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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Fair point - he wasn't found responsible. Yet I'm sufficiently skeptical of the whole enterprise to think he knew nothing about these activities, unless he consciously avoided the knowledge. There's a lot of looking the other way in college sports.
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No argument here. But if this is the standard, there isn't a coach at a big time program that can withstand scrutiny.
I just looked up Camby's story. He took $1,000 through his friends from a Hartford lawyer who wanted to be his agent and then another few thousand from some other scumbag who wanted to represent him. I simply cannot accuse Calipari for looking the other way on something like that. That simply does not meet the "should have known" standard coaches should be held to. Hell, I don't even blame Camby. Every single person around these guys is trying to get paid off of them, from their friends to their high school coaches to their parents. And they all do, some of them just for exerting influence on the player's decisions. If you're a kid and your friends throw you a few bucks from some sucker who's willing to give it to them in the hope that they convince him to sign, that's really only wrong in the NCAA's eyes.
TM
