… you sure find ways to let your opinions override them. And your reflexive “defend Smith at every opportunity, even when he doesn’t need defending” is really annoying.

From The Sporting News:

Parker is 6-8, 255 pounds and last year averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds at Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia. Nearly every recruiting analyst ranks him among the top 15 players in the incoming freshman class. He signed with North Carolina, but the university denied him admission early last month because an SAT score he received in the spring was invalidated. UNC suspected his score on the ACT, which showed a dramatic improvement similar to the spring SAT score, also would be set aside.

Do you see that part in bold up there? Parker had an SAT score invalidated because of an unusually high increase, exactly the same situation as Robert Dozier and Doneal Mack. Yes, Parker was qualified when Smith offered him a scholarship just like Dozier and Mack were when they signed with Memphis, but Parker was suspected of similar academic fraud based on an invalidated SAT score, just like Dozier and Mack. In fact, exactly like them.

Forget how Parker got qualified, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind he was. I’m positive UK checked that out thoroughly, just like Memphis in the case of Mack and Dozier. But if it is “shady” for Calipari to admit players suspected of academic fraud, it was shady for Smith to do so. My point is, none of those cases are shady.