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Friday, August 28, 2009
Calipari says DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe need to pick it up conditioning wise, Darnell Dodson needs to get stronger, and Daniel Orton still isn't 100 percent Healthy
I can't speak about Cousins, but I've seen Bledsoe and it surprises me that he needs conditioning. He's one of the most athletic guards I've seen in a while.
Also in that article is what I think is an inconsistency regarding Duke/Maggette, his eligibility and their Final Four with him. The NCAA is playing with semantics. Everyone knows/should know you can't take money that's not available to everyone.
Maybe Maggette didn't have actual knowledge that receiving payments from a summer-league coach, over three years no less, made him ineligible to play college ball. But how can the NCAA find with a straight face that no reasonable person in his position should have known?
If it is generally understood that players who take money are ineligible to play college ball, then he should have known. The NCAA didn't have insufficient evidence. It had insufficient will to do the right thing.
As someone who applies the law for a living, I'm here to tell you that no rule, no standard will stand in the way of an adjudicator who starts with the conclusion he wants to reach and then tries to rationalize a way to get there. Clearly, the NCAA knew the result it wanted in Duke's case. Knew before it made any genuine attempt to apply the rules to the facts of the case.
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I can't speak about Cousins, but I've seen Bledsoe and it surprises me that he needs conditioning. He's one of the most athletic guards I've seen in a while.
Also in that article is what I think is an inconsistency regarding Duke/Maggette, his eligibility and their Final Four with him. The NCAA is playing with semantics. Everyone knows/should know you can't take money that's not available to everyone.
Maybe Maggette didn't have actual knowledge that receiving payments from a summer-league coach, over three years no less, made him ineligible to play college ball. But how can the NCAA find with a straight face that no reasonable person in his position should have known?
If it is generally understood that players who take money are ineligible to play college ball, then he should have known. The NCAA didn't have insufficient evidence. It had insufficient will to do the right thing.
As someone who applies the law for a living, I'm here to tell you that no rule, no standard will stand in the way of an adjudicator who starts with the conclusion he wants to reach and then tries to rationalize a way to get there. Clearly, the NCAA knew the result it wanted in Duke's case. Knew before it made any genuine attempt to apply the rules to the facts of the case.
So it is strict accountability, or liability or whatever for Memphis, but for ole the ole Dukie boys it "Well they did not really understand"
What a croc
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