Welcome to the future of UK basketball...

Post by **ditzywonder** » Thu May 28, 2009 11:09 pm

i remember how psyched we all were when gillespie came at big blue madness too....i think its more of a time will tell thing. screw all the millions being tossed around, i just wanna see some of the new kids play!!!!

Post by **jordancolburn** » Fri May 29, 2009 2:21 pm

Calipari has already had a final four taken away, and a lot of suspicious behavior tends to follow him. Coaches are pretty good at isolating themselves, so that when the crap hits the fan, they get a nice new job, and the school is stuck with all the penalties(see indiana). NCAA needs to be much more strict on coaches who allow their programs to be run in the gray area.

Post by **Toy** » Fri May 29, 2009 3:58 pm

Calipari has already had a final four taken away

How could Calipari, or any other coach, keep Camby from taking money from an agent? For that matter, do you really think Calapari changed a kid's high school transcript, or had it changed? C'mon man. This has Booster Club written all over it.

Post by **Crankmas** » Sun May 31, 2009 1:41 pm

how is that Pitino is ghey scandal coming along??

Post by **tbwilsonky** » Sun May 31, 2009 3:05 pm

its now a pitino is an abortionist scandal. last i heard. the ghey scandal was so much sexier though.

Post by **Steve** » Sun May 31, 2009 3:21 pm

Should've hired Travis or Pelph.

Post by **tbwilsonky** » Sun May 31, 2009 4:22 pm

yeah. then we coulda crushed the NIT next year. i'm kidding. no way we would have made the NIT. patterson and meeks? gone. star recruits? gone. our lineup woulda looked like this:

PG - Liggins
SG - Miller
SF - Hood (maybe)
PF - Harris
C- Stevenson

i'll take seemingly shady wins (without proof of misconduct) over honorable losses anyday. it's just a game anyways, right? plus, if you want to find something to really get your moral fire burning, you might look at how capital flows around (but not to) our 'amateur' athletes:

Coach Pay: 4 million a year
UK Basketball Revenue: 25.4 million a year
Player Pay: Tuition, Room, Board, and sweet UK apparel.

so the one element necessary for a revenue generating college basketball team (players) gets the least amount of compensation? really?

"but tbwilsonky.... they get an education, and you can't put a price on that"

sure you can. $8,450.50 x 8 = price of education. and i think we can all agree the sum is < the value generated by their basketball team playing. and this is assuming most players actually receive a four year degree, which they do not...

"but tbwilsonky.... pay would ruin the spirit of college athletics!!!"

oh noes. heaven forbid we ruin the spirit of college hoops by fairly compensating the boys and girls who make it possible. total disaster.

in the end, the business end of college basketball will probably never change. i mean, why pay players when you can make altruistic arguments about the 'purity of the game' and just keep the money? so i tend to just view the entire thing as an enormous racket and get super-stoked on watching games when the racket swings in our favor....

-t

Post by **Spragwa** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:20 am

Toy wrote:
Calipari has already had a final four taken away
How could Calipari, or any other coach, keep Camby from taking money from an agent? For that matter, do you really think Calapari changed a kid's high school transcript, or had it changed? C'mon man. This has Booster Club written all over it.

Ditto. The deal is that Calipari is a fantastic recruiter. When you recruit at his level the stakes are high. When the stakes are high, some players will cheat to become eligible and/or to maximize earning potential. So far, no dirt has stuck to Calipari. And if you think the NCAA hasn't looked in every nook and cranny to find some then you are either stupid or too naive to suck oxygen. This leads me to believe that he is clean.

Post by **Steve** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:58 pm

While dirt has yet to stick on coach Cal he smells as stinky as the turkey farms outside of Maple Canyon, UT. But you make a great point Sprag, the stakes are high in professional...ummm I mean college basketball.

Give 'em what they want Mitch. The fans (old blue blood boosters and rural folk alike) wanted a hot young recruiter so they run Tubby out and got a complex individual (ie a little crazy, but hey aren't all of us UK fans a bit crazy?) Billy G. That didn't work out, no surprise there, so go out and get an even hotter recruiter in Cal. Oh surprise, surprise there is stink at his former institution. I'll root for The Cats either way, I'd just like to see a Kentuckian build the program into what it once was. This whole drama makes RB look awesome, can't wait until football season.

Post by **Wes** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:13 pm

So, does Rick have any kind of "morality clause" in his contract?

http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/story/892425.html