The article I read said it was 2008. 2018 is a whole different matter.
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its both⊠penny donated to memphis in 2008âŠthats the sole reason heâs considered a booster, nothing since
he helped wiseman move to memphis as a sophmore in high school before he was even a possibility for the memphis job
Come on, who pays for a family to move from Nashville to Memphis to play for an AAU team. Penny had the plan to become Memphisâ coach from the get go. He wanted the Wiseman kid and others also from the get go.
This was planned by Hardeway and Memphis from the get go.
It smells.
Seems to me that the NCAA is an organization and therefore can make rules to be in organization.
If they cannot, then there should be no NCAA organizationâŠthen Katy bar the door !!
Iâm old and I will just exit the college games sooner !!
Penny is not good for college basketball, he is a Larry Brown type (of course, he hasnât proven that he can coachâŠbut that he can cheat).
Oh, by the by, this occurred before Penny was the Memphis coach and he was therefore a booster of the Memphis programâŠand that is what the ruling was all about !!
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You already know how this is going to go. Its going to be a back and forth all season in the courts between the NCAA and Memphis and at seasons end he goes pro and Memphis has to vacate all the wins.
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I call it Calaparied !!
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They will have to vacate all the wins he played in.
If they (probably) have an NCAA Tourney team without him, it keeps them out.
Edit:
The NCAA statement in the post below= NCAA is going to shine that Memphis behind for not bowing down to them.
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So thatâs how Penny gets the number one recruiting class. I hope the NCAA isnât digging deeper into Memphis recruiting.
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This is such a cut and dry case of cheating itâs not even worth debating. I mean, the attorney is going to claim that the kid didnât know, but come on. Like Lebron didnât know where the Hummer showed up from when he was 16 years old. Yes itâs unfortunate that a Memphis gets dinged when UNC goes free, but this is just the malfeasance that has been uncovered. The only question now is whether Memphis stands behind its coach or it fires him and lets Mike Miller take over. Letâs also be real, how many other Penny AAU kids were getting bonuses? How many of them followed to Memphis?
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Yeah right !
That would be ALL of them !!
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So what? Reggie Bush won the Heisman and a bunch of games. Louisville won a hoops title (and is back in the top 5 currently Iâll add.) No one cares about the NCAA abandoning wins after the fact and schools have come back from worse. And they donât have to give back all the revenue from the tickets and t-shirts they sell during their run.
This just encourages the Bamas of the world to find rich alums, tell them not to give a cent to the school, and put it all to the recruits so they were never âboosters.â
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Understand your points on the macro level but on the micro level the players, staff, and fans want to play in the tourney.
Without the wins he plays in that probably wonât happen.
Simple as that.
They have a huge one vs Oregon on tuesday where they need him.
Most of their games in the near term are wins with or without him.
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That I agree with Iâd have a judge do this around March 1. Memphis must be confident theyâll win.
Wiseman did not play tonight(found out later he did)âŠI have to think Memphis is in deep poop over thisâŠbut then again I will never understand how North Carolina and even Kentucky remains untouched by the NCAAâŠwhat Memphis did for the Wiseman family is just the tip of the elite recruiting icebergâŠ
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Uhh, he did play
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Ok, I looked on Score and he did not show up in the boxscoreâŠI canât understand why Memphis would play him in a meaningless game knowing that the hatchet is fixing to fallâŠ
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This is ridiculous. Let the young man play.
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Serious questionâŠon what basis is it ridiculous?
Happened in 2017 when PH was already in negotiations to take over Memphis. Might as well disband any notion of oversight (as bad as it is) by the NCAA an just admit D-1 revenue sports are semi pro and open the floodgates.
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