Comments on: Did Derrick Rose Cheat on His SAT?; Famous Situation Up in the Air; Rutgers Wins in Canary Islands

By: ChrisMullin

ChrisMullin — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:27:40 +0000

Sweet Jeebus, this is impressive even for an anonymous message board. I’d give 2-1 odds that pastaboy is AZ throwing ridiculous comments at the wall to promote traffic. 93 comments so far, it seems to be working.

By: Big Ben

Big Ben — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:20:45 +0000

LOL. Iraqi Information Minister is in the house.

By: pastaboy

pastaboy — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:30:05 +0000

extrapolate this …… Memphis in the last 4 years is 14 and 3 against the SEC …..more to come at KY.

By: pastaboy

pastaboy — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:10:22 +0000

Big Ben is a hater of successful people ….. Cal is the best coach in basketball now …..the fans know it ….the recruits know it ….the press knows it …. and next year when Ky. is dominating the SEC ….people like Big Ben will be nowhere to be seen or heard ……unless its to provide meaningless statistics skewed to favor whatever illogical assumtion he is promoting that day …… must suck to be you Ben ….no money …no hair ….hater of successful people …LOL

By: jhawk4

jhawk4 — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:35:02 +0000

Big Ben wins this argument in dominating fashion. nice.

By: Big Ben

Big Ben — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:10:58 +0000

123 of his wins in the last 4 years were against teams no better than what would comprise the bottom 3 of the SEC. And cheating to do it.

2006: 33-4, 3-3 vs top 40
2007: 33-4, 2-4 vs top 40
2008: 38-2, 9-2 vs top 40
2009: 33-4, 2-4 vs top 40

Overall: 137-14, 16-13 vs top 40, which will include 5 or 6 SEC teams in any given year. Extrapolate that 16-13 out and assume he now plays 10 of these games in conference per year, you win 6 and lose 4 of these games in an average year. My guess is Tennessee and Florida, with their current coaches in place, will beat that record most years in conference.

By: pastaboy

pastaboy — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:48:14 +0000

Calipari is 436 and 139 Ben ….139 and 13 the past 4 years ….. the highest paid coach in college basketball ….. he’s just coming into his prime ….. parse the record all you want …. it’ll make you look even more foolish ….Ky. will be ranked number 1 starting the season ….Cal may run the table …40 and 0 and win a NC ….LOL …wouldn’t want to be you Ben

By: Big Ben

Big Ben — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:34:17 +0000

Here’s one. I frequently travel to Chicago and work with quite a few Illinois graduates. They are about 50/50 as to whether Bruce Weber should retain his job at UI. Let’s see how he fares:

06: 9 Top 40 Ws
07: 3 top 40 Ws
08: 1 top 40 Ws
09: 6 top 40 Ws

So yeah, even a guy that half the fan base at Illinois wants to can has 19 top 40 victories in the last 4 years (Cal, remember, has 16 even if the NCAA doesn’t vacate 9 of them).

By: Big Ben

Big Ben — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:30:30 +0000

How about we look at another ‘accused’ cheater. This time Tim Floyd of USC.

06: 4 top 40 Ws
07: 5 top 40 Ws
08: 4 top 40 Ws
09: 7 top 40 Ws

So yep, Tim Floyd has (allegedly) cheated his way to more top 40 wins as well. Cal’s not even the best cheater in D1 hoops.

By: johnjohn

johnjohn — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:29:20 +0000

The Chicago Newspapers are over this story. They are not saying if Rose did the Grade Change. They are flat out saying that he was involved.

And now the newspapers have said that they know who actually who took the SATs. I find that a little hard to believe.

BUT… this is a summary of what has been reported in the Tribune and Sun papers.

This is bigger than Memphis and Rose.

Rose and 3 of his high school team mates worked together to cheat on SATs and to change their grades via a computer system so that the NCAA would get the wrong information so that 3 of the kids could play college basketball.

There are 2 colleges and the NCAA that are involved. It appears that neither the NCAA that clears the kids to play nor either school nor staff new about this.