Shocker! NCAA to Investigate Memphis Hoops Booster
College Basketball August 1st. 2008, 11:15am
John Calipari, please pick up line four. It’s [enter ACC/Big East/NBA team here] and in lieu of Jeff Goodman’s report over at Fox Sports, you may want to pick up this time:
When Oseye Gaddy placed down the phone at her desk, she was unable to contain her excitement. She had just gotten off the phone with the CEO of her company. Out of 190,000 employees throughout the world, FedEx Express president and CEO David Bronczek, one of the company’s most influential executives, had chosen to reach out to an ordinary customer service representative, working across the country in Tacoma, Wash.
But Gaddy is hardly your average customer service rep these days. She’s also the mother of one of the most highly-sought-after and uncommitted basketball recruits in the country, Abdul Gaddy. And Bronczek is not merely a CEO. He is also a booster of the University of Memphis basketball program.
Coach Cal’s plans this weekend include a trip to the tennis courts to work on his (top)spin.
NCAA to investigate Memphis booster’s phone call (Fox Sports)
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August 1st, 2008 at 11:20 am
So…When are they going to investigate Ohio State Boosters?
August 1st, 2008 at 11:22 am
I wonder if John Chaney tipped off the NCAA
August 1st, 2008 at 11:22 am
I’m shocked.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:23 am
Did someone mention O$U???
August 1st, 2008 at 11:25 am
Did Bronczek call her from the Plush Club? Now that would have been chutzpah!
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/sep/05/5tigers/
August 1st, 2008 at 11:26 am
Shocked.
/sincere
August 1st, 2008 at 11:26 am
30 arrests in 7 years is less than 42 arrests in 6 years, but with sweatervest going like he is, ESPN will have to sit down with him and chat about text messages fairly shortly…
August 1st, 2008 at 11:26 am
the AD director said they hand out a brochure to every donor outlining what actions are permissible. Im hoping this is a honest mistake
I’m sure Bronczek personally calls all the parents working at FedEx and tells them how good their children are and what a great job they are doing raising them. That is what all CEO’s do right?
August 1st, 2008 at 11:27 am
This sounds fishy but not too serious; isn’t the worst punishment for Memphis that they will be ineligible to sign him to play for them?
August 1st, 2008 at 11:27 am
paging Bob Ley …
August 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
This sounds fishy but not too serious; isn’t the worst punishment for Memphis that they will be ineligible to Pay him to play for them?
/Fixed
August 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
+1 Professor for Plush Club reference. If any booster had brains, they would buy that club and close it down, immediately reducing opportunity for Memphis players to get in trouble.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am
Not surprising, but there is an extra side of arrogance here.
That CEO probably interrupted negotiations to outsource Oseye Gaddy’s customer service job to India in order to place that call to her.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am
Memphis has a habit of recruiting kids who may or may not qualify, and problem kids in general
August 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am
i need to get back to bashing people. i don’t have the chops to argue the merits of a baseball trade on the fly. Cal is a greasy cheat.
/much better
August 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
ummm, TBL, I know it’s friday and I’m a little retarded by the end of the week, but I don’t understand how your response to my punishment question actually relates to the question.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:37 am
This just in…Oseye Gaddy was just named the Senior VP of Awesomeness at FedEx
August 1st, 2008 at 11:40 am
/fixed for truthiness
August 1st, 2008 at 11:40 am
at least michigan ran a clean program
August 1st, 2008 at 11:41 am
Threadjack.
Don’t fuck with Steve Smith.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/nfl/specials/preview/2008/08/01/panthers.ap/index.html
August 1st, 2008 at 11:41 am
Screw this guy. He can’t beat Pearl even when he cheats anyway.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:42 am
too bad memphis couldn’t beat out baylor for john wall
http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?sport=2&pr_key=68235
August 1st, 2008 at 11:43 am
I think they should significantly reduce the time period in which schools are allowed to recruit (must be a senior in HS, perhaps?) and just start paying the players.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:44 am
RE: Steve Smith
Must be the juice talking…
August 1st, 2008 at 11:45 am
shut the fuck up Michigan fans…keep acting like little bitches…and hey, WVU is on top of the Fulmer Cup standings…have fun when that comes your way.
/waiting for stock response about Dick Rod not having to recruit those types of players…even tho he his a fucking cockwallet
//1-6 in the last 7. Hart, Henne, Long…michigan legends…0-4
///arrogance and condescension is fucking disgusting…go fuck yoruselves. beat app state and then talk shit.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:46 am
What does this have to do with Brett Favre?
August 1st, 2008 at 11:47 am
On a semi-related note – 1st football coaches poll is out.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:48 am
The greasiest of the greasy is housed in Memphis. There are wannabes and there are imitators, but there is only one Coach Cal.
He is the next generation Larry Brown.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:49 am
FYI : The Lions can have Mike Williams back – he got cut again.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:51 am
///arrogance and condescension is fucking disgusting…go fuck yoruselves. beat app state and then talk shit.
Beat a SEC team………pussy
August 1st, 2008 at 11:51 am
Yeah that was in the roundup fluffy.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:52 am
Uhhhh… I am pretty sure no Michigan player ever did THAT…
August 1st, 2008 at 11:54 am
unrelated: Just put down some coin on Georgia to win the national title, +700
August 1st, 2008 at 11:55 am
beat OHIO STATE…dumbass.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:58 am
@tbl -
Like the Dawgs talent. Don’t like the Dawgs schedule.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
It’s Friday, what’s up with the hostility?..alot of you are being very undude.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I wonder if Calipari found a loophole, if a FedEx CEO called a FedEx employee.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:01 pm
The charges are later dropped, when the girl’s parents choose not to have their daughter testify in court.
Parents were OSU fans, dad probably wears a sweater vest.