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Re: College basketball pet peeve

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:33 am
by Michael Bush
bloke wrote: I find it interesting that Kentucky hired a coach who has never been to the "Final Four".
I know you live around Memphis and there's a lot of anger at Cal there. But FWIW you're the last guy I would have expected to have drunk the NCAA's Kool Aid.

No matter what the NCAA says, there is no question that Kentucky defeated UMass, coached by Calipari, in the semifinal game in 1996, and that Memphis lost to Kansas in the championship game in 2008. Unfortunately he happened to have cheating players both of those years, and as a result the NCAA has tried to re-write history. But that doesn't mean it didn't happen: He indisputably had been to two final fours before coming to Kentucky.

(And no, I'm not going to get into an argument about the well-known fact that Calipari was exonerated of any wrongdoing in those situations, and has never been in the slightest difficulty with the NCAA compliance people, unlike, say, Roy Williams.)

Re: College basketball pet peeve

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:13 pm
by Biggs
Can I express Bruce Pearl-themed resentment here?

Re: College basketball pet peeve

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:18 pm
by Michael Bush
http://www.coachcal.com/11471/2012/02/t ... r-program/

Boom.

(You all knew Cal was against the one-and-done rule, right?)

Re: College basketball pet peeve

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:56 pm
by The Big Ben
No, I wasn't familiar with most of the NCAA rules.

Players should be given a stipend commensurate with the money they bring in. They are getting the opportunity to showcase their talents but how many of actually make a living playing basketball? Scholarship players are not allowed to have jobs even if they wanted to work. Guess it was too easy to have a big booster play a player $1000 to sit in a parking garage booth on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Or not do *any* sort of work for the money.

I must be a fogey but not being able to drop foul shots seems like losing easy money. A star player who is handling the ball is bound to get fouled frequently. Being able to stand and set the shot up is a learnable skill.

But what do I know?