Bingo! We have a winner. The NCAA is a voluntary association made up of members who voluntarily join the organization and agree to abide by its rules and regulations. If you don't like the NCAA, you are free to remove yourself from the organization and thereby relieving yourself of its rules and regulations. I've been there and done that and ultimately, this is where it will end. TSSAA is the same type organization. Unless discrimination or some type of right is infringed, the courts will ultimately not intervene. Furthermore, if they rule him eligible without penalty, no member school can do anything about that, even if a situation is almost identical to one in which a different outcome was decided. If they want to declare Memphis ineligible for tournament play because of it, no one can do anything about that as long as it follows its administrative remedies to allow an appeal to be heard. NCAA is the prosecutor, judge and jury for its member Universities. Often times the real problem turns out to be the delay in the system for the administrative remedies available.
I dnt understand how he is dirty when these kids have been playing for him for years. Those kids from East where always going to go to memphis once he was hired. Lomax has been living in his house since 5th grade. Most of his kids played for him at Lester middle school. Their being punished for an act that literally has nothing to do with the NCAA. This is a TSSAA isuue. The fact that the Wiseman's case was already closed in May now its reopened suggests alot of people are jealous of the guy and i think Calipari got the NCAA to reopen the case becuase he didnt go to Kentucky.
Yep and he should have known this was going to happen! He had been recruiting kids for East well before he was head coach through the AAU programs. Nothing has changed and he had the nerve to jump on Barnes for nothing. I hope he is half the helping poor folks man as so many think he is. Arrogant to a fault I am thinking. I have lived in the area since he was in high school and I have seen how he has progressed and he was a good kid back in the day. Money has a way of changing people and most often not for the good.
This is how high school basketball works around the country. Every top high school baskeball team recruits its kids (ever heard of IMG, Montverde, Oak Hill). How has money changed him?? He took less money then Tubby. The man only got into coaching becuase of a dying friend. He has basically raised half the players on that team since middle school. If im a high school player, and my high school coach whom i have won multiple championships with gets a college job, where do u think im going?? Now had all these kids been from other areas with no prior connections i would be with u, but the fact that 5 of his players played multiple years of middle/ high school together, 8 played AAU together, and Wiseman stayed at East for his senior year after Penny left, tells u there was a great chance that core would stay together. Memphis is probably the only place where that could have happened. U said u lived in the area so u know how important Penny is to that city and what he means to the community. There was no investigation when Calipari took an entire recruiting class to KY with him that was either committed or signed a NLI to Memphis. There was no investigation when Kansas hired Keelon Lawson to insure the Lawson bros transfered to Kansas last year. The only reason Chandler Lawson who also played at East went to Oregon is becuase Keelon got fired by Tubby. This is only a story becuase Calipari couldnt get DJ Jefferies and James Wiseman to Kentucky simple as that
