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re: People who cry about Cal/UK cheating
Posted on 2/17/15 at 4:31 pm to Killean
Posted on 2/17/15 at 4:31 pm to Killean
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Your link doesn't support anything you claim. Aside from the point shaving, which obviously Rupp would have done something about had he known, nothing is alleged against Rupp, Joe B. Hall or Pitino. I'll give you that Eddie Sutton cheated; that's why he was fired after 4 seasons.
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In his 1931-72 reign at Kentucky, the abrasive Rupp became noted for his ability to disregard and flaunt recruiting legality and remuneration limits for his players. As Ken Johnson, the incomparable KU court historian in Des Moines, points out: “In the 1930s and ’40s, 386 of the Wildcat wins were generated when there was virtually no oversight in college basketball. Transgressions never were penalized. Since then, though, the Kentucky basketball program has continuously been documented as one of the most criminal of all NCAA Division I schools.
“Rupp’s 1952-53 squad was nailed with what amounted to the NCAA’s first death penalty (cancelled season) because of payments to players. It all came to light during an investigation into a point-shaving scandal involving players during the ’49 season.” Kentucky won the NCAA title in ’48, ’49 and ’51 at the height of the horrendous fixing scandals; the NCAA never rescinded a trophy or a single victory.
A judge called Rupp’s UK program the acme of commercialization and overemphasis. He said he found covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, illegal recruiting, reckless disregard for physical welfare, matriculation of unqualified students and flagrant abuse of the athletic scholarship concept.
crickets........
Posted on 2/17/15 at 4:38 pm to swinetime
I've already addressed this material. By it's own admission it was written by a Kansas basketball "historian" No bias there
This post was edited on 2/17/15 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 2/17/15 at 4:53 pm to swinetime
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Eddie Sutton cheated
How much did he get away with in Fayetteville? Its hard to imagine that one day in Lexington he just said,"jeepers, I need to bend the rules." Had to have started at Arkansas if not at Creighton.
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