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UK Responds to Liggins Situation

I am sure you have read the DeAndre Liggins’ recruitment situation with Kentucky and his AAU coach.

Everyone found out from ESPN why Liggins had to set out 9 games at the beginning of the 2009-10 season, and it was thought that the NCAA required him to sit out that many.

That doesn’t look to be exactly true.
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Alan Cutler of LEX18 contacted Dwayne Peevy, Kentucky’s Associate Athletic Director and who is in charge of the Media Department, says something a little different.

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“It was the University of Kentucky’s choice to withhold DeAndre Liggins from competition at the start of the 2009-10 season while eligibility questions were being resolved,” DeWayne Peevy, UK’s Senior Associate AD/Communications sent via email.

“Once they were resolved the number of games we voluntarily withheld him from was considered sufficient. The original withholding was not mandated by the NCAA.”
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[URL=”http://www.lex18.com/news/uk-does-not-agree-with-espn-over-liggins-problem/”]Complete Article[/URL]

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