1. find and recruit students who did not graduate highschool and had highschool administrators change grades for them so they were eligible to play basketball in college then play dumb that you had no idea what was going on. (ala D. Arthur)
2. have our donors give over $5000 in improper benefits to players in order to help recruit and facilitate the arrival of them to campus. (ala D. Jackson)
3. Pay recruits families directly by hiring their completely-unqualified-to-coach-at-division-I-level dads as staff members. “Uh uh uh sorry mario but uh uh we can’t give you a check uh directly but uh we can pay your dad and uh he can give you a uh nice uh allowance.” (ala M. Chalmers)
4. understaff our compliance dept so we can cheat easier and not report it for a longer period of time. (see lack of instituional control)
5. and while we are at it, we can recruit some dead-beat dads too, heck theres a lot of good ones in the nba. (ala B. Rush)
really, if Kansas State doesn’t step up to the plate and start cheating with the rest of college basketball, we are just going to keep getting left behind. long gone are the days of the “death penalty” or post season bans. The NCAA has way too much money coming from CBS and ABC to ban the supposed high profile teams from competing in their end of season competitions. So cheat, cheat, cheat away KSU. Cheat all the way to victory!!! and one day we can be the 2nd ever team to win a national title while on probation!
Now Mr. Biery, you do not seem like the type that makes statements without knowing all the facts. That is why I am dissapointed that you have decided to start on this post.
1. D. Arthur has never been below a 3.0 GPA in college and is not a stupid jock who needs to cheat to get by. The fact that he may have been improperly eligible to play for the NCAA has no bearing on KU, but it is the fault of the high school administrators. KU would never have known of the wrong doing. Not that this means D. Arthur is innocent, just that KU cannot be blamed for cheating when the offense was not made by them.
2. If you would have done your research, you would have seen that D. Jackson was punished for the violations you speak of. He had to sit out for 30% (9 games) of the 2005-06 season. He could not even travel with the team. After this, the NCAA reinstated him on the team. Sorry, but he did the time, paid the price, and was allowed back on the team. Again, these were rules from the NCAA and not KU’s responsbility.
3. Your claims for Mario Chalmers are just ignorant, far-fetched, and ludicrous. While you may want to say that this is cheaing, no wrong doing was done. It’s strategy to get one of your best players to come to your school because Mario made it clear he wasn’t coming to any school without his family by his side. And, if you look at Ronnie Chalmer’s resume, he was more than qualified for the position he got. It’s not like he was coaching the team, he is the director of basketball operations. He is responsible for overseeing the academic progress of the Jayhawks, working closely with the off-season strength and conditioning program, assisting with on-campus recruiting, and helping with the day-to-day office operations. For a man with his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Wayland Baptist University and his master’s degree in human resource management and development from the University of La Verne in California, I’d say he’s more than qualified. In addition, his basketball coaching dates back to 1985, including assistant and head coaching stints with Air Force squads as well as high school and summer league teams. He came to KU from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, where he was the head basketball coach for five seasons. He registered a 109-28 record and two state championships while at Bartlett. His teams won state titles in 2002 and 2003 and were runner-up in 2004. This means that he spent more than 22 years in the U.S. Air Force and brought more than 20 years of basketball coaching experience to KU. If you think that is under-qualified, you need to have brain surgery.
4. Your allegations for 4 are way out of date (2006) and have since been taken care of mostly because of Lew Perkins who was hired as athletic director in 2003. He was so concerned about this problem that he ordered an internal review shortly after being hired (doesn’t sound like a cop-out or fear to me). The first rule of thumb to cheating is to not allow access to an internal review to get caught. Let’s be real, man. If these allegations were found true and punishable by the NCAA, KU would have faced 2 years probation meaning that they couldn’t win a national title until 2010. Too bad that KU got punished for that one…oops, that’s right they are the reigning National Champions. Which means, if you haven’t caught on, that they fixed the problems (again mainly due to Lew “The Master” Perkins) who worked with the NCAA to right the wrong. Doesn’t sound like a cheater to me.
5. And, lastly, we reach your lowest blow: Somehow claiming that KU is related to Brandon Rush not paying child support. If you forgot, basketball teams recruit based on performance not sexual relations. If a player has a child that is not grounds for banning them from the team. If we want to get that low, let’s start talking about all of the controversy of K-State athletics (if memory serves correctly, not only was Huggie Bear caught driving drunk, but there was also some question about his recruiting). And, paternity was never confirmed with Brandon Rush, which was the speculation. Again, if you did full research, you would have seen that since a paternity test was not filed to determine the biological father, no child support was being paid. The court dates were not to charge Brandon with inaccurately not paying child support, but to determine who was the father and who needed to pay. I guess when you are a big basketball star, the ladies want you. Haha. I am sure you will bring up all the information about Brandon’s brother, but again, read my statements made earlier. They apply.
And, if KSU does cheat to victory (and may I say that this will be their only chance of winning), they will officially be the 1st team to ever win a national title while on probation. KU’s self-imposed probation ran out in July of 2007. Sorry Charlie, again wrong with your facts.
By the way, I have a great new name for your blog: Ode to the Ignorant.
Comment by Anonymous — Saturday, May 31, 2008 @ 10:33 pm
you are living in a naive dreamworld if you think coaches don’t know just about everything that is going on with a player, especially when it comes to eligibility. a lot of schools backed off of arthur late in the process…now we know why. you are right though, kansas can’t be blamed for cheating in this situation…yet. and face it, if this happened to any other school you’d be thinking something fishy was up.
lol either way it happened with jackson and its questionable whether he ends up at kansas at all without a donar giving him all kinds of illegal benefits. this is what kansas fans don’t grasp. YOUR SCHOOL IS CHEATING. the punishments are weak cause you still get the players and get to play in the postseason with them.
again lol on defending ronnie chalmers. name other bcs schools who hire family members to get basketball players and i’ll back off my claims that kansas is sleazy and dirty. lets face it, ronnie doesnt get this job without having a son kansas is recruiting. stop being naive. high school basketball/military rec league experience is ludicris defense of the hire (least he wasn’t just a truck driver though). NO ONE IN AMERICA IS HIRING RONNIE WITHOUT HIS SON COMING…NO OTHER PROMINANT SCHOOLS HAVE TO STOOP TO THIS. i’m guessing ronnie gets quietly shuffled out the door here pretty soon.
who cares if its out of date, it still happened. and its certainly within the date of time bill self recruited most of the players directly responsible for the tainted championship. kansas cheated and the ncaa didn’t have the balls to pull kansas from the postseason like they deserved…the ncaa has too much money tied up in all of this to ban anyone.
oh and the ncaa found numerous things that kansas’ internal review didn’t. the internal review tried to pin most of the stuff on women’s basketball and tried to ignore men’s. pathetic.
lack of institutional control and academic fraud and being on probation means you cheated.
Bob Huggins never got in trouble while at KSU nor has he ever been in trouble with the NCAA anywhere.
THE NCAA EXTENDED KANSAS’ WEAK SELF PROBATION TILL OCT 2009…READ UP FOOL
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/101206/bre_ku.shtml
KANSAS: HOME TO THE MOST CHEATINGEST BASKETBALL PROGRAM IN NCAA HISTORY
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2623252
Comment by Andy — Sunday, June 1, 2008 @ 3:37 am
oh, the kitties and their little brother syndrome.
lets get to these precious little “arguments.”
1. This is clearly a High School issue, not one involving KU. Some attention-seeking teacher comes out with “evidence” of an infraction HE committed 6 years ago, during Arthur’s freshman year. if he really cared about coming clean, he’d have done it a long time ago. Considering we didn’t contact him until his Junior year, I’m calling B.S. on this.
2. Darnell recieved improper gifts from a family friend, Don Davis. He served his suspension and was reinstated, so he’s paid his debt. That alone makes this argument invalid.
3. Are you serious? Dalonte Hill? Frank Martin? Why do you think Hill was kept on staff? His coaching ability? If he wasn’t B-Sleazy’s nanny, he wouldn’t be at KSU, and you know it. If you don’t believe that, you’re more delusional than I thought. Oh, and I can’t possibly forget Frank “banned from coaching HS Basketball in the state of Florida” Martin. Just because “cheating” didn’t work for you, don’t act like you guys are the Mother Theresa of the NCAA.
4. this argument is old. It precludes anything that has to do with the National Championship, since it happened under Roy’s regime. Coach Self was not recruiting for Kansas then, so that makes you full of shite. oh, i found a bunch of things that happened in your women’s basketball program and during your football team’s decade of decentness.
http://www.ncaa.org/releases/infractions/1999/1999021801in.htm
http://www.ncaa.org/releases/infractions/1999/1999021802in.htm
http://www.ncaa.org/releases/infractions/1996/1997070302in.htm
http://www.ncaa.org/releases/infractions/1996/1997070301in.htm
see…i can use google too.
5. what exactly does this have to do with anything? a character attack?
Huggins? Dalonte? DUI?
how about this gem? ( http://media.www.kstatecollegian.com/media/storage/paper1022/news/2006/09/12/News/Hoskins.Arrested.On.Disorderly.Conduct.Charges-2267533.shtml )
Luis Colon?
( http://www.cjonline.com/stories/072807/cat_187497752.shtml )
how about some football?
( http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/3944211.html )
Rashaad Norwood?
( http://blog.al.com/breaking/2007/08/kansas_state_player_suspended.html )
i could go on, but i think you get the point.
i guess the bottom line is that everyone “cheats” in college sports. if you don’t believe that, you need to grow up and stop being so naive.
don’t have a hissy fit because you can’t win anything of value, even though you cheat just as much as every other school in America.
oh, congratulations on your soil judging championship.
you will always be the little brother.
Comment by common sense — Tuesday, June 3, 2008 @ 8:15 pm
typical kansas fan……didn’t even go to school there. bandwagon. why do you follow/support this school if you didn’t graduate from there? just need to follow the latest winner? lame.
lol i’m glad this eats at you enough to seek me out and respond directly. its ok, like i said in my post, K-State needs to cheat more and play dirty to keep up with everyone else, or check that, their in-state rival.
since you took this time though, i’ll respond to a few things. Dalonte Hill played Division I basketball and was already an asst. coach at a Division I program. Yes he was hired to get Beasley. But he’s also a great recruiter in the AAU circles as can be seen by future commits we have. Either way he isn’t a FAMILY MEMBER and thus can’t freely give of his paycheck to a player. There’s a huge difference here and only sleazy kansas does this. Also, the Florida High School Activities Association never accused Martin of any wrongdoing (scroll to near the bottom).
wow ok violations in track and field and women’s basketball. at least we fired the head coach involved in women’s b-ball. The report clearly states in the track and field issue that no one involved with the university was at fault…it was just a donor issue ala D. Jackson–no one gave answers on tests or anything. The difference here is we didn’t get the dreaded ACADEMIC FRAUD and LACK OF INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL.
Clearly we don’t cheat enough, so stop trying to say we cheat just as much as anyone else. we can’t hold a candle to kansas and their 5 basketball probations. We will always be the little brother when it comes to sleazyness. you are correct.
you can now go back to being interested in men for random play (another typical kansas fan attribute).
F.F. Woodycocks
Networks: Washburn Alum ‘06
Kansas City, MO
Sex: Male
Interested In: Women
Men
Relationship Status: In an Open Relationship
Looking For: Friendship
Dating
A Relationship
Random play
Whatever I can get
Comment by Andy — Wednesday, June 4, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
“you can now go back to being interested in men for random play (another typical kansas fan attribute)”
I’ve read some of your other entries so I know where you stand politically. I must say that comments like the one above make me embarrassed to call myself a conservative. Please educate yourself.
Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday, June 4, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
Final say by me:
if kansas fans were really so confident in what their school accomplished this stuff shouldn’t bother you. but it does. and that makes it all worth it. because people will always know this about kansas:
Only school to have ever not been able to defend a national title 1988
Only school to have been on probation and won a title 2008
Only school to have to stoop to hiring family members to recruit the key staple in their tainted champ runs Manning/Chalmers
congrats to U of Kans–the school that accomplishes the most with their blatant disregard for rules/honor/standards.
Comment by Andy — Thursday, June 5, 2008 @ 2:54 pm
“I’ve read some of your other entries so I know where you stand politically. I must say that comments like the one above make me embarrassed to call myself a conservative. Please educate yourself.”
i’m embarrassed for your inability to accept jokes and not take everything seriously. although in this instance, the abnormal amount of homosexual activity amongst jayhawk men is quite disturbing and probably should be taken seriously.
Comment by Andy — Tuesday, June 10, 2008 @ 1:21 am
Joking about someone’s sexual orientation is never funny. And there are just as many homosexuals in Manhattan as there are in Lawrence. However, they have to stay in the closet so they don’t get drug behind some ignorant bastard’s pickup truck. You’re so homophobic that I’m beginning to wonder if you’re not a closet homosexual yourself.
Comment by Anonymous — Friday, June 20, 2008 @ 3:00 pm
you are right, i see the connection. i call kansas fans gay so i must be afraid of homosexuals and might even be homosexual myself. brilliant.
Comment by Andy — Friday, June 20, 2008 @ 4:16 pm