We Don't Need No Stinking GPA!!!!!

I totally agree.

Rec’d

it IS a simple matter really and you nailed it. Cheers!

perhaps he thought that he wasn’t hurting anyone, but he hurt his teammates that stayed behind in school and damaged the reputations of the ones that left with him. Inexcusable.

Just read your report on “Wall Street Journal” good job!;-)

… it’s a two way street. Before you think I disagree with ABC, I don’t. Orton is just plain wrong. But the whole arguement needs to be taken one step further by the university to show their interest in the “scholar” part of the equation.

I’ll play devil’s advocate (aka An Ortonian Athelete) for a minute:
“I was given a scholarship to Kentucky to come play basketball (or football or whatever) and all the university is required to do is give me one year of room and board. If I don’t produce I can easily find myself out of college and little prospect for the future. If the university really wanted me to come play a sports AND get passing grades for a full time student then the scholarship offer should be just that – include four years of school should athletic endeavors not work out”.

This by no means puts me in the camp of accepting Ortonians that leave destruction in wake of their immature decisions. The universities should extend four years of education as part of any one year athletic scholarship. Bruce Pearl spoke of the condition of an athelete not being able to perform due to injury or illness but even that is too limited for emphasizing to the athlete the education element they all need, whether they are one-and-done, two-and-skidoo
or whatever.

1, Beginning Basketball
2, Score Keeping
3, Taping ankles
BUT what ever you do DON’T take Foul Shooting. It would be our luck the women’s team would be taking the same course and the teacher would grade on the curve and you’d flunk.
Stick to the important stuff, you know all that stuff that is going to help you be successful later in life!
Go just enough to remember where your seat is. Get the big geeky kid to fill in for you often and hell, UK will just be a bus stop on the way to the big money!
Hope none of ours were taking correspondence courses through those two schools the NCAA has decided not to accept.

Can they just take correspondence courses and get the staff, managers and a few others to stop by every week or so and get their signatures on the papers they have to send in?
We certainly don’t want them to waste alot of time on gaining the actual college experience.

You sure stirred up Paris!!!

Sorry, but I think its a joke when a kid can do what Daniel did.
Its an embarassment to the program, and all associated with it.
If they want to use the system like this, maybe that should bar freshmen from playing. Solve a lot of problems and let them show their stuff against other freshmen.
Or let the NBA have a development league.
Why not?

What would Cal do? Damn that would be the 64 dollar question!

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

some of these same things on two other articles and I had people all over my ass. I was accused of treating poor Daniel badly. He deserved better than to be criticized. Of course you said it better and in more detail than I did.

It don’t mean nothin’. Not a thing. It don’t mean nothin’. Not a thing.

Hooray!!! GPA It don’t mean nothin’. Not a thing.

In regards to

needs to have his backside removed from between his shoulders

I think that should read “needs to have his backside put between his shoulders”, as in a meeting between his rump and someone else’s collection of 26 bones and 33 joints, collectively known as a “foot”…

Most everybody knows that I’m a pretty big Ort fan, but how to say, my enthusiasm towards him has waned in the past couple of months?? Going pro, even though I think he’s a year early, is OK, but ditchin’ the last semester is a foul… Technical-like!

They hired Kenny Payne. Now hire some more tutors for the dummies.

Compared to some of the comments I’ve seen on this “respectable site” that’s nothing.
Starting with the article itself Daniel Orton has just been crucified. I think there’s more to this affair than people know.

Sounds just like the Michael Bradley affair when supposedly Donna Smith told Tubby to get rid of Michael Bradley.

Hard telling who really coaches these teams anymore.

Mabye. By what authority do you set yourself up to “condemn” anyone? You’re well educated. You know what the definition of “condemn” is.

I believe that, that is going way over the line. I don’t consider myself to have a mandate to condemn anyone for anything. I don’t think that you do either.

As I said in two other articles, Orton acted like a spoiled brat who took his marbles and went home. For writing those comments I was severely upbraided and made to feel like
I had just slit Orton’s throat.

No consistency here CAT. Only certain people can say what they please. Others who do
are threatened with expulsion from the site. And that’s OK. I’m going to expell myself.

Look at the recommends this has already received. We strongly agree. When coop posted the news in FanShots, look at the number of comments there. We were disappointed by it. We may be called crazy UK fans sometimes, but we do it with a lot of pride in our University.
Oh and congrats on the move to the front page.

Do you see what I mean? btcoop1 just implied that I’m a “dick” for having an opinion.

OK. In calling the other players “dummies” I went too far and must retract that comment.

University life isn’t easy. I ’ll cocede that fact.

I never thought that the blue tinted posters on these sites would turn on one another like this.
But its good to see not everyone is failing to think for themselves.
PLease continue.