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Don't want to look like a troll, but somehow this doesn't look quite right. Consider the NCAA reduces our ships. So we exceed the ship quota and put one of the existing ship guys on financial aid or whatever. Looks like we're poking NCAA in the eye. I know Louisville did something like this but the Ville wasn't on probation. Hope it all works out well for our Huskies but it looks like a Red Flag to me.
 
It can look like a giant red mast for all I care, if its not against the rules, it's not against the rules. Doesn't matter if you're UConn anyone else.
 
champs99and04 said:
This kind of rubs me the wrong way...I know it's something that is done all the time, but kind of unfair to the kid, considering he could have easily gotten a scholarship elsewhere and had his spot secured.
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It looks like this is not the prevailing opinion, but I don't like this either. It gives me that SEC football, win at all costs kind of feeling. To ask a kid that you recruited to give up a schollie just sucks. I don't care what kind of financial aid Bradley is going to get.
 
UCHuskies08 said:
Big thank you to Michael Bradley & family. They took one for the team and that should be commended.
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I think Jim Calhoun should also be commended. Way to think of creative ways to get around those pesky scholarship reductions for cheating AND ignoring the importance of academics...
 
F Paint said:
I think Jim Calhoun should also be commended. Way to think of creative ways to get around those pesky scholarship reductions for cheating AND ignoring the importance of academics...
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You are aware of who the UK coach is correct?
 
huskiesnyc said:
A recruited player is not allowed to play for the team he likes if he's been recruited and they don't have available scholarships? That is a freaking joke! The NCAA is so backwards and I hate forcing a kid like Bradley to have to pay his own way when Drummond was most likely willing to.
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I think it's pretty logical, actually.
 
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UCDaveD said:
You are aware of who the UK coach is correct?
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UK (in the last 20 years), nor Cal have ever had scholarship reductions for any reason and UK had one of the highest APR scores in the NCAA this year... but thanks for your (ignorant) interest in Kentucky basketball...
 
F Paint said:
UK (in the last 20 years), nor Cal have ever had scholarship reductions for any reason and UK had one of the highest APR scores in the NCAA this year... but thanks for your (ignorant) interest in Kentucky basketball...
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Maybe UConn can play Kentucky next year and slap them around the court again.
 
F Paint said:
I think Jim Calhoun should also be commended. Way to think of creative ways to get around those pesky scholarship reductions for cheating AND ignoring the importance of academics...
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How about:

"Way to think of creative ways to add a rare talent at needed position AND benefit a 6-year student athlete by providing a 5 year scholarship including the most expensive years of his program."
 
F Paint said:
You think you all will even be allotted any scholarships after next season?
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No. The school is going to close and everyone is going to go home.
 
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Jimmy Cerrano said:
It looks like this is not the prevailing opinion, but I don't like this either. It gives me that SEC football, win at all costs kind of feeling. To ask a kid that you recruited to give up a schollie just sucks. I don't care what kind of financial aid Bradley is going to get.
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You all already win at all costs (see scholarship reductions due to cheating and low APR scores that got you into this mess).
 
F Paint said:
UK (in the last 20 years), nor Cal have ever had scholarship reductions for any reason and UK had one of the highest APR scores in the NCAA this year... but thanks for your (ignorant) interest in Kentucky basketball...
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I'm also aware that UK's basketball tradition is rich with NCAA sanctions. In fact, they've been sanctioned more than any other Division-1 Men's basketball program. Also your current head coach has vacated 2 Final 4's with 2 different schools, miraculously jumping ship just before capsizing. Amazing coincidence! But regardless, it was certainly a pleasure kicking the hell out of the pussycats in Maui and then ending your season in Houston.
 
Kansas has the most NCAA sanctions. but then again, facts never got in the way with UConnvict fans...
 
upstater said:
I think he's pretty serious about his Pharmaceutical studies. With his redshirt year, and one year paid for through financial aid, he could potentially go to UConn for 6 years to earn his professional degree. Is Pharm two years after a Bachelors? If so, he would only have been given 5 years as a basketball player anyway. And when you think about it, professional school costs a lot more than a year of undergrad, even for an out-of-stater. Which means that paying for a year now saves Bradley money if he sticks around for grad school.
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Yes, Pharm D is a 6 year program...so if you are Pre Pharmacy (or accepted into it i think soph year), its 6 years...some kids take more if they don't take all the pharmacy pre reqs, but I heard he's a great student.
 
I'm guessing this was all cleared with the NCAA before any decision was made

just like they did before playing the Beltway Ballers and before Ray Ray accepted a demo car from a dealership for the summer
 
F Paint said:
Kansas has the most NCAA sanctions. but then again, facts never got in the way with UConnvict fans...
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UConn sent a lot of text messages. Kentucky had cash in envelopes.

Hmm.
 
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F Paint said:
Kansas has the most NCAA sanctions. but then again, facts never got in the way with UConnvict fans...
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I stand corrected. 5 major sanctions vs 4 major sanctions. Point still stands.
 
F Paint said:
facts never got in the way with UConnvict fans...
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You asked UConn to 'do something outside a decade span'.

How many years are in the span from 1990-today? Daggone crazy Yankee math!
 
zls44 said:
UConn sent a lot of text messages. Kentucky had cash in envelopes.

Hmm.
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The Eric Manuel academic forgery landed us probation. We chose not to challenge the cash thing because the NCAA said if we cooperated they'd go easy on us (what I'm guessing happened with the Nate Miles deal). I hope you aren't dense enough to believe the cash was delivered via courier by someone associated with UK.
 
As if we didn't smack you around on the court last year? That wasn't enough for you?

Pretty ballsy, if not stupid, for a UK fan to come here and talk about the virtues of upholding NCAA rules and regulations. Squid is such an upstanding coach. Never left a program in disgrace. Good call.
 
F Paint said:
UK (in the last 20 years), nor Cal have ever had scholarship reductions for any reason and UK had one of the highest APR scores in the NCAA this year... but thanks for your (ignorant) interest in Kentucky basketball...
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UK is like a used toy a kid had for years...once its been owned for a while...he/she kind of lose interest....get back in the toy chest and be quiet.
 
Here we have a fan of a school that got whipped by UConn last year twice, trying to take out the pain by accusing UConn of poor academics, while his school is full of one-and-dones.

Worse, his slimy coach tried to make hay out of re-enrolling a player, Eric Bledsoe, whose transcripts were forged just so he could could play basketball at all! Nothing so shady has gone down in UConn academics.
 
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F Paint said:
Kansas has the most NCAA sanctions. but then again, facts never got in the way with UConnvict fans...
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Oh good. You want to talk facts. There is nothing, repeat, NOTHING illegal about what UConn is doing here. How's that for a fact? I may not like it personally, but it well within the rules.

You have a glorified D-League team with all your one and dones.
 
upstater said:
Here we have a fan of a school that got whipped by UConn last year twice, trying to take out the pain by accusing UConn of poor academics, while his school is full of one-and-dones.

Worse, his slimy coach tried to make hay out of re-enrolling a player, Eric Bledsoe, whose transcripts were forged just so he could could play basketball at all! Nothing so shady has gone down in UConn academics.
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KU also wanted AD badly. This flamer is probably WWW who is ticked one got away. Second guess is it is Calipari. Third guess is he is the Kentucky booster spreading money around. Fourth guess is he is some hick whose sister/wife ran away from home and he's a miserable son of a B. Fifth guess is he's the W&M coach who lost the hand out from the first or third guess.
 
OHusky said:
Don't want to look like a troll, but somehow this doesn't look quite right. Consider the NCAA reduces our ships. So we exceed the ship quota and put one of the existing ship guys on financial aid or whatever. Looks like we're poking NCAA in the eye. I know Louisville did something like this but the Ville wasn't on probation. Hope it all works out well for our Huskies but it looks like a Red Flag to me.
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This is a loophole in the NCAA by laws which may or may not be changed because of recent UConn, Louisville and other school actions. There is nothing illegal about it. It might be distasteful to people, but no more distasteful than any of the hundreds of loopholes that people take advantage in society such as going across the border to buy gas to avoid the higher in state gas tax.
 
fleudslipcon said:
KU also wanted AD badly. This flamer is probably WWW who is ticked one got away. Second guess is it is Calipari. Third guess is he is the Kentucky booster spreading money around. Fourth guess is he is some hick whose sister/wife ran away from home and he's a miserable son of a B. Fifth guess is he's the W&M coach who lost the hand out from the first or third guess.
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The answer is probably more simple than this. F Paint is likely a 12 year old.
 
Mods, come on, there's like 6 of you. Please make this guy take a permanent hike.
 
fleudslipcon said:
This is a loophole in the NCAA by laws which may or may not be changed because of recent UConn, Louisville and other school actions. There is nothing illegal about it. It might be distasteful to people, but no more distasteful than any of the hundreds of loopholes that people take advantage in society such as going across the border to buy gas to avoid the higher in state gas tax.
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I don't see why this is distasteful to people. It's a net benefit to the team, the school, Andre Drummond, and most importantly, to Michael Bradley himself. He's very likely saving a bunch of money going down this route.

What bothers some people?
 
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