Semi OT: NCAA Investigating Former Kentucky BB Player Eric Bledsoe

Submitted by Seth9 on

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.

Jarred

May 29th, 2010 at 12:25 PM ^

I've been waiting for news of this investigation to come out for six weeks. It was pretty much an open secret that his coach was "requesting" payment during his recruitment.

BlueinOK

May 29th, 2010 at 12:53 PM ^

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.

Tater

May 29th, 2010 at 3:24 PM ^

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.

KidA2112

May 29th, 2010 at 3:50 PM ^

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.

jmblue

May 30th, 2010 at 1:28 PM ^

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.