Kentucky Basketball: Is Bledsoe About to File Suit?

the “sources” will not be divulged…but i’m also leaning to an anti-trust suit against NCAA, and impingement of Eric’s civil rights on both NCAA and NYT…hope Eric’s attorney is looking for blood in this one!!!

Just once I’d like to see someone hold ‘the kid’ responsible and question him and his actions…instead of the NYT, the NCAA, Pat Forde, the C-J, Jerry Tipton, society, health care reform, the designator-hitter rule, or man’s inhumanity against man.

The ‘everybody is against us defense’ and the ‘rules suck defense’ is not helpful and is sure as heck not protective of UK as an educational institute.

who is going to pay for his legal fight?

i’m pretty sure his family can’t afford it given the background that has framed the allegations to this point. i doubt the university is raring for such a battle with the NYT and i really doubt they’d let bledsoe speak publically about it if they were. if he goes it alone then wouldn’t anyone providing money or services for his case be liable to NCAA regulations concerning impermissible benefits?

bottom line… i’m having a hard time putting much stock in this. it sounds like one of his family was talking about getting a lawyer to sue and the news outlet phrased it in such a way to make it sound like a scoop.

Transcripts are private records and someone violated a law by leaking them.

Off Topic: Should I create a fanpost soliciting your opinions on DeMarcus Cousins or can we discuss it here?

… my perceptions of that question validated by no less than two practicing attorneys.

Thanks, Jack Blulto and wklawdog.

will happen, but it could.

of proof was made. No record, affadavit, no one going on record. Just a lot of speculation. Makes one proud not to be a reporter. Or from New York.

it seems the heart of the NYT article is the investigation, not the accusations about bledsoe’s past themselves.

given what other media outlets have said, the rumors around bledsoe’s recruitment have been around for some time. the main difference in the NYT article is they have a source (anonymous, of course) they believe solid enough to indicate there is an NCAA investigation. this is what their rather formidable credibility is hanging on, not if the rumors themselves prove to be true or not.

when my internet is down.

… so I can’t help. My interest in the Huskies right now is pretty low. :-)

This all stems from the recruitment of Nate Miles. As I understand it, the crux of the allegations are a bunch of impermissible phone calls to Miles and his associates from the UConn coaching staff (think Kelvin Sampson-lite).

Miles ended up signing with the Huskies, but never suited up for them after violating a restraining order taken out by his (ex?-) girlfriend and getting kicked out of school.

As for punishments, the two assistants most heavily involved were made to fall on their swords, Calhoun was cited for failure to properly supervise (though this did not prevent him from signing a lucrative extension and being hailed as a fine leader of men), and I don’t believe program sanctions have yet been meted out (but could be wrong). I think all assume that program sanctions will be fairly mild (perhaps probation plus a loss of a scholarship or so), but they won’t have to forfeit any games as Miles never played.

That’s the high level summary, anyway.

The NCAA won’t issue its report until December, it seems.