SB Nation User Blog: kdoc

More BS From the NCAA- Love / Wooden Investigated

kdoc — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:25:24 -0000

Dwyre in the local fishwrap opines correctly about the situation:

This is the NCAA at it's most ridiculous:

Allow the inmates to run amok over in south central, living in luxurious suites for peanuts, getting athletes whose high school diplomas are from a variety of online "schools", signing six figure contracts while their families live rent free...

BUT, immediately investigate the budding relationship between a 97 year old legend and the freshman superstar. Fortunately, we are UCLA, and even this was above board:

"Matter of fact, it was easy. Wooden, as a paid consultant to the school, is permitted to meet with recruits." The sad part is, with all this confusion, everyone is treading lightly: "Stan Love is under the impression, hopefully incorrect, that his son can't talk to Wooden right now." The closing really summarizes how incredibly stupid this whole investigation is: "When Wooden attends games at Pauley Pavilion -- sadly fewer and fewer these days -- Lorenzo Mata-Real, Love's backup center, likes to go over to his seat and greet him.

Expect an NCAA investigation soon."

Someone, please stop the madness! There are times when I am just forced to believe that there has to be some deep dark conspiracy within the NCAA that allows for such an obvious disparity in their actions.

By the way, do you think North Carolina, with Roy "No one recruits harder than me but I'll cry at a drop of a dime" Williams has Michael Jordan on their payroll as a paid consultant?

Howland Finally Coach of the Year

kdoc — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:43:57 -0000

At least someone actually was paying attention...
Congratulations, Coach!

Go Bruins!

http://www.jimphelanaward.com/howland.html

Who cares about all the bias...

kdoc — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:44:55 -0000

The best way to shut them up is to just win. I love how everyone is calling this game ugly- and I'll be the first to admit, it wasn't a beautiful, free flowing game, but look at the results. We shut down a high flying, athletic Memphis team with stifling defense and intensity, and what do we get? Comments like, "ugliest game ever", "ucla played less poor", "this is no espn classic"...

In fact, only Dookie V gave us any real credit for our defense, depite his own unchoosing of us from his original bracket.

LSU-TX regulation score 52-52. Um, how is that so much better than 50-45 with us missing 20 fts? Yet, that was a great, exciting game with the way all the MSM people are talking about it.

At this point, I'm just enjoying the ride, regardless of how we are portrayed. Hopefully in the end, they'll have no choice but to talk about us.

Go Bruins!!

Morrison is still dirty...

kdoc — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:03:42 -0000

I can appreciate that he was better in the postgame press conference unlike his fellow whining player / coach, but to me, he is still a dirty player. They actually showed many replays of his foul on Afflalo where AA scored and then Morrison flopped to the ground on the HDTV feed, but most of the nation watching regualar TV missed it because they were doing a look in on the WVA-TX game (I didn't realize that until I saw my tape of the regular feed).

From the baseline angle, you can actually see him twisting Afflalo's entire wrist backwards at a crazy angle, and Afflalo just tries to jerk his arm away before it gets damaged- upon which Morrison completely throws himself to the ground Vlade Divac style to try to draw a cheap foul or T, which would have been AA's 5th. Fortunately, the refs actually caught this one and could be seen warning him about his antics- I thought it should have been a T on him for completely unsportsmanlike behavior, first for the twisting of the arm, and then for his diving, but of course, that would never happen. Reminds me of stuff Rodman used to do- past the "just being competitive" line. It just shows how classy AA is to still come over to hime after the game- I know I wouldn't have if someone had done something like that to me.

Morrison might be a good enough player, but he is so deliberate with his clear out move that I doubt they will let him get away with it in the NBA- but who knows?

Onwards to Saturday!