Kentucky/Bledsoe investigation

#52
#52
Special Ed said:
...over this Bledsoe matter? I can't tell because I haven't read anything and, if I have, then any information I do have is apt to disappear. Therefore, I won't go into any detail. My time and effort have been wasted enough already. But, I have to wonder now if anyone else thinks this matter affects the Vols. Thanks.

:crazy:
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uh...What?
 
#53
#53
Anyone notice who wrote the article? He is a very familiar person to us. Hostess gate and Bledsoe gate will probably turn out to be nothing.
 
#54
#54
ukvols said:
Catspause poster: "Can I be honest for a second? IDC if in 10 years down the road, we have a National Title banner taken down, we still won the damn thing. UK basketball is fun to watch again. I'd rather have penalty upon penalty watching awesome basketball opposed to doing things the right way and making the NIT. That's just how I feel about it personally."
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LOL...actually no...you would NOT have won the damn thing.
 
#55
#55
Cal escaped Memphis with no issues, left the punishment with the School. I have to belieive the NCAA will put him up against a wall if there is truth here.
 
#56
#56
I have been out on the houseboat all weekend, and quite frankly have found myself not giving a damn.

Color me, not surprised.


However, I don't think this is a Cal issue as much as it is the type of player that he goes after. Its a risk you take with extremely POOR kids who know that they will be highly sought after. They are dumb enough to accept gifts and think that it will remain under the table. Therefore, I think whole Cal lynch mob thing is a little out of hand. Bledsoes high school of 3 years closed down, and he transferred to a new school out of his district. The coach of that school paid the rent at the new house that they moved into, so its said. I doubt Calipari stroked a check to that coach. Bledsoe was recruited by a bunch of schools, who would all be caught in this same situation. If he had went to Florida, the same insinuations would not be made.


I'm prepared for a vacation season. Thank God Bowling Green is a wet city.
 
#57
#57
LAVolfan said:
N.C.A.A. Is Looking Into Former Kentucky Player - NYTimes.com

Pretty interesting read. Looks like Cal could be up to his old tricks.
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Has anybody crunched the numbers to find out what kind of GPA Bledsoe would have needed to go from a 1.9 GPA after his junior year to get a 2.475 at the end of his senior year? :unsure:

To meet the N.C.A.A.’s minimum requirements, he would have needed to receive mostly A’s at Parker. Ford said that Bledsoe’s sum ACT score was a 69, which meant he needed to jump from about a 1.9 to a 2.475 in core courses, according to the N.C.A.A.’s sliding eligibility scale.
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#58
#58
cotton said:
I wonder what National Title banner he means. Best I can tell, Bledsoe didn't have anything to do with any of them, unless UK was awarded a secret national title for the most recent season.
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He was saying that if they won one in the next 10 years, he wouldn't care if it was torn down. :ermm:
 
#64
#64
Lots of schools were recruiting him hard, that part is true. However, at least a few of these schools claim to have backed off for some reason(most initially thought it was grades). I know Florida and Bama both claim they quit recruiting him. I remember that UT was pushing hard for him and then something happened there as well. Maybe it was grades, maybe there was a party involved on his side that was asking for a little cash. I really don't know.
 
#70
#70
I heard the NCAA is looking into CAL buying Tyler Smith a handgun and three others weed to transfer to UK for the practice squad? High School grades? Felonies?
 
#71
#71
Rasputin_Vol said:
Has anybody crunched the numbers to find out what kind of GPA Bledsoe would have needed to go from a 1.9 GPA after his junior year to get a 2.475 at the end of his senior year? :unsure:
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Schools calculate it differently, but the way I figured it up (with an average of 5 classes a semester), he would've had to make a 4.2.

I'm sure that's not correct, but I'm guessing he would've had to make close to straight A's...
 
#72
#72
hvwarrior58 said:
Lots of schools were recruiting him hard, that part is true. However, at least a few of these schools claim to have backed off for some reason(most initially thought it was grades). I know Florida and Bama both claim they quit recruiting him. I remember that UT was pushing hard for him and then something happened there as well. Maybe it was grades, maybe there was a party involved on his side that was asking for a little cash. I really don't know.
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Not to try and just dismiss the theory, but the whole "we quit" thing is a way to save face and act as though you didn't completely whiff or get rejected in the public eye. It happens all the time.

For shats and giggles, lets apply the current Calipari logic to this scenario. All rival fans claim the following:

1) Calipari is a cheater.
2) Calipari is a slimeball.
3) Calipari is dirty.
4) Calipari is better than anyone at 1,2, and 3.

So, someone expects me to believe that SOMEHOW Donovan and Pearl were able to magically find out something on Bledsoe that the most cheating, slimey, dirt bag in all of college basketball DIDN'T know a few days before he committed? C'mon now.....
 
#74
#74
gorockytop101 said:
Schools calculate it differently, but the way I figured it up (with an average of 5 classes a semester), he would've had to make a 4.2.

I'm sure that's not correct, but I'm guessing he would've had to make close to straight A's...
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Yeah, it depends on what % of the core classes were completed in the senior year. Suppose it were 25%. 2.475 required average * 4 years = 9.9 total needed. 1.92 (I think it was actually 1.92) * 3 years completed = 5.76. 9.9 - 5.76 = 4.14.

He basically needed to go from Cs and Ds to straight As to have a shot.
 
#75
#75
volwarrior33 said:
You do realize Memphis had all of their games vacated that year, right?
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And the statements still stands, Cal was not implicated by name in the findings= the NCAA found no wrongdoing on Cal's part.
 
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