Former University of Kentucky Athletic Director, C.M. Newton, jumped on the John Calipari/UK bandwagon with his support of the handling of the Eric Bledsoe and Enes Kanter situations.
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Here are some excerpts from Jerry Tipton’s Article:
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[QUOTE]”I don’t view it as being embarrassing,” Newton said of those pending cases, “and I’ll tell you why. Everybody else recruited those kids, too.”
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Newton, who sat on the FIBA board of directors for 16 years, noted that club teams are a foreign concept figuratively as well as literally. So The New York Times report of the Turkish team Fenerbahce Ulker paying Kanter and his family between $100,000 and $150,000 for living expenses over a three-year period might not necessarily fit into our concept of a salary of excessive expenses, Newton said.
As for Bledsoe, newton voiced a familiar lament: That the NCAA’s Eligibility Center ruled the player eligible, so it’s not fair to hold a program accountable after the season.[/COLOR][/LEFT]
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The precedence was established by the NCAA when they forced Memphis to vacate 38 wins when they ruled Derrick Rose ineligible. This was after Rose had been cleared to play by the NCAA Clearinghouse.
[QUOTE]”The NCAA was dead wrong,” Newton said, “to come back a year later and take whatever action they took.”[/QUOTE]But, the NCAA wants to know what it should do if new information surfaces in the interim?
[QUOTE]”Then they better be sure of their information in the first place,” Newton said. “Jeez-so, Pete.”[/QUOTE][URL=”http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/19/1440675/uk-notebook-cm-newton-defends.html”]
Full article at KentuckySports.com[/URL]
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