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Monday, January 10, 2011
Neither Calipari nor UK spokesman DeWayne Peevy say the option for Enes Kanter to seek a court injunction blocking the NCAA ruling is dead
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TeamWeaver
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I would appreciate it if you'd tell us when you're linking a Jerry Tipton article so I can skip that one. There is no reason to give his blog posts hits they don't deserve.
More than once Monday, Kentucky Coach John Calipari noted how long it took the NCAA to rule freshman Enes Kanter permanently ineligible.
But didn’t UK drag out the case by appealing decisions? More than once, the school sought appeals of earlier decisions that Kanter could never play college basketball.
“We were told to appeal,” Calipari said. “Why would we do anything (to drag it out). (Just) say it!.”
Well, not exactly, UK spokesman DeWayne Peevy said.
“The NCAA never told us to appeal,” Peevy said before adding, “They never said it was, like, a moot point.”
UK seized on that opening, Peevy said. Any opening would have sufficed.
“You don’t want to feel you’ve not done everything,” Peevy said.
Peevy said that the first appeal was a joint decision of all parties: presumably UK, the basketball program and the Kanter family.
A favorable result in such cases is typically made by an appeals panel, Peevy said.
The second appeal, which was believed to be based on a NCAA decision allowing Auburn quarterback Cam Newton to continue playing despite his father admitting trying to sell his son’s services, was a decision made by Kanter’s family, Peevy said.
Neither Calipari nor Peevy said the option to seek a court injunction blocking the NCAA ruling was dead. Neither embraced the option.
“(Kanter) hasn’t brought that up at all,” Peevy said. “I’ve not talked to him about it. He probably doesn’t know what that means.”
6 comments:
I would appreciate it if you'd tell us when you're linking a Jerry Tipton article so I can skip that one. There is no reason to give his blog posts hits they don't deserve.
Here you go:
More than once Monday, Kentucky Coach John Calipari noted how long it took the NCAA to rule freshman Enes Kanter permanently ineligible.
But didn’t UK drag out the case by appealing decisions? More than once, the school sought appeals of earlier decisions that Kanter could never play college basketball.
“We were told to appeal,” Calipari said. “Why would we do anything (to drag it out). (Just) say it!.”
Well, not exactly, UK spokesman DeWayne Peevy said.
“The NCAA never told us to appeal,” Peevy said before adding, “They never said it was, like, a moot point.”
UK seized on that opening, Peevy said. Any opening would have sufficed.
“You don’t want to feel you’ve not done everything,” Peevy said.
Peevy said that the first appeal was a joint decision of all parties: presumably UK, the basketball program and the Kanter family.
A favorable result in such cases is typically made by an appeals panel, Peevy said.
The second appeal, which was believed to be based on a NCAA decision allowing Auburn quarterback Cam Newton to continue playing despite his father admitting trying to sell his son’s services, was a decision made by Kanter’s family, Peevy said.
Neither Calipari nor Peevy said the option to seek a court injunction blocking the NCAA ruling was dead. Neither embraced the option.
“(Kanter) hasn’t brought that up at all,” Peevy said. “I’ve not talked to him about it. He probably doesn’t know what that means.”
I wish they would pursue the injunction against the NCAA ruling. It really flies in the face of logic and needs another perspective.
Marc,
Just like Bledsoe... use your own advice.
"NCAA has ruled..........move on"
-Marc
Well played Sir!
Tony Tipton!
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