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WaPo: Sally Jenkins says Mulkey dropped the ball...

Discussion in 'UConn Women's Basketball' started by pap49cba, Apr 14, 2012.



  1. JS Moderator

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    It was reported to be self-reported by the school, according to reports on NCAA reporting. How it got reported to the staff is unreported. But it reportedly concerned desserts. So maybe a jealous chocoholic reported it.





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    I have it on good authority, though, that the whole thing was engineered to put the NCAA off its guard. "Geez," they said, "if Tennessee is such a bunch of damned fools as to report this piece of nothing, we don't have to worry about THEM." And, with the NCAA looking the other way, it made possible the gifts of cars, do-nothing jobs and houses for players and their parents that we all JUST KNOW followed.
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  2. easttexastrash Baylor Aficionado

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    Mulkey has repented and deserves forgiveness.
  3. Biff Mega Monster Moderator

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    Really? You are saying it was a case of un-just desserts? I had recalled that it was a malapropos mound of mash potatoes.

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    Your theory does seem to hold more weight...so to speak.
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  4. AboutWeston Artiste Extraordinaire

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    ETT--

    Lesson #1 in writing to this board: know when to cool it.
    Lesson #2 in writing to this board is to pay attention when ICE speaks - ICE is a truly kind, understanding person.
    Lesson#3: this was a matter of ethics, and like it or not Kim Mulkey failed the test.
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  5. Icebear Andlig Ledare

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    It serves the specific purpose of making the fans displeasure with with the NCAA and Mulkey evident. I is about applying pressure. Occupy Waco. If nothing else it makes it clear to all involved that the fans of WCBB do not want the cloud of this type of behavior considered acceptable. Sometimes shaming is the only power a group has to force reform.

    If you prefer something more subtle let everyone stand and turn their backs as she takes the court or is announced. The power is in consistent and unified messaging.
  6. Icebear Andlig Ledare

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    No she hasn't she has minimized her responsibility and attempted to scapegoat it. She and the program suggested a joke of a penalty which has/d no real possibility of impact. When she does accept and admits the extent of the appropriate behavior then she does deserve full and complete forgiveness. People offered minimal penalties and cheap grace to Rene P., too, and she never did reform her behavior and we all know the mess that resulted in.

    One does wonder how a Baptist school has run a foul of the NCAA 6 times. Repentance is a term meaning to take a new path.
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  7. Benny New Member

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    Mulkey did`nt repent. She blew it off by blaming the compliance department and claimed that sitting with the multiple recruits` parents in the parents section was just being a good mother. Does she really think her daughter would care if she sat in the coaches section. Come on, who`s she kidding?
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  8. arty155 Popular Poster

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    Immoderate pun! :eek:
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  9. DaddyChoc Popular Poster

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    I agree with Lesson #1 & #3 :p
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  10. Icebear Andlig Ledare

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    That's because I always use tough love with you. :rolleyes:
    #2 is embarrassing for me, too, but I couldn't think of how too address it. I appreciate AW's thought but was hoping it was irony.
  11. AboutWeston Artiste Extraordinaire

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    ICE--

    Re: #2: Irony, no. Perhaps because I really do agree with you all the time! And 'cause we've never met!!!:)
  12. Icebear Andlig Ledare

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    Thanks, AW, but just another flawed human being. Sometimes I do better and sometimes I do worse.
  13. ThisJustIn Queen of Queens

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    Just to be clear -- I wasn't talking about the nature of the punishment. I was talking about the (to my eyes/ears) seemed implication but Jenkins that the violations were known about and not acted upon...

    The punishment doesn't suit.
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  14. Blueballer Popular Poster

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    Calipari does that every time he gets caught too....
    ....Or resigns and pops up somewhere else :p
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  15. Outside Shot Popular Poster

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    One reason why these punishments often don't seem severe enough is because the people that sit on the committees are also employed at various athletic departments. They know it could very well be their school sitting in judgement one day.

  16. RadyLady Music Lover

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    in jest and with apologies to W.S. Gilbert:

    A more humane decision never
    Did in the league exist,
    To nobody second,
    they’re certainly reckoned
    Such true philanthropists.
    It is the very humane endeavour
    To make, to some extent,
    Each evil liver
    A running river
    Of harmless merriment


    The object all sublime
    Which shall achieve in time —
    To let the punishment fit the crime —
    The punishment fit the crime;
    And make each prisoner pent
    Unwillingly represent
    A source of innocent merriment!
    Of innocent merriment!


    All prosy dull society sinners,
    Who chatter and bleat and bore,
    Are sent to hear sermons
    From mystical Germans
    Who preach from ten till four. (Sorry Ice)

    The coach basketball who then texts one and all
    And sits chatting where she should not be
    But Oh my the restriction!
    Says she, no conviction just
    mea culpas to all she can see

    The object all sublime
    Has not achieved this time —
    To let the punishment fit the crime —
    The punishment fit the crime;
    The message seemingly sent
    Such poorly represent
    the rules with which this league was meant!
    indeed the rules were bent!
  17. Bestiarius Popular Poster

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    Are you now a Moderator here?
  18. semper Paleographer

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    What do you think would have been an appropriate punishment?
  19. NativeSon New Member

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    While many would like to see a harsher punishment, it's difficult to come up with one that won't be effectively punishing the current Baylor student athletes. As far as I understand, the athletes themselves did nothing wrong, if anything they are actually victims of these infractions (though given the program's success I doubt they feel cheated). This takes punishments such as win/championship forfeitures and banishment from future tournaments off the table IMO.

    Suspension of guilty staff members (including Coach Mulkey) for the entire 2012-2013 regular season, in addition to the self-imposed penalties, I would support. If Baylor were to appeal, I'd cut that by 5 games or so if Coach Mulkey were to step up and publicly admit fault.
    But with the women's game slowly catching up to the men in terms of profitability/marketability, the governing body is going to protect its commodities rising stars. Fact.
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  20. DaddyChoc Popular Poster

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    its never the kids fault... just like the "current" UConn Men's players being punished for stuff that happened 3-5yrs ago
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