Kentucky did forfeit their 2 Ncaa tourney wins and was also stripped of their SEC regular season and tourney titles in 88.
Kentucky did forfeit their 2 Ncaa tourney wins and was also stripped of their SEC regular season and tourney titles in 88.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
Because it punishes people who shouldn't be punished. Memphis, its coaches, its boosters-- none of them did wrong.
They shouldn't be punished.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
Who cheated? It certainly wasn't the institution nor its coaches or representatives/ boosters.
And, no, the university didn't give his brother free transportation. They gave him rides back from games on chartered planes for a fee. He'd paid for some of the rides, but didn't after a specific time. When the charges came out, Rose paid Memphis back for the ride.
(This apparently happens all the time in Division I athletics, concerning player families and chartered plane rides; it is not considered a major violation and would have only made Rose ineligible if he or his family had not paid back the price of the tickets.)
When all is said and done more is said than done.
He was as much a part of the university as was Darrell Arthur at Kansas. Arthur "graduated" to the NBA after his team defeated Calipari's team. Then, the NCAA found out Arthur's high school grades were changed to keep him eligible. If his grade hadn't been changed, he'd have been ruled ineligible. As it was, he was just as ineligible as Rose.
What happened to Kansas's championship and wins?
Nothing.
That involved obvious, admitted academic fraud.
Rose's case, meanwhile, is based on possibilities and supposition. (No one at the site in Detroit nor anywhere else "caught" Rose cheating. The NCAA just thinks it's possible Rose cheated and, because they're the NCAA, that's enough to charge Memphis with the crime. Guilty until proven innocent, in this case.)
Numerous reports detail that Memphis made a "clerical error" and, in fact, had Rose's credit card on file before the "free" tickets. Rose assumed all was paid, and, when he found out, paid the outstanding charges in full.
These are minor violations that have, in past cases, warranted, a small in-season suspension ranging from 1-3 games. In other words, the tickets were not a big deal.
Have you actually read the NCAA reports on the Memphis situation? Arthur's grade changes did affect his high school eligibility, but not his college eligibility. Yes, the Texas high school association has higher standards than the NCAA. Maybe the AAU should go back and strip the Carlisle Indian School of some wins because Pop Warner used to pay Jim Thorpe a quarter a touchdown. Let's deal with one scandal at a time.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
Sure I have read the reports on Memphis. Two minor violations for basketball (and a nebulous charge about a lack of institutional control that is patently ridiculous) and a majority of violations against the girls' golf team. (I actually find that question kind of insulting and it has little to do with this our conversation.)
And, according to the NCAA's own by-laws, any time a player's grade is changed, he is, by definition, ineligible. It's academic fraud any way it's sliced.
The NCAA chooses what rules to enforce and enforces those only when it feels like it against only specific programs.
It's a patently unfair situation. How you can argue that point frankly baffles me. Memphis did no wrong, yet is being punished-- harshly-- for no other reason than the NCAA thinks Rose might have cheated on a test. Maybe.
The SAT test administrators noticed nothing and did not flag the test. Remember, too, you must provide proof you are who you say you are with a picture ID. The proctors of the test noticed nothing amiss at the test site as well.
He was cleared to play by the NCAA Eligibility Board before and during his freshman year while at Memphis.
ETS invalidated Rose's test score because he refused to respond to 2 inquiries about the validity of the score. That is the bottom line. Regardless of when things came to light, Rose's test score was no good and he was ineligible.
Are the NCAA's rules impossible to comprehend and seemingly haphazardly enforced? Yes. But is it better than it used to be with SMU and UK and the majority of the SEC running roughshod over the very definition of amateurism? Also yes. And also that the NCAA is not perfect in doling out punishment is no excuse for the Memphis situation. Schools know if they have a kid that breaks the rules, they will be punished, not the kid that broke the rule. It is the reality they operate in.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
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