NCAA Punishes Sydney
good thing we didn't add him or else this season would've been catastrophic!
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I wonder
Why he was even being recruited by UCLA? I am also wondering why we are going after recruits such as Terrence Jones and CJ Giles.
I've always been suspicious of that short lived flirtation.
I remember he was “all USC all the time” until the very end when he magically opened his ears to us. Then all the dirty laundry comes out. It was just too much like Nixon Dirty Tricks if you know what you mean.
But, I hear what you are saying. Ben and his boys should have been well vetted on him and never taken a sniff when he did in fact show us interest.
The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden
I don't think that's really what happened
There was someone on Bruinzone (the same guy that accurately called Love, Holiday and Morgan for UCLA) that consistently said that Sidney wanted to come to UCLA and that UCLA was always Sidney’s favorite school. I don’t recall anyone ever saying that Sidney was being recruited hard, and before he made his decision it was clear that UCLA didn’t want him.
by SuperBruinMan on Mar 6, 2010 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
Howland and his staff inquired about Sidney
and were considering him for a little period of time until the stories around him became obvious.
As a coach
You have to at least check it out when there’s a chance of getting a star recruit (supposedly).
by LavinRuinedCollege on Mar 7, 2010 2:05 PM PST up reply actions
Now actually deciding to sign despite all the info...
Then that’s a different story.
by LavinRuinedCollege on Mar 7, 2010 2:06 PM PST up reply actions
Mexi
Be careful about the Nixon Dirty Tricks stuff, some of them learned their craft as Bruins. :(
Geezer in training.
I don't know much about it but
Haldeman went to both USC and UCLA. I think his name is on the plaque outside Pauley. Ehrlichman went to UCLA.
by SuperBruinMan on Mar 7, 2010 3:29 PM PST up reply actions
Chapin and Segretti were trogans
they were the “dirty tricks” guys.
I went to high school with Dwight Chapin. He was a good guy. sc must have turned him.
sjh
Ronald Ziegler was a trogan
Many of the dirty guys met at J. Walter Thompson, the big time ad agency.
sjh
So what happens when he goes to the NBA?
Miss. State just walks? Yeah, that sounds good. Sydney was the only person in the world who knew he was cheating.
Even though the story could be describing OJ2 or bu$h, why do I still think that the outcome will be different for just$c*?
Mississippi St. gets no penalties
because they never did anything wrong. There’s nothing wrong with bringing Sidney to the school because he never played for the team. He can’t be subject to the NCAA rules if he never competed in a NCAA event.
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by Ryan Rosenblatt on Mar 8, 2010 12:44 PM PST up reply actions
I thought he played
so I looked up Miss St’s stats and it sure does show he played. One game and zero minutes. (I’m not sure how that can happen.) I guess this is akin to the question about if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, is the husband still wrong, but the fact that Miss State recruited him, showed him on the roster, gave him a scholarship and (I suppose) allowed him to practice with the team ought to count for something. Think about the OJ2 and Timmeh saga. There were violations before he ever played. If he had not been allowed to play, that might have been a mitigating factor, but there were still violations. I think the same thing should be true of Miss State.
But then, I’m not on the ncaa needlepoint and quilting study group, aka the enforcement committee.
Yahoo is wrong
They say he played 0 minutes and had 1 steal in a midseason game against Florida. He doesn’t appear in the boxscore for the game, and no other website says he played in that game.
by SuperBruinMan on Mar 9, 2010 12:46 AM PST up reply actions
Phew
Reading the headline, I was afraid to read that the college HOF had accepted Christian Laettner, but had rejected Sidney Wicks. Glad to see that I was just behind in news.
In the meantime…
“Our members have made it crystal clear that student-athletes who receive impermissible benefits, either directly or indirectly, and who lie to the NCAA must be held accountable,” said Kevin Lennon, vice president for academic and membership affairs
We’ll see.
~ $11k and 9 games
Compared to OJ2, Sidney could have been a good value pickup for $c.
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