Semi OT: NCAA Investigating Former Kentucky BB Player Eric Bledsoe
The NCAA is investigating Eric Bledsoe, one of Kentucky's freshman this past season who declared for the NBA draft, for receiving improper benefits. The subjects under investigation include Bledsoe's high school transcript, whether Bledsoe's high school basketball coach paid three months of rent for Bledsoe and his mother's apartment, and whether Bledsoe's high school coach demanded money from the UK coaches in order to let Bledsoe sign with them.
EDIT: Yeah, I'm dumb. Sorry all.
licious, 1st article yo.
I don't have a problem posting the MGo.locio.us links on the board. It allows the users to generate more content for the site on the Board.
I dont care about posting Mgolicious links on the board. Might be repeatative to others since theres a comment section on the mgolicious. Just pointing it out to Seth.
Now where are the investigations into John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins?
This is unbelievable.
I find it unbelievable that you are shocked at this.
Why wouldn't I be shocked? Calipari is the gold standard in college basketball as far as running a clean program. I've never heard of one instance that says otherwise. Coach K wishes he was as clean as Coach Cal.
That only thing I find surprising is that you do not see more investigations like this. There is many other cases out there like this one.
unless he spent too much time stretching before practice, too.
You mean to tell me a former John Calipari player is under the microscope by the NCAA?? Why does that sound familiar?
What was it that Bobby Knight had to say about Calipari?
Oh, gee, yeah, there it is...
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/2009/12/19/2009-12-19_bobby_k…
It was just a black man trying to help another black man - of course, in this case, he was trying to help himself.
I am guessing that NCAA investigtors run into the "Bluegrass wall" while trying to investigate UK. It appears as of late that cooperation brings probation, while stonewalling lets you off with no penalty at least fifty percent of the time. I cite the Maurice Clarett "investigation" as a main example.
Jamal Crawford basically had to leave Michigan cause of something much less serious than this didn't he?
I know he was suspended for like half the year and I don't he was going to be able to come back even if he wanted to.
It just upsets me to no end when I read about things like this and Michigan is getting the crap kicked out of the them from all directions for mostly nothing.
We need to let the martyr act go. Crawford pretty clearly violated the "extra benefits" rule. He lived with a man who wasn't his guardian (and who did not know him until after he emerged as a high school basketball star) and was given a car by him.
We have been given a reasonable shake by the NCAA. They are not the reason our basketball program fell apart. The hiring of a laughably incompetent coach (Ellerbe), a man who had just been fired by tiny Loyola (Md.), had far more to do with it.
Eric Bledsoe much he needed a transfusion?