12/10 11:56 AM You need to be educated before you come over to the Indiana message board and proclaim us as "cheaters":
Here's a little history lesson about UK:
One of only two schools in NCAA history to get the NCAA death penalty (the other was SMU)
Point shaving scandal involving Alex Groza, Ralph Beard, Bill Spivey and Dale Barnstable in 1952
Emery air freight package breaking open to reveal cash payments to prospective player Chris Mills in '88
Joe B. Hall offering Kent Benson's dad a brand new tractor to come and play at UK
Rex Chapman's free UK blue Iroc Camaro (pictured in Sport Magazine)
Shawn Kemp's free Chevy Cavalier (pictured in the Louisville Courier Journal)
17 NCAA violations alone during the next to last year of Eddie Sutton's tenure (1988 or 1989)
2004 3 NCAA violations committed by booster Brain Poe by emailing recruits and other boosters, offering $$$ and other incentives to go to UK
2006 1 NCAA violation involving Patrick Patterson and boosters contacting him via email and his myspace page
Over 36 violations committed between 1998-2000, placed on three years probation for 2002-2006 seasons for the Claude Bassett fiasco where he handed out money to players---the NCAA said in a statement "This was one of the more serious cases heard by the committee in recent years in terms of the scope and breadth of the violations". I read Tony Franklin's book on the whole ordeal (he was UK's Offensive Coordinator), and he pretty much says that AD Larry Ivey, CM Newton and everyone below them in the UK AD department knew what was going on and turned their heads....
Academic fraud involving Eric Manuel in 1987-88
Adolph Rupp's racism (see extensive article, below, with accompanying footnotes)
The infamous Sports Illustrated cover "Kentucky's Shame"
And these are just the ones that I could remember off the top of my head: there are literally DOZENS MORE!!!! Here's the list of major infractions from the NCAA.org LSDBi database (these do not list all of the secondary violations: Institution: University of KentuckyDate: January 31, 2002
Violation Sumary: Recruiting inducements for prospective student-athletes and high-school coaches; impermissible tryout; unethical conduct; academic fraud; falsification of recruiting records; institutional control of recruiting funds; failure to control salary of employee; violation of supplemental pay provision; failure in fiscal control of outside agency; failure to monitor and a lack of institutional control. Also, numerous secondary violations.
Penalty Summary: Public reprimand and censure; three years of probation; postseason ban for 2002, reduction of initial grants in the sport of football for 2002-03 to 16, in 2003-04 to 18, and in 2004-05 to 22; reduction in the total number of football counters from 85 to 80; show-cause provision for the former recruiting coordinator for a period of eight years; signature control of all booster club accounts and annual reporting. [UPHELD ON APPEAL]
Involved Sports: Football
Involved Penalties: Television: 0 yrs Reduction in Financial Aid: Yes Postseason: 1 yrs Recruiting: Yes Probation: 3 yrs Show Cause Action: Yes Vacation of Record: No
References Legislative References
Div. Number Title I 10.1 UNETHICAL CONDUCT
I 11.3.1 Control of Employment and Salaries.
I 11.3.2.2 Supplemental Pay.
I 13.11.1 Prohibited Activities.
I 13.15.1 Prohibited Expenses.
I 13.2.1 General Regulation.
I 13.2.1.1 Specific Prohibitions.
I 13.2.3.4 Transportation to Summer Job.
I 13.6.2.1 One-Visit Limitation.
I 13.6.8 Entertainment on Official Visit for Spouse, Parent or Legal Guardian of Prospective Student-Athlete.
I 13.7.2.1 General Restrictions.
I 2.2.5 Fairness, Openness and Honesty.
I 2.5 THE PRINCIPLE OF SOUND ACADEMIC STANDARDS
I 2.8.1 Responsibility of Institution.
I 6.4.1 Independent Agencies or Organizations.
I 13.12.2 Employment at Camp or Clinic.
I 6.01 GENERAL PRINCIPLE
I 13.7 UNOFFICIAL (NONPAID) VISIT
I 13.6.7.5.2 Multiple Hosts.
I 13.8.1 Entertainment Restrictions.
I 13.1.3.1 Time Period for Telephone Calls -- General Rule.
Date: May 19, 1989
Violation Sumary: IMPERMISSIBLE RECRUITING: assistant coach sent twenty $50 bills to prospective student-athlete's father; athletics representative provided lodging, improper transportation, clothing and meals to prospective student-athletes. ACADEMIC ELIGIBILITY: academic fraud on precollege entrance exam; improper certification and participation of ineligible student-athlete. LACK OF INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL. UNETHICAL CONDUCT. EXTRA BENEFITS: improper lodging and credit arrangements. [UPHELD AFTER APPEAL BY COACH.]
Penalty Summary: Public reprimand; annual reports; maximum of three initial grants for 1989-90 and 1990-91; return of revenue for 1988 NCAA championship; disassociation of athletics representative. [UPHELD AFTER APPEAL BY COACH.]
Involved Sports: Men's Basketball
Involved Penalties: Television: 1 yrs Reduction in Financial Aid: Yes Postseason: 2 yrs Recruiting: No Probation: 3 yrs Show Cause Action: Yes Vacation of Record: No
References Legislative References
Div. Number Title I 10.1 UNETHICAL CONDUCT
I 13.1.2.1 General Rule.
I 13.2.1.1 Specific Prohibitions.
I 14.1.2 Validity of Academic Credentials.
I 16.11.2.2 Discounts and Credits.
I 2.1.1 Responsibility for Control.
I 31.2.2.3 Participation While Ineligible.
I 31.2.2.4 Institutional Penalty for Ineligible Participation.
I 13.14 USE OF RECRUITING FUNDS
I 13.5.1 General Restrictions.
Date: March 3, 1988
Violation Sumary: Failure to cooperate fully with investigation.
Penalty Summary: Public reprimand; annual compliance reports for 1987-88, 1988-89 and 1989-90.
Involved Sports: Men's Basketball
Involved Penalties: Television: 0 yrs Reduction in Financial Aid: No Postseason: 0 yrs Recruiting: No Probation: 0 yrs Show Cause Action: No Vacation of Record: No Date: December 1, 1976
Violation Sumary: Improper entertainment, financial aid, lodging and transportation; extra benefits; out-of-season practice; complimentary tickets; improper recruiting entertainment, inducements and transportation; excessive number of official visits; outside fund; questionable practice; institutional control; certification of compliance.
Penalty Summary: Maximum of 25 initial football grants for 1977-78; maximum of three initial men's basketball grants for 1977-78 and 1978-79. FOOTBALL: one-year postseason ban and television ban. Involved Sports: Football, Men's Basketball
Involved Penalties: Television: 1 yrs Reduction in Financial Aid: Yes Postseason: 1 yrs Recruiting: No Probation: 2 yrs Show Cause Action: No Vacation of Record: No Date: April 19, 1964
Penalty Summary: Probation. Involved Sports: Football
Involved Penalties: Television: 0 yrs Reduction in Financial Aid: No Postseason: 1 yrs Recruiting: No Probation: 1 yrs Show Cause Action: No Vacation of Record: No
Penalty Summary: Basketball schedule boycott for one year. Death penalty. Involved Sports: Men's Basketball
Involved Penalties: Television: 0 yrs Reduction in Financial Aid: No Postseason: 1 yrs Recruiting: No Probation: 1 yrs Show Cause Action: No Vacation of Record: No
COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
Byline: John Stamper and Linda Blackford
LEXINGTON, Ky. _ The new coach hired to lead the University of Kentucky's football program out of probation has an NCAA violation record of his own, something UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart didn't tell UK leaders about before making the hire.
Rich Brooks and his University of Oregon Ducks were slapped with stiff penalties more than 20 years ago for academic fraud and operating a "secret" travel fund.
That came as news to top UK officials, including university President Lee Todd and Steve Reed, chairman of the Board of Trustees. And Brooks said Monday the subject never came up during his hiring process.
On Monday afternoon, Barnhart said he knew about some of the rules violations before hiring Brooks, but did not tell Todd about any of them.
"I probably did not mention that to him," Barnhart said. "I probably should do that."
Todd, who has advocated changing UK's "sleazy" sports culture since his arrival in 2001, agreed.
"We should have known about this," he said Monday evening after reading the 1981 NCAA report for the first time
And an interesting article excerpt:
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Mike Miller MSNBC
The NCAA’s penalized the school three times for serious violations, including two instances where Kentucky was prohibited from playing games. (But the winning never stopped.)
College basketball’s point-shaving scandals from the early ‘50s affected Kentucky when three players, Ralph Beard, Alex Groza and Dale Barnstable, were arrested in the fall of 1951. They were barred for three years. In ’52, Bill Spivey, despite never being implicated in point shaving, also was barred. As a result, the NCAA suspended Kentucky’s 1952-53 season. (Amazingly, the ‘Cats went 25-0 in the ’53-’54 season, but declined an NCAA bid.)
In 1976, Kentucky was placed on two-year probation because of improper benefits to players. (Two years later, the ‘Cats won the NCAA title.)
In 1989, the NCAA gave Kentucky three years’ probation and barred it from postseason play for the 1990 and ’91 seasons for recruiting and academic violations. (The ‘Cats reached four Final Fours and won two NCAA titles between 1993 and 1998.)
This isn’t to hammer the ‘Cats. Nearly every program has been hit with some kind of NCAA probation. But it’s important in Kentucky’s history for when it occurred (during some of the ‘Cats’ best eras).....
So since everyone on this board wants to revise history to their liking, here are actual quotes from people who interviewed Rupp. You can lambast me and call me names all you want, but history is history. If your only way of refuting published facts is to name-call and whine, then I can't help you.
Rupp allowed Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford to stand in the Wildcats' locker room at halftime. Deford said he was stunned by Rupp's racist halftime exhortations.
"He said, 'You've got to beat those c**ns, ' " Deford said. "He turned to (center) Thad Jaracz. 'You go after that big c**n.' . . . He talked that way all the time. . . A chill went through me. I was standing in the back of the room, and I looked around at the players. They all kind of ducked their heads. They were embarrassed. This was clearly the type of thing that went over the line."
The second documented racial slur attributed to Rupp is found in a quote from Harry Lancaster, long-time assistant to Rupp, in his book Adolph Rupp As I Knew Him (Lexington Productions, 1979). Rupp said after a meeting with Dr. John Oswald, UK President at the time, "Harry, that son of a bitch is ordering me to get some ni**ers in here. What am I going to do ? He's the boss."
One story which does indeed demonstrate that Rupp was prejudiced against blacks is related by Ron Grinker in the book Loose Balls. This book, by Terry Pluto, attempts to harness the flavor of the ABA during its short-lived life. Grinker relates a story when he was escorting the aging college coach down to Memphis for a promotion of the local ABA franchise. Once, I was on a flight with Rupp and sat with him in the first-class section. He had about six Kentucky bourbons in less than an hour and was about halfway to the wind. I told him that I was an attorney who represented some basketball players. Now, I had never met the man, and the first significant thing he said to me was, "The trouble with the ABA is that there are too many ni**er boys in it now." I sat there just stunned. That just killed my image of Adolph Rupp the great coach. Maybe it was because he had too much to drink, but even so... - Loose Balls by Terry Pluto, Simon & Schuster, 1990, pg. 241.
Rupp reportedly told Western coach Don Haskins before the game that he (Rupp) would not allow five black kids to beat him, which Haskins promptly informed his team of during the pregame (Bergen Record, March 3, 1996). Another version mentions that Haskins heard that Rupp had said "no five blacks are going to beat Kentucky" after which Haskins informed his team. (Curry Kirkpatrick, Sports Illustrated, April 1, 1991.) This is supported by an article which made it a point to say that Rupp did not tell Haskins directly. "He [Haskins] had heard before the game -- not directly from Rupp, though -- that Rupp had said something along the lines of, 'There's no way I'm going to let five black players beat my Kentucky team.' - (by Jo-Ann Barnas, Detroit Free Press, "They Changed the Game: Texas Western," March 29, 1996.)
Alexander Wolff reported that Rupp called up a young sports reporter (Jimmy Breslin of the New York Journal-American) in New York in the early 60's and asked him to "kindly indicate 'colored' high school players with asterisks so Rupp would know where not to bother to send his recruiters." This was first mentioned in the book Raw Recruits, (Pocket Books, (1991) pg. 102-103)
A common charge against Adolph Rupp was that he didn't recruit black players "hard enough" during the 60's. Kentucky generally recruited in the state of Kentucky and in border states such as Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. During the mid-60's there were a number of high profile black players in the state including Clem Haskins, Mike Redd, Dwight Smith, Butch Beard, Wes Unseld, Jim McDaniels etc. so it was a perfect time to integrate UK. Rupp, however, seemingly didn't feel the pressure to do so from the community, the league or the media. (Billy Reed, Lexington Herald Leader, "30 Years Later, A Runt and a Miner Talk Hoops,"January 19, 1996.) Probably the only source of pressure to integrate the team at the time came from Dr. John W. Oswald, the president of the University who took this position in 1962. (Billy Reed, Lexington Herald Leader, "Basketball's New Face Part of Runt's Legacy," February 15, 1991.) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2010 Mayer Kentucky basketball victories tainted By Bill Mayer Kentucky with its tainted history has registered 2,011 victories to sit atop the college basketball heap. Now North Carolina (1,997) and Kansas (1,993) are neck and neck in an exciting race to the 2,000 level. As we all know, there are countless, indelible KU-UK-UNC connections. It’s regrettable that KU grad Adolph Rupp factored so heavily in a shady Kentucky march to glory. Kentucky may have hit 2,000 first but KU and UNC will do so more honorably. The Wildcats got there with considerable assistance from cheating and NCAA criminal indifference and oversight. In his 1931-72 reign at Kentucky, the abrasive Rupp became noted for his ability to disregard and flaunt recruiting legality and remuneration limits for his players. As Ken Johnson, the incomparable KU court historian in Des Moines, points out: “In the 1930s and ’40s, 386 of the Wildcat wins were generated when there was virtually no oversight in college basketball. Transgressions never were penalized. Since then, though, the Kentucky basketball program has continuously been documented as one of the most criminal of all NCAA Division I schools. “Rupp’s 1952-53 squad was nailed with what amounted to the NCAA’s first death penalty (cancelled season) because of payments to players. It all came to light during an investigation into a point-shaving scandal involving players during the ’49 season.” Kentucky won the NCAA title in ’48, ’49 and ’51 at the height of the horrendous fixing scandals; the NCAA never rescinded a trophy or a single victory. A judge called Rupp’s UK program the acme of commercialization and overemphasis. He said he found covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, illegal recruiting, reckless disregard for physical welfare, matriculation of unqualified students and flagrant abuse of the athletic scholarship concept. Rupp retired, but in 1976 the NCAA said the Wildcat scholarships would be limited for two seasons because of recruiting violations by coach Joe B. Hall’s staff. A handslap; UK won the ’78 NCAA title. In 1985, the Lexington, Ky., Herald Leader broke a story about UK paying players and recruits, documented by 31 former player admissions. Recruit Sam Bowie reportedly was handsomely rewarded. There were recruiting, ineligibility and payoff scandals during the Eddie Sutton tenure and Eddie had to resign. An assistant was banned from coaching in the NCAA for five years. Boy, did the NCAA get tough on that one! Historian Ken Johnson offers a kicker on the Kentucky outlawry so often ignored by the NCAA. He says UK periodically has tried to clean house but questions if that will continue. “ . . . with the history and culture of cheating, there is probable doubt a clean program will continue under the stewardship of John Calipari. It’s hard to overlook the corruption of the athletic department when they sign a basketball coach to the richest per year contract in college hoops within two months of the coach’s second school being stripped of a Final Four appearance by the NCAA.” Where was Calipari once an assistant? At KU, of course. Yet any barrel can have bad apples, including “alumni” who create programs with notably less honor and dignity than the source of their apprenticeships.
I admire how KU and UNC will reach the 2,000 level a whole lot more.
4/10 1:49 PM Dude I heard your transferring to Minnesota so you can be with Tubby 24/7. Work that magic and get him to divorce Donna for you! Im sure you two will have a great life together.
3/30 4:45 PM Hey douchebag , better pack a lot of warm clothes cuz its goin get cold up there in Minnesota watching tubby suck it up. Go root for him and his zero expectations up there, tubby blows
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