The Big Blue Daily Mail -- News for Kentucky Wildcat fans, May 30th 2009

You need it really badly. Have fun….

Sun, sand, swimming, cocktails, and a little golf, perhaps? — Sounds divine. Enjoy! : )

Tru left for da beach! He most certainly needs his vacation. Lol

Biddle said “Coach Cal lives in that gray zone, where suspicions die without proof.” More appropriate would be – Coach Cal lives in that gray zone, where suspicions live without proof. (Even though there is no gray area. Things are black or white – just ask Jeremy Jarmon)

There’s been no “NCAA official letter of inquiry,” the certain harbinger of doom.

I think this is 100% right. The rest of the article is linked here. Memphis knew there was nothing there to leak, basically. If there were problems, there would have been an “official letter of inquiry”, not a “notice of allegations”.

It looks to me like the NCAA themselves, or the NCAA clearing house, may have been wrong in clearing the named individual player. They told Memphis he was good to go, if I am getting all of this. As far as hitching a ride with the team, I’ll bet that has already been cleared and marked as paid, with a nice paper trail to prove it.
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the NCAA needs to look into, and clean their own closets…

but with those Futures prices, not so sure!!!

Ther are two simple solutions to this kind of stuff. One I’m sure we would all readily agree on, while the other I seriously doubt that NOW many would cast their vote for. #1: the NCAA needs an independant governing body over it. To keep it in check. Any system that has no accountability at the top will abuse it’s powers, this side of heaven. The NCAA’s have famously looked the other way for preferred status programs for as long as I can remember. It has always been a path that leads back to a man named Wooden. That’s how Crum kept his record relatively clean all those years. They should use the same microscope on everyone. They never have, so I don’t know how likely it is that we’ll ever see a change? They have always strained the gnat and swallowed the camel, and then let certain one’s get away with murder. It’s always been ridiculous. But, we need someone to investigate – the investigators! #2: is the one that I know won’t be popular with UK fans NOW. Simply, make the HCoach the one held most accountable for his program. If there are major infractions found, let his head be the one most on the block. Hear me out here. If there was a, say, 3-yr. suspension for the HC of a program found guilty of major violations – 1st offense. 5-yr. suspension for the 2nd offense, how fast do you think the WWW’s would have every door slammed in their face? No access?
Everyone knows how to lay everything off on someone else. I am so sick of the HC always saying that he had nothing to do with anything??!! The guys at the top always have their stooges ready to fall on the sword for them. Make them the one’s held THE MOST accountable for the programs they run. You’d end most if not all the problems right there. Do what is right, end of story. “What” is right should always take the precedent over “who” is right, (or wrong). If a person has nothing to hide, then it’s no big deal, right?! We hide behind the confusion we create. It is most often an intentional smoke screen we set. The more confounding we can make something, the more we can get away with. Stand up and do the right thing, and stop making other people take the fall for you. I’m a big fan of C-Cal, but I’m sorry, I don’t believe for a minute that he’s been completely innocent and didn’t know anything about all the trouble that has followed him around his whole career. If he was still at Memphis, we wouldn’t defend him so staunchly. I want to believe, but I know better. My momma taught me better then that. It’s great that he hasn’t been touched thus far, but there are those connected to him that can’t say that same thing. Most of them are what we call “fans”.

Independent governing body could come from the acedemic side of things, God forbid??!! This wouldn’t necessarily mean outside the orginization, per se, just outside the atheletic side of the organization. I’m sure there would be no shortage of “volunteers” from the acedemic side to step in and help out in this area. However designed, the accountability factor must be put in place to insure integrity in all aspects of the processes. And this accountability factor has to operate in integrity within itself as well, which it is not doing at present time, and never has done so honestly.
The sanctions against coaches part is my pet peeve. I presented the scenario hypothetically just to make the point that there would be a self-cleansing that would take place. The individuals responsible for most of this mess would wind up cleaning up the mess, which is poetic justice to a degree. My beef is by no means with Calipari alone. I genuinely like the guy. Like him alot more then I thought I would. It has just drove me nuts for years that every time you see this stuff, the coach most of the time walks away scott free, or nearly so. Every one else suffers severely, and MOST OF THE TIME, the head man, who is most responsible likely, walks away with a years paid vacation! We need some sweeping changes to take place in the NCAA. We need a good representative to represent us. You available? You sound like your up for the job! (That’s a complement!)

He is very comfortable in Ecquador and a former fighter pilot for the USA. He is enjoying his retirement and righfully so.

We are! Is there something I’m missing in checking the profiles? I have looked at the profiles of several people on here and I’ve never seen anything written there? Just a listing of team favorites, and comments and posts made. Me, I went and wrote my life story! maybe I should erase that?!
I’ll shoot you a personal note WW on a later date. Don’t have time right now. There’s a few things that i’ll share with you that you’ll probably find humerous. Later guys.

This is a very interesting list. I found it on John Clay’s sidelines….Here is the list.

Really… these coaches are well known coaches in NCAA basketball. Though, on second thought, some may want to disagree.
It does appear to have been a very bad year in 1996 for a few teams. I remember we did very well that year.
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I saw where someone questions whether we would get to the BIg Dance with a weak out of conference schedule. Sure, don’t we get to a bowl with our football schedule.? its about the quality of the bowl or the seed you recieve for beating the weaker teams.