da Coach]

There are reports now that Memphis was first notified about the NCAA's suspicion that Derrick Rose's SAT test was fraudulent in early May, 2008, over a year ago.

Also, Memphis' response to these NCAA charges may be made public today. Their response will refute the NCAA allegations that someone other than Rose took his SAT test.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4222106

This article from the Sun Times also reports that Patrick Beverley now admits he cheated while at Arkansas, and that people at the university helped him cheat.

http://yourseason.suntimes.com/boys_basketball/1601888,060109-rose-allegations.article

[houstontxbrave]

Maybe we should have a pole as to which school out of Memphis, Arkansas, USC or Calipari gets hammered first and who gets penalized worst?

Ill say Memphis gets penalized worst and is the only school to ever get penalized. Arkansas will get a slap on the wrist, USC and Calipari will keep on keepn on.

[tornado]

I will go with a write in candidate...SEMO

[houstontxbrave]

I will go with a write in candidate...SEMO

I was going to say something similar but Memphis is a mid major in a mid major conference, they will get SEMO'd in this deal.

[Da Coach]

The report of Memphis' own investigation of this matter is now public--

http://www.pjstar.com/sports/x124610301/Memphis-finds-no-proof-former-player-cheated

And surprisingly, they find no evidence that anyone at Memphis did anything wrong!

[Da Coach]

Reports now that maybe there was something fishy with some of Memphis' other high-level recruits-
http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/e...71764/15357807



And more about Derrick Rose-

http://yourseason.suntimes.com/boys_basketball/1604056,060209-derrick-rose-memphis-allegations.article

http://yourseason.suntimes.com/1602995,060209-rose.article

[tornado]

the funniest line in that CBSSports story you linked to Coach was in one of the reader comments...

"John Calliparri can **** ** ***. He is the biggest cheater in all of the
NCAA. Does it take a brain surguen to figure out that he cheats."


the spelling errors are hilarious...even a brain surguen probably can spell...