The State of UK Basketball for 2011..

[Tim_T]

First of all, the NCAA and it's rules committee is about as inconsistent as J Lo's hairstyles on American Idol. Cam Newton's Dad wanted almost $200K for his son's signature on a letter of intent to Mississippi. NCAA rules Cam ineligible one day but then suddenly found enough reasons to rule him eligible the next. Seems to me that all the investigation that it took to find him ineligible was a big bunch of non-sense if it took less than 24 hours to clear him. "Well we talked to Cam and he said he knew nothing about it, (wink wink) so we thought he should be cleared". Are you telling me that Cam knew nothing of his fathers action. Come on fellas. Ohio State Football has 5 stud players sell jerseys, rings, autographs and who knows what else for tattoos, money and who knows what else but the NCAA lets them pay the money back (the amount that they said they sold the stuff for) and then let them play in the Bowl Game. Big Enes takes money a couple of years ago that he did not think was going to jeopardize his college status, his "DAD" turns down a contract for MILLIONS not a couple of hundred K but MILLIONS to keep his college status ok but the NC "Double Azzholes" rules him PERMANENTLY ineligible, are you kidding me.

If Kanter was playing the Big Blue is undefeated or at least very few losses. This team would be totally different if it had an inside presence. If Cousins had stayed this team would be undefeated. Last years team could not throw it in the ocean outside 10 feet and this years team can't throw it in the ocean from inside 10 feet.

There is no comparison to be made between Cam newton's dad and Kanter.

#1 The NCAA didn't suspend him, Auburn did and the NCAA ruled that he was okay to play so Auburn reinstated him. Kanter was ruled inelgible on two different occasions and after the first ruling was "Permanently inelligible."

#2 There is zero proof that the Newton family recieved any money from anyone, only proff that his dad was shopping him around. That is why the dad was punished but not the son or the team. If they find out later that he indeed took money (the investigation is ongoing from what I understand) then Aubusrn will forfiet the title and all their wins in which he played and will get a nice healthy probabation.


Kanter did take money, they didn't deny it, they didn't even deny that he took $30,000 more than was allowed. The whole case was "He didn't mean to break the rules."

Calipari caused this mess when he kept recruiting him when everybody else stopped.