Memphis vacates 07/08 wins

[Guest VicNabb]

WOW. Sucks for them.

The NCAA Committee on Infractions just released its decision on Memphis, a decision that includes punishment for major infractions. And the penalty is basically to tell us it never happened.

 

Unless the folks in Indianapolis have the ability to give group-rate lobotomies and erase the memories of every college basketball fan circa 2007-08, vacating the Final Four means nothing. I was there. I saw it. So did 43,257 other people in San Antonio and millions more on television. The NCAA can mandate a whole lot of things with that gigantic rulebook. It cannot, at last check, control minds.

 

Without question this is an embarrassment to Memphis and to John Calipari. The Tigers' shining moment and Calipari's crowning coaching achievement to date are tainted. That will hurt, haunt and sting Memphis fans forever. It will be a line in Calipari's bio until he retires -- perhaps the one that keeps him out of the Hall of Fame.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=4411875

[misterx]

iknow, really sucks, i feel bad

[La Bomba]

They can take the banners and the wins away, but they will never take away the memories.

 

And Calipari saying he didn't know is the biggest bull[expletive] I've ever seen. Of course he knew. Rose fails his ACT three times, magically passes it when he goes to Detroit to watch a Bulls game. How many people just happen to pass a standardized test in another city after failing it three times. Cal's good friend World Wide Wes just happened to be there too and Rose's ACT just happened to be in a different hand writing.

 

I blame Calipari and R.C. Johnson. Calipari is a good coach, but he should be an unemployed coach.