Kentucky Baskeball: Mike DeCourcy Calls the Big Bovine Excrement on the NCAA
by Glenn Logan on Aug 20, 2009 8:19 PM EDT
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PrintOne of my very favorite sportswriters, Mike DeCorcy, completely debunks the NCAA's reasoning in its case against Memphis. Plus, he brings to light something I did not know, which is very important in this case.
Apparently, the Educational Testing Service invalidated the test in question because the player (presumably Derrick Rose) did not "cooperate" with their inquiries surrounding it. Let me state that again -- Rose claims that he took his test, and the ETS does not dispute that. Rather, they are taking the word of a handwriting expert (a very dodgy bit of evidence) and the fact that Rose did not "cooperate" with their investigation. As it turns out, Rose apparently did not get the letters requesting further information because they sent him to is home, and he was on the road playing ball.
I am shocked at the blinders the NCAA have put on in this case. Not only was their clearinghouse directly and, in actual fact solely, responsible for Rose's eligibility to play, they have taken the fact of Rose's test invalidation as dispositive regardless of the bizarre and unfair set of circumstances surrounding it.
This, folks, is what we used to call "malicious compliance." It is unethical, and wrong. And the NCAA is guilty of it.
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heard the story about the letter...
and it certainly makes sense.
my question is this then – surely the ncaa brought up the non cooperation at the june meeting. at that point, memphis and cal would have gotten rose to follow up.
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by memphis wildcat on Aug 20, 2009 8:53 PM EDT reply actions
NCAA purpose
I thought the purpose in all of this was to show other schools what can happen by making an example out of Memphis … If you’re not Duke here’s what happens.
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the institution that has suffered the most embarassment in the off-season is the NCAA. Far as I am concerned, I could care less if the Cats played another NCAA tournament game again. I dont want to see us having to fight them, but my sentiments concerning the entity can not be epressed without using some of the vernacular of the common and less than honorable people of this world. And in some cases using words in place of those words just doesnt have the same effect……
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Interesting perspective and opinion on the ETS trying to contact Rose in Chicago.
However, I strongly suspect that the addressed the ETS used was the contact address that Rose gave them. I wouldn’t think that the ETS would even know or hunt down the school address of any other college freshman. Why would they be expected to do this with Rose?
'..when they bring a knife, you bring a gun...that's the Chicago way..'
I don't know ...
… maybe because of the possibility that their finding would cause major repercussions for the young man and his school?
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by Glenn Logan on Aug 21, 2009 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions
I would suspect that the ETS is consistent whether it is just a plain-ole-student or an star athelete.
If you are expecting that the Rose case be handled as a special case, it could be argued it would lose its unbiased perspective. The ETS is not affiliated (I don’t think) with the NCAA. I would expect that Div I athletes in major sports makes up a very very small percentage of the test takers.
'..when they bring a knife, you bring a gun...that's the Chicago way..'
Maybe.
That is certainly a possibility, and perhaps they just try three times and after the third time they act. I really don’t know their process, and as far as I know, they don’t make that part of it public.
I don’t think it could be argued that if Rose, or any other student athlete in a similar situation were handled with an acknowledgement of their special circumstances it would prejudice the service. I think that is faux logic, myself, but your mileage may vary on that opinion.
The ETS may not be affiliated with the NCAA, but you would think that because of the amount of interaction necessary, they would be familiar with the challenges of student athletes. Perhaps, as you suggest, they are but just don’t care. If so, I think that’s a shame, but that’s just me.
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Whether ETS is or is not familiar with student athlete
challenges, the NCAA certainly is. Once the NCAA discovered that the test invalidation was based on ETS’ inability to reach a college student athlete at this then high school address, surely the NCAA would require more than this mere postal failure to disqualify Rose. This is really bizarre!
maybe so,
but you would think that between the time memphis got the letter from the ncaa in jan and the june conference call, someone would have found the letter and answered it or gotten the issue addressed if the ETS still had the issue outstanding – sort of reminds me of finding the morris fax – why did it not get addressed earlier….
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by memphis wildcat on Aug 21, 2009 1:51 AM EDT up reply actions
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