I'll bite. What Brown and Williams did were wrong and the school got punished for those situations. Likewise for Darnell Jackson. If you look at the details of the situations, none of them were really that immoral.
And how is Calipari immoral by comparison?
if the reported details of the Brown situation are correct and that is all that happened, you can make the argument that the school got excessively hammered by the NCAA. Jackson may or may not have had a pre-existing relationship with the booster. All reports point to a pre-existing relationship. That situation occurred during both Roy's and Self's watch at KU. It would be very difficult to find either coach culpable in that situation.
So how is Calipari culpable in the Marcus Camby situation? Both were receiving improper benefits based upon pre existing relationships but somehow you seem to think the burden falls on Calipari but not on Roy or Self.
Regardless, he was suspended when the school SELF REPORTED the situation. Same thing for the Roy's transgressions. Lew Perkins reported it or it may never have been known.
Let's ignore the fact that none of it came out until AFTER Roy Williams had departed and that it had been going on for years. This wasn't a one year "mistake" as Roy deemed it.
J.R. Giddens was dismissed from the team.
Maybe Roy should have been a better judge of character or could it be that young people screw up from time to time..sometimes in pretty bad ways.
KU was given the same information about Darrell Arthur's transcripts as the NCAA clearinghouse who cleared him to play. It would be a major reach to put that on Self.
So Self's not responsible for the Clearinghouse's mistakes but Calipari is?
JaRon Rush was shady and came from a shady AAU program/coach who did not see eye to eye with Williams. Williams stopped recruiting him. One rumor is that he got upset when JaRon referred to him as "Roy."
That flies in the face of the facts (and it was no rumor. Roy Williams, after recruiting JaRon for 5 years, suddenly decided not to recruit him based on public comments Rush made on playing time AFTER he had given a verbal commitment to KU) as reported by Dan Wetzel is his outstanding book "Sole Influence" and confirmed by various other sources both within and outside of the Kansas Basketball Program.
This is really not a subject you do not want to challenge me on.
The one connection you're trying to make that appears valid and relevant to Cal's actions is recruiting over guys. However, there is a big difference between recruiting over guys and pulling the scholly of an unwilling player in favor of a recruit.
Only in the fantasy world you've created. I've read Matt Pilgrim's fathers comments and he understood what happened. I'm aware of what went on behind the scenes and what was said in public too. Adam Williams didn't want to leave UK either but Tubby Smith told him it was for the best and he needed his scholarship. Rick Pitino treated his roster like the waiver wire in his early years at UK.
Kansas is a cutthroat place to play basketball.
So is Kentucky, so is North Carolina..what's your point?
What Cal has done at Kentucky is disgraceful.
Trying to mold a roster that fits his style of play? A roster I might add that had serious flaws and numbers issues because of the two previous regimes mistakes. They didn't have room for the players already committed under Gillispie!
There is also a major difference between NCAA infractions and a complete lack of morals.
Again, please illustrate the differences for me.
KU has acknowledged their infractions and have been justly punished for them.
That's laughable.
Cal may or may not be playing by the rules but there really is no argument to be made about his morals.
What exactly is his immorality again?
The fact that you justify his actions shows your integrity. Keep burying your head in the sand.
My integrity is fine and as I've shown I think it is you who have a head in the sand.
