Bear Down Wildcats

Jay Bilas has an interesting and detailed proposal for the NCAA in the wake of the FBI scandal. Trigger warning: if you're really into the traditional NCAA/amateur dynamic, this is not the article for you. I tend to agree very much, but I recognize my viewpoint is decidedly non-traditional.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... basketball" target="_blank

We're also a national title favorite, which is cool.

Didn't want to create a new thread, but these suspensions have nothing to do with the FBI probe:

Mark Phelps for 5 days
Keanu Pinder for 1 game

I know the reason and can't share it publicly, but it's seriously so innocent and plum retarded. There's no bigger issue nor anything that ties with Book/Adidas here. Arizona just found it while doing their internal investigation. Once again it's seriously so stupid, innocent, and just overall silly, but hey we're under the microscope here and any little thing we find we have to be proactive, so there you go. Don't worry about this any more. I just feel bad for Phelps losing pay for 5 days, but c'est la vie.

LACK OF INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL!!!

HAS SEAN MILLER LOST CONTROL OF THE PROGRAM?!















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Wait Choo you mean you didn't want another ridiculous panic thread around here??

prh wrote:Wait Choo you mean you didn't want another ridiculous panic thread around here??

I mean feel free to go full on Hank if you want. I'll never tell you want to do.

prh wrote:Wait Choo you mean you didn't want another ridiculous panic thread around here??

Win & Vacate

Let's eat these W's

Have we ever suspended an asst coach for 5 games? Strange its not related. He better not be buying Barcello Taco Bell every day

Jefe wrote:Have we ever suspended an asst coach for 5 games? Strange its not related. He better not be buying Barcello Taco Bell every day

No, because usually meaningless shit like this is never discovered, because it's never looked into, because it's meaningless shit. Unusual circumstances lead to unusual meaningless discoveries.

Jefe wrote:Have we ever suspended an asst coach for 5 games? Strange its not related. He better not be buying Barcello Taco Bell every day

Choo said 5 days. Wonder if that is literal or not?

ChooChooCat wrote:

Jefe wrote:Have we ever suspended an asst coach for 5 games? Strange its not related. He better not be buying Barcello Taco Bell every day

No, because usually meaningless shit like this is never discovered, because it's never looked into, because it's meaningless shit. Unusual circumstances lead to unusual meaningless discoveries.

Ah. It was Arby's.

84Cat wrote:

Jefe wrote:Have we ever suspended an asst coach for 5 games? Strange its not related. He better not be buying Barcello Taco Bell every day

Choo said 5 days. Wonder if that is literal or not?

Days

NYCat wrote:LACK OF INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL!!!

HAS SEAN MILLER LOST CONTROL OF THE PROGRAM?!

Right on queue

I doubt any of you have been furloughed, but you'd be shocked how much pay and benefits you lose over five days.

ChooChooCat wrote:No, because usually meaningless shit like this is never discovered, because it's never looked into, because it's meaningless shit. Unusual circumstances lead to unusual meaningless discoveries.

He was taking bananas and cookies home from the players kitchen. Damnit Mark

Jefe wrote:

ChooChooCat wrote:No, because usually meaningless shit like this is never discovered, because it's never looked into, because it's meaningless shit. Unusual circumstances lead to unusual meaningless discoveries.

He was taking bananas and cookies home from the players kitchen. Damnit Mark

I REALLY HOPE THIS IS THE REASON!!

84Cat wrote:

Jefe wrote:Have we ever suspended an asst coach for 5 games? Strange its not related. He better not be buying Barcello Taco Bell every day

Choo said 5 days. Wonder if that is literal or not?

Yeah it's 5 days, which translates to 2 games.

Am I reading into it to assume that Pinders and Marks suspensions are related? Like did Phelps let Pinder use the office phone to call Australia or something?

NYCat wrote:

Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne announced just prior to tipoff that the Crimson Tide are holding out heralded freshman point guard Collin Sexton until he receives clearance to play from the NCAA.
“The NCAA informed us late this afternoon that Colin Sexton has not had his eligibility reinstated by the NCAA,” Byrne said in a statement. “We don’t have any further information at this time, but we will continue to cooperate with the NCAA and work toward a resolution that results in Colin’s timely reinstatement. While we are disappointed, the right decision was to err on the side of caution for tonight’s exhibition game.”

Alabama getting risky...

CatFanOneMil wrote:Am I reading into it to assume that Pinders and Marks suspensions are related? Like did Phelps let Pinder use the office phone to call Australia or something?

Sounds like Phelps actually bought Pinder a subscription to PornHub.

CatFanOneMil wrote:Am I reading into it to assume that Pinders and Marks suspensions are related? Like did Phelps let Pinder use the office phone to call Australia or something?

Yes they are both suspended for the same incident if you want to call it an incident.

This is why I told Hank of SB you do a good investigation first. What if we jumped the gun and only did 4 days? The NCAA would be all up on us then.

CatFanOneMil wrote:Am I reading into it to assume that Pinders and Marks suspensions are related? Like did Phelps let Pinder use the office phone to call Australia or something?

Alabama won't win and therefore has nothing to vacate.

This may have been mentioned before but wanted to throw it out there. Take it with a grain of salt, but my freshman year roommate works for TCU basketball and sent me this text:

"I was talking with our compliance office and they said it would be at least a year before anything happens with the NCAA. They don't have subpoena power (obviously), so they'll wait for the FBI to make everything public, then take action."

WIN & VACATE BABY

btfd16 wrote:This may have been mentioned before but wanted to throw it out there. Take it with a grain of salt, but my freshman year roommate works for TCU basketball and sent me this text:

"I was talking with our compliance office and they said it would be at least a year before anything happens with the NCAA. They don't have subpoena power (obviously), so they'll wait for the FBI to make everything public, then take action."

WIN & VACATE BABY

And that's the money shot.

btfd16 wrote:This may have been mentioned before but wanted to throw it out there. Take it with a grain of salt, but my freshman year roommate works for TCU basketball and sent me this text:

"I was talking with our compliance office and they said it would be at least a year before anything happens with the NCAA. They don't have subpoena power (obviously), so they'll wait for the FBI to make everything public, then take action."

WIN & VACATE BABY

I hope your friend is right. If he isn't, I'll personally find him and introduce him to my right fist.

Statfreak77 wrote:

btfd16 wrote:This may have been mentioned before but wanted to throw it out there. Take it with a grain of salt, but my freshman year roommate works for TCU basketball and sent me this text:

"I was talking with our compliance office and they said it would be at least a year before anything happens with the NCAA. They don't have subpoena power (obviously), so they'll wait for the FBI to make everything public, then take action."

WIN & VACATE BABY

I hope your friend is right. If he isn't, I'll personally find him and introduce him to my right fist.

I will be second in line.

They can take our championship, but they cannot bleach bit our collective memory

btfd16 wrote:This may have been mentioned before but wanted to throw it out there. Take it with a grain of salt, but my freshman year roommate works for TCU basketball and sent me this text:

"I was talking with our compliance office and they said it would be at least a year before anything happens with the NCAA. They don't have subpoena power (obviously), so they'll wait for the FBI to make everything public, then take action."

WIN & VACATE BABY

He is dead on. Most NCAA processes take at least a year, at the absolute minimum. The chances that the NCAA takes action prior to the end of this season don't exist.

The only thing would be self-imposed sanctions, but right now we don't have an eligibility issue on our current team unless there's some level of proof about the Dawkins allegation about this year's team.

Either way, play out this year, investigate, self-impose in the offseason. I think it's more likely we lose the 2018-19 postseason by a long shot as opposed to this year.

Does Randolph really have a "concussion"

Postseason ban? Hell no maybe probation and lose scholarships

Inside info: Miller agrees that Pinder has no value on this team beyond deep bench depth so he made up a violation, Phelps took the L to play along, and that’s how we get 30 min of Akot and Lee.

NYCat wrote:Does Randolph really have a "concussion"

Yes. Because Miller isn't a lying sack of sh*t.

Beachcat97 wrote:

NYCat wrote:Does Randolph really have a "concussion"

Yes. Because Miller isn't a lying sack of sh*t.

Also, why would he be held out of an exhibition game like he was previously? Those games don't count so eligibility wouldn't be an issue.

Think he's back Sunday

The conspiracy theory with Randolph is so completely stupid. Just square pegs in round holes, pound, POUND, POUND!!! SUCCESS!!!

Lemme guess...coach tossed Pinder his phone because Pinder ran out of data because he has Australian internet and they ration it.

No he gave coach 3 free jars of vegemite.

NYCat wrote:Does Randolph really have a "concussion"

Yes, every one needs to take off their damn tin foil hat in regards to Randolph. Arizona knows what they have in him and they don't want to even risk the kid for fricken NAU and whoever we just played. If he was a concern they wouldn't have played him in our first exhibition.

So we were the only team that had an assistant coach fired that didn't have a player suspended. Plus Bowen for Louisville and Sexton for 'Bama were suspended, tho Sexton is back. Not sure about Miami.

ChooChooCat wrote:

NYCat wrote:Does Randolph really have a "concussion"

Yes, every one needs to take off their damn tin foil hat in regards to Randolph. Arizona knows what they have in him and they don't want to even risk the kid for fricken NAU and whoever we just played. If he was a concern they wouldn't have played him in our first exhibition.

We played him for like 2 min vs UMBC. Were we trying to risk vacating UMBC because those two first half minutes were super crucial?

SunnyAZ wrote:So we were the only team that had an assistant coach fired that didn't have a player suspended. Plus Bowen for Louisville and Sexton for 'Bama were suspended, tho Sexton is back. Not sure about Miami.

Like the other programs, we lost a player cited in the report. In our case it was a future player (JQ). That's not counting Little, et al.

http://www.bruinzone.com/b12/messages/3738.shtml" target="_blank

Ah, this is cute. Russ is still lurking around these parts, and claims to know what the hell he is talking about.

Statfreak77 wrote:http://www.bruinzone.com/b12/messages/3738.shtml

Ah, this is cute. Russ is still lurking around these parts, and claims to know what the hell he is talking about.

Wow. That guy *has* to be following AZ hoops closer than he's ever followed UCLA, which is weird. He sounds legitimately paranoid in that thread, like AZ's ongoing dominance of UCLA has him in need of medication and rest.

Beachcat97 wrote:

Statfreak77 wrote:http://www.bruinzone.com/b12/messages/3738.shtml

Ah, this is cute. Russ is still lurking around these parts, and claims to know what the hell he is talking about.

Wow. That guy *has* to be following AZ hoops closer than he's ever followed UCLA, which is weird. He sounds legitimately paranoid in that thread, like AZ's ongoing dominance of UCLA has him in need of medication and rest.

Yeah, it is funny stuff. There are a few different posters that I make sure to read over at that place, and Russ is one of them. The other is MMiller. Go read some of his posts, and the guy is their version of JessieWildcat. Delusional and unbelievably unrealistic.

Statfreak77 wrote:

Beachcat97 wrote:

Statfreak77 wrote:http://www.bruinzone.com/b12/messages/3738.shtml

Ah, this is cute. Russ is still lurking around these parts, and claims to know what the hell he is talking about.

Wow. That guy *has* to be following AZ hoops closer than he's ever followed UCLA, which is weird. He sounds legitimately paranoid in that thread, like AZ's ongoing dominance of UCLA has him in need of medication and rest.

Yeah, it is funny stuff. There are a few different posters that I make sure to read over at that place, and Russ is one of them. The other is MMiller. Go read some of his posts, and the guy is their version of JessieWildcat. Delusional and unbelievably unrealistic.

I mean, my guess is that Russ is over 65 years of age. He's gotta be old enough to remember UCLA being a legit elite program and simply pines for the past. But instead of paying attention to, say, this year's Bruins, he's utterly consumed by all things AZ hoops. When there's bad news for AZ, it must feel like Christmas morning for him. It's a crappy way to be a fan. I'll admit it: I got too caught up in UCLA for a while, but nowhere near the degree as this guy. His fine-tooth comb readings of those FBI documents reminds me of a conspiracy theorist looking for evidence of JFK's assassination plot or UFOs in Roswell.

Anyway...let it go, Russ. Root for and follow your team. We'll do the same with ours.

CatFanOneMil wrote:Am I reading into it to assume that Pinders and Marks suspensions are related? Like did Phelps let Pinder use the office phone to call Australia or something?

Good for you, Catfan, you were pretty close.

SunnyAZ wrote:So we were the only team that had an assistant coach fired that didn't have a player suspended. Plus Bowen for Louisville and Sexton for 'Bama were suspended, tho Sexton is back. Not sure about Miami.

Miami isn't holding out a player either. Only Miami and AZ are playing all of their healthy players.