re: So why are Calipari's teams clean now?

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but both schools were implicated by the NCAA in Cal's situations. Just not Cal....because both incidents happened well outside the walls of the campus basketball programs

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Just goes to show you the difference between what the NCAA can prove and what fans think happened. Just because Calipari has never been implicated himself doesn't mean he is innocent.

No coach of any winning program in either football or basketball is "completely innocent". You're a fool if you think otherwise.

That's not the graduation rate though. That's the APR. Basically there is a formula that rewards teams for having players leave in good academic standing.

I believe graduation rate factors in a very small amount in the formula. The much more important thing is for guys to leave in good academic standing, with the corresponding credits necessary for their class.

A guy like Avery Bradley packing up all of his stuff and moving back to Seattle in April really fricks over Texas, for example.

KY could still have some problems thuogh. Daniel Orton and Eric Bledsoe left the university in poor academic standing, and they will hurt the university's APR. John Wall on the other hand left with a 3.0 I believe. If he never comes back, it still won't hurt the APR because he took enough classes and had good grades. Knight is a smart guy and I have no doubt he left in good standing as well.

It just depends on whether Davis, Jones, Teague, etc bother to finish out the semester.

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so you don't like him because he "may" be guilty?

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Never said I didn't like him, just said that I'm not naive to think that he is innocent either.

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Why would it be anonymous if it was true?

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It depends on who the source is. My guess, and it is really just a complete guess, is that an assistant coach from Illinois or DePaul or a similar program said it to the Sun-Times guy. The Sun-Times guy published it, but the editors were uncomfortable running something on hearsay.

I've talked with a couple of big name national writers about investigative reporting, and this came up, and they didn't know much about the merit of the Davis allegations (although they cover football more than basketball), so that also lowers the credibility of the article in my eyes. The sportswriting community is tightly knit, and they give each other a lot of credit for good work.

LE, the article basically said that UK paid Anthony Davis $200,000 to go there. It has since been retracted. LINK

they will forfeit title within 3 years..

one of the two "priors" on Calipari is that one of his players got an agent before the tournament was over. that is not on Cal.

I don't think he did anything for Orton. He's shown nothing since his junior year of high school. How he was drafted in the first round is still puzzling me.

But I agree with you otherwise. Cal uses the one and done model to his advantage. It's a risky strategy. If he doesn't get his guys, his team may not be NIT worthy, but he casts a VERY wide net and brings in 4 or 5 top 50 prospects each year. When two of them are in the top 5 or top 10, it's even better.

His teams are never deep. The freshmen play. If they live up to the hype, they are done and in the league after 2 years at most.

He didn't do this at Memphis for the most part. Rose and Tyreke were his only two one and dones, along with Shawne Williams who shouldn't have left after a year.

His first Kentucky class panned out big time, and he's been able to get top tier guys since. I am curious about this year, especially if Shabazz goes to UCLA.

Those guys were top 5 recruits that Roy stashed on the bench in an effort to get twi years out of them. Orton and bledsoe were ranked around 30 and had no one and done hype, completely different situations.