Comments on: What Will the Kentucky Homers Say About John Calipari Now?

By: The General Will Choke You

The General Will Choke You — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:05:39 +0000

shatner,

Everyone cheats not going to argue that, but cal the last 3-4 years has taken it to epic porportions, he has the biggest runner in basketball working for him, WWW, he has had prep schools on the take to get guys eligible, he had his players living in a mansion on campus, fur coats,
and the list can go on and on.

No doubt Memphis enabled him but some of this has to go back to him.

By: sparty

sparty — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:04:15 +0000

but Lewis never had roids in his body

or was caught with roids in his body.

By: The General Will Choke You

The General Will Choke You — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:02:28 +0000

sorry last comment was @SouvenirCity

By: sparty

sparty — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:01:18 +0000

Tom Izzo would like a word with you.
/Izzo walks on water, heals lepers, etc.

yeah he does. dude just got players from detroit within the last couple years.

By: The General Will Choke You

The General Will Choke You — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:00:04 +0000

his biggest mistake is that he took long to get the players he wanted in the system, but I give the guy credit for doing it the way he thinks is right, I just hope he sticks.

In reference to Alford, I wanted to throw up at all the Indiana people who wanted him to get hired. New Mexico is a good spot for him though, no pressure, good arena and you can find some decent overlooked talent on the west coast.

By: tkmsu

tkmsu — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:59:42 +0000

Every major program has bend the rulebook, some more than others

Tom Izzo would like a word with you.

/Izzo walks on water, heals lepers, etc.

By: ThatsSoTaguchi

ThatsSoTaguchi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:59:20 +0000

I think that in the mind of someone willing to cheat the rationalization has already been made. He won the race. I’m sure he thinks (rightly) that many of his competitors were also cheating, and you can’t take the memory of him beating them away from him. Like most cheats I assume he is more embarassed he got caught then anything else.

By: sparty

sparty — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:57:29 +0000

I suspect Ben Johnson quitely thinks he still won though,

he might have, because Lewis had been busted for doping. but Lewis never had roids in his body. Ben Johnson tried to comeback clean, and couldn’t do it. cheated again, and was caught again.

By: ms621

ms621 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:56:36 +0000

I know I’m smacking of homerism here, and very much so. But to act like no other program has cheated is lunacy. Every major program has bend the rulebook, some more than others, and Calipari is a winning coach who has had large issues with this in the past (and this).

While I agree with you that many programs cheat to some extent, that doesn’t mean the NCAA is any less justified in wiping the record books clean after catching the program. The “But everyone else is doing it” argument is not a terribly strong one.

By: sparty

sparty — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:54:56 +0000

I’d like to introduce you to Mr. Ben Johnson.

gonna whore myself out twice in the same post.

and I’m sure he was proud of that even as a drug cheat.

AYFKM? You think he is proud that he broke the record via cheating?