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Memphis forced to forfeit 38 wins in 07-08

Even if true....and it's not confirmed by NCAA....had Cal stayed there, assuredly the penalty would not have been the same.
The "immunity" the top coaches seem to enjoy follows them and the after they leave, then the school takes a hit.
In the end, as is the case at Florida State, this really doesn't take away a single dollar, a single scholarship, a single day on the recrutiing trail, and so it is a token penalty that doesn't really have even the remotest actual effect.
What's a penalty supposed to do....discourage that school and others from doing the same, right?
Well, they get to keep all the money and nobody there right now sees a single bit of the punitive action, so what kind of penalty is that?

All this does is provide a trivia question to ask....
"how many Final Four and Elite Eight wins do both Memphis & John Calipari combined have? (answer none, BOTH Memphis and Cal had to forfeit them all)

Also-- Memphis will appeal and it could be reversed...
recall..that when the NCAA came down with a similar penalty against Oklahoma under simjilar circumstances....then Oklahoma appealed and the NCAA reversed itself and allowed them to keep their wins.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33941432_ITM
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?key=/n...-+university+of+oklahoma+-+07-16-07+ncaa+news
 
When Calipari left Memphis it made Memphis alot less important(profitable) to the NCAA(CBS, ESPN). So coming down on them hard was a no brainer.

What is relavant is that Calipari was the head coach, regardless of his head buried in the sand excuses, in this scandal. In this situation it only makes sense, something the NCAA has no clue about, to both penalize the school and the coach. I bet if Calipari would have left Memphis to go to the NBA he would have gotten a sanction of some sort, but since he left to go to Kentucky he well gets nothing.

Look its pretty much common knowledge cheating goes on in a rampent form, and its pretty much common knowledge that the NCAA penalizes non BCS's much more harshly then it does any BCS program.

Maybe there needs to be a rule that if a coach is caught cheating then that coach must pay back his entire salary for the season in which the school/program was caught cheating in. I wonder if there was a conduct clause in Calipari's contract, if so Memphis should sue him for money paid, why should he keep the money when the season essentially never existed.
 
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Once again, the NCAA is a joke. It really is comical, and insulting to everyone's intelligence to operate with these double standards.:rolleyes:
 
Memphis has announced they will appeal the penalties imposed by the NCAA. The NCAA says Memphis must vacate all 38 wins in 2008, including their NCAA march to the finals.

Here is an interesting twist that was released by the NCAA today- The SAT test score that supposedly qualified Derrick Rose to play his freshman season, came after he had failed to qualify several previous times he took the test. But this final test, taken just before Rose enrolled at Memphis, was actually taken by someone else, and it took place in Detroit, instead of Chicago. Wonder what Detroit has to do with all this? Maybe it has something to do with famous high-school talent broker William Wesley, who helps steer top talent to Nike-sponsored college teams. He is from Detroit.
http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6271764/16733001

One more interesting bit-
Here is a twitter post by one of the Memphis players-
http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6271764/16730418
 
I wondered if the player who wrote that tweet was the one who had someone else take his SAT for him!:mrgreen:
 
I noticed that not only were the Memphis wins for the year forfeited, the Final Four appearance was "vacated" and the school was forced to return all money made from their NCAA appearance that year.

Calipari has to pay some way, however. This is the second instance of impropriety under his watch and each time he has walked away with not even a slap on the wrist. The only way that the coaches will learn something is if they are penalized in addition to any action against the school.
 
this blogger makes the point that the situation is exactly the same at Kansas where Darrell Arthur's grades were changed and should have been inelgible.....so why didn't Kansas also have to vacate their wins and Final Four?

I know the answer...and it's because they are Kansas and Memphis, albeit avert strong team, is still NOT kansas and so Memphis gets nailed and Kansas gets off scott-free.
http://www2.kusports.com/weblogs/ku...ku-should-be-worried-about-memphis-situation/


and as predicted, Memphis will appeal
http://tri-statedefenderonline.com/...of-M-blue-and-determined-to-appeal/Page1.html
 
well we know the NCAA proved one of their players that year, Darnell Valentine, was paid at least $5000 in "unrepayable loans" (meaning freebies and payoffs) and numerous other players were also indicated in Kansas' serious violations back in 2005 when the NCAA gave them only the legendary penalty "probation".
Had they been SEMO they'd have gotten the death penalty.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=ncb&id=2623115


is there even one person who recalls this situation and compares it to the SEMO situation, that can't see the bias in the way Kansas was give esentially NOTHING.
 
Indiana Daily, who hardly qualify themselves as credible experts...
because they were huge, enthusiastic supporters of the IU hiring of proven cheater Kelvin Sampson, chimes in with their opinion...

"NCAA must come down on Calipari"
"Why has more not been done .."

then they go on to compare Calipari to Sampson...
"Isn’t the allowance of a student-athlete to evade educational standards a little worse than impermissible phone calls?"
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=69304
 
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