Kentucky fans endorsing Pete Thamel’s reporting? That is tremendous.
/hopes no one at UF is dumb enough to violate federal privacy laws

I swear, it is though no one can function in this life without stirring a pot…..I wish I had a job causing problems instead of one solving them…..

Thamel’s rumored source of the Bledsoe transcript leaks was also UF.

He compared it with his situation at Notre Dame when he was caught stealing credit cards. He said that people with the athletic department came to him and told him he would transfer and they would put out that he was feeling homesick. Nothing would ever be said about the theft.

He said it stayed like that until the following season when Notre Dame basketball was on the skids. Stories started coming out that there was trouble in the program and started questioning why guys like him would leave the program.

He said that’s when the story broke. He said he doesn’t believe the school did it, he thinks some of the other students on the periphery that didn’t want to hear their coach getting slammed were the ones to break the story.

He then compared the Cam Newton case. He quietly leaves school and everyone assumes its because he wants to play and the Tebow express is obviously in his way. Two years later he resurfaces at an SEC rival and is touted as the best player in the country. Simultaneously, Urban Meyer starts getting heat for a dysfunctional offense run by John Brantley instead of having Cam Newton.

Gottlieb went on to essentially say that he believed it was someone obliquely involved in the program trying to defend the team and not the school itself.

It has the ring of truth to me.

As we saw with Eric Bledsoe last summer though, kids make mistakes and try to correct them. If he was caught up in cheating and has since corrected his ways, then shame on those trying to commit character assassination.

However, the request for money could be an entirely different bird. I’m a little slower to judge than I had been now that Kentucky was caught in the crossfires this summer with the Davis recruitment. I’ll wait for more to come out. The MSU recruiting guys talking about it recently are certainly more damning than the “I heard from a guy, who knows a guy…” that initially hit early in the week.

But it seems to no longer be working for me…

their entire coaching staffs in both football and basketball could move to Knoxville. They’d fit right in at a school that would hire Fulmer and Pearl. In all fairness, though, I want some real facts before I remove the word alleged.

Nowadays the rumor mill seems to never stop. There’s always somebody out there with an axe to grind. This is bringing college athletics down to the pathetic level of professional sports. It’s sad. We’re losing the joy of competition just for the sake of competition.

newton or kanter…logic says kanter but who knows with the ncaa…also the ny times need to change their name to tmz or the national enquire …jeez

imo