New Recruiting Violations Alleged Against Calipari
by Achilles on Apr 2, 2011 6:16 AM PDT
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New allegations have emerged about potential recruiting violation in John Calipari's regime in Kentucky. FoxSports reports on the eve of the Final-4:
But forgotten in Calipari's quick turnaround of Kentucky is a native of this bustling metroplex who was instrumental in the Wildcats' resurrection: Bilal Batley.
Batley abruptly resigned as assistant director of basketball operations/manager after he violated NCAA rules by rebounding for a player during a workout in July 2009. Kentucky self-reported the secondary violation and sent Batley a letter of admonishment.
Batley's job did not allow him to have on-court interaction with players. When he resigned, a team spokesman said he did so to return home because of an illness in his family.
But a nearly two-year FOXSports.com investigation revealed that Batley also broke NCAA rules by making repeated impermissible telephone calls while at both Memphis and Kentucky to recruits, such as DeMarcus Cousins, and their parents.
There is nothing surprising about that report. The story has enough ammo for both Calipari haters to pour it on and Kentucky fans to rush to a defense of plausible deniability. FoxSports.com did a little digging around though and found this Bilal character to be an odd guy.
His checkered past includes stint with other coaching figure of question character:
Batley then left Navarro and became a student manager at Oklahoma under then-Sooners coach Kelvin Sampson, who along with his assistants was found by the NCAA to have made 577 impermissible telephone calls to recruits from 2000 to 2004.
One of the recruits Bilal was pursuing at IU ended up a Calipari's Memphis program.
The story is not going to be some kind of silver bullet for the Calipari haters but it will just add to the questions around who some refer to as "the sleaziest coach in a sleazy game."
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Obviously, Today Is April 2
and none of us will question whether this is an April Fools post. Why are we not shocked?
This morning, Jerome Solomon — a sports writer with the Houston Chronicle — used a great concept when discussing the dismissal of TSU’s football coach for alleged violations (a coach who had violations in his past, before TSU hired him).
Said Solomon about how the NCAA reacts to these things:
The NCAA catches a driver running a red light and gives the ticket to the next car through the intersection.
At some point, the NCAA has to put coaches on probation. If it can legally limit the mobility of players and sanction schools, I cannot see why it cannot do the same with coaches. Until people like Calapari are held personally accountable, we will have programs like Kentucky tainting the validity of the Final Four.
sjh
Well, they are going after Lane Violation.
If they nail him, it hopefully opens the floodgates to go after other repeat offenders.
The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden
Wow, did my comment really get erased?!
It was a joke! Of course we know he was and is a sleaze. No one here should be shocked by this news.
formerly Westwood78
Player shoots from free throw line/3/wherever...
player misses or makes, you pass the ball back to the player so he doesn’t have to fetch it himself.
Roses are red, violets are blue...f*** $C.
Source: Calipari wants back return to NBA
Calipari may pull the Cheat Carroll move and leave to the NBA (in Carroll’s case the NFL) right before he gets busted.
It's a little difficult to find in the article, so here it is.
“John Calipari coming back to the NBA to coach? Perhaps. Calipari recently left the distinct impression that, although he is recruiting and conducting business, as usual, as Kentucky’s basketball coach, he “wants back in,” according to a source. Calipari has never gotten over how he was fired by the Nets 20 games into the 1999 lockout season. He was dismissed by one of the owners, Lewis Katz, only a couple of hours after a loss in Miami that dropped the Nets’ record to 3-17. As the team was on the tarmac, preparing to board its charter flight, Katz told Calipari, “You’re not going to Toronto, John.” Calipari’s stock has risen in recent seasons among more than a few GMs, and he’s got close ties to William (Wes’) Wesley, the CAA powerbroker who has an in with several teams, including Miami, via CAA clients, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, and the Knicks, with Anthony, another CAA’er."
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