Re. Shady Calipari's Memphis Cheaters & Chetey Petey

The story of Memphis getting slapped down by the NCAA is kind of funny. Here are few reasons:

• First, is it really all that shocking given Calipari's previous history? I don't really write about recruiting because I find blogging about it on a day to day basis kind of boring (BTW if others are interested though, go crazy). But I do follow it very closely and keep track of conversations. And given what we have heard of Calipari over the years this is like watching Bill Splashme discovering Chetey Petey doesn't follow the the rules. So I just had to kind of laugh when I read the story about Memphis getting busted without Calipari having to suffer any kind of consequences. I don't expect anything else from the incompetent toolbags running the NCAA.
• Second, it's funny that it didn't take NCAA that long to at least come down with some sort of punishment on Memphis (even though they are totally allowing Calipari to skate around freely). That just puts in context how pathetic they look wrt to dealing with the mountain of scandals from the cesspool that is Mike Garrett's athletic program. Again that goes back to the last setence of my first bullet point. This is an organization that is run by bunch of incompetent toolbags.

Going back to Memphis of course this totally negates their "victory" over UCLA. You can bet that without Rose they wouldn't have any kind of shot against the Ben Ball warriors from the 2008 season. We got cheated pure and simple. And even writers such as Jill Painter in the Daily News (who normally don't wade into with black and white positions) recognize how NCAA cheated UCLA out of a shot at number 12:

How could the NCAA not know that Rose, one of the top recruits in the nation, traveled to another state to take the SAT after three failed attempts and miraculously netted a qualifying score one month before enrolling? How did that not smell as fishy as the stuff former Memphis coach John Calipari serves at Cal's Championship Steakhouse in the Tennessee city?

Memphis even knew the Educational Testing Service invalidated the player's SAT score, thus making him ineligible, midway through his freshman season.

Without Rose, Memphis was still a good team, but maybe not a Final Four team.

Painter didn't stop there. She went straight after the Culprit in Chief:

Calipari left Memphis for Kentucky this year and became the highest-paid coach in college basketball. UMass is paying the price. And so are schools like UCLA. But not Calipari.

Calipari was at a state fair in Kentucky on Thursday when news broke. He was too busy basking in Southern cheer to worry about vacating victories. He got away with a crime again and doesn't have to do any time.

Well Jill. We can probably say the same thing about Chetey Petey from cross town. Perhaps you guys can start calling on the NCAA to do something about his renegade program right now so that he doesn't continue to pull off on a yearly basis what Calipari did it in both Massachusetts and Memphis.

I guess the lesson for big time coaches here is simple. Nothing wrong with not following the rules. The NCAA will not come after you. They are powerless to punish you. 

Just don't fill out any March Madness brackets thought. That's when all hell will break lose.

GO BRUINS.