I actually wonder about the number of 3-year college graduates that we're suddenly seeing now that the graduate transfer rule has come about. It used to be that the only folks that could graduate in 3 years were the egg-heads that did nothing but study, didn't work, took full loads every semester, and took a full load both summer semesters.
I wonder how a varsity college athlete has enough time to take the number of hours every semester to graduate a year early. One has to wonder about the types of credit hours that are being earned. Granted, there is academic tutoring available to an athlete that isn't available to the general student population, but tutoring can only do so much. The student-athlete still has to do the work, complete the projects, do the internships, etc.. A student-athlete has an enormous time committment that they have to dedicate to their respective sport that the normal student does not have.

(04-28-2015 11:17 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:03 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  Yeah, I'm sure he's kicking himself for not landing a guy who put up 16 ppg for Cleveland State and a guy who chucked it up for an 11-19 Drexel squad.

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(04-28-2015 11:22 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:17 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:03 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  Yeah, I'm sure he's kicking himself for not landing a guy who put up 16 ppg for Cleveland State and a guy who chucked it up for an 11-19 Drexel squad.

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Hang on Mr Smug hasn't weighed in yet.

(04-28-2015 11:21 AM)CKMcDan Wrote:  I actually wonder about the number of 3-year college graduates that we're suddenly seeing now that the graduate transfer rule has come about. It used to be that the only folks that could graduate in 3 years were the egg-heads that did nothing but study, didn't work, took full loads every semester, and took a full load both summer semesters.
I wonder how a varsity college athlete has enough time to take the number of hours every semester to graduate a year early. One has to wonder about the types of credit hours that are being earned. Granted, there is academic tutoring available to an athlete that isn't available to the general student population, but tutoring can only do so much. The student-athlete still has to do the work, complete the projects, do the internships, etc.. A student-athlete has an enormous time committment that they have to dedicate to their respective sport that the normal student does not have.

It's all a big scam. Nobody is graduating in any tough majors in 3 years while also playing a major sport.

(04-28-2015 11:22 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:17 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:03 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  Yeah, I'm sure he's kicking himself for not landing a guy who put up 16 ppg for Cleveland State and a guy who chucked it up for an 11-19 Drexel squad.

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Don't get what? Please explain.

You mean, Cal is butthurt that Louisville has to resort to free agency to try to patch together a team for a year who lost 84% of their scoring and 62% of their rebounding?

Gotcha.

(04-28-2015 11:21 AM)CKMcDan Wrote:  I actually wonder about the number of 3-year college graduates that we're suddenly seeing now that the graduate transfer rule has come about. It used to be that the only folks that could graduate in 3 years were the egg-heads that did nothing but study, didn't work, took full loads every semester, and took a full load both summer semesters.
I wonder how a varsity college athlete has enough time to take the number of hours every semester to graduate a year early. One has to wonder about the types of credit hours that are being earned. Granted, there is academic tutoring available to an athlete that isn't available to the general student population, but tutoring can only do so much. The student-athlete still has to do the work, complete the projects, do the internships, etc.. A student-athlete has an enormous time committment that they have to dedicate to their respective sport that the normal student does not have.

Alot of these grad transfers it is their second transfer.

So they already sat out a year and graduated in 4. So if you make them sit out another year they will be ineligible.

(04-28-2015 11:22 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Once again, the usual suspects dont get it. How surprising.

Don't, they're really not worth the attention they crave.

(04-28-2015 11:35 AM)Tigers2B1 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:22 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Once again, the usual suspects dont get it. How surprising.

Don't, they're really not worth the attention they crave.

Really ? Saluki made a valid point. You people are something else

(04-28-2015 10:21 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 10:19 AM)michaelf Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 10:13 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  Cal is a better fisherman than Btiger

Wait, I thought they were the same person!!!

Cal is actually Tigerscane

THE WORLD IS OURS, KENTUCKY

(04-28-2015 10:58 AM)Tigers2B1 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 10:26 AM)cscottl1981 Wrote:  I think kids should be able to go straight to the NBA. How bout them apples Cal??

Cal knowingly brings in players who have no intention of getting a degree yet he turns around and pretends he wants grad transfers get theirs. What a hypocrite.

Guess players who have already gotten their degrees are the only ones Calipari really cares about.

(04-28-2015 11:48 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 10:58 AM)Tigers2B1 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 10:26 AM)cscottl1981 Wrote:  I think kids should be able to go straight to the NBA. How bout them apples Cal??

Cal knowingly brings in players who have no intention of getting a degree yet he turns around and pretends he wants grad transfers get theirs. What a hypocrite.

Guess players who have already gotten their degrees are the only ones Calipari really cares about.

DeCourcy >>>

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketb...Twi/SNMain

...If you want to know how disingenuous this whole campaign is, notice you’ll hear coaches citing how only 30 percent of athletes who take advantage of the grad transfer exception complete their master’s degrees. This does not account for those athletes who might complete those degrees at a later date – you know, like all those athletes who finish Bachelor’s Degrees after leaving school to play basketball professionally in the NBA or overseas. Coaches are attacking the grad transfer rule with the same statistical interpretation they use to defend their programs’ graduation rates...

Calipari says whatever can to keep the focus on him. He'll say something asinine then his media flunky Matt Jones picks it up, tweets or blogs it to the simpleton Kentucky fans and suddenly it's what they believe.

BTW here's what the same guy said about Calipari while he was at Memphis (Louisville fans remind him of these every time he's caught clutching Honest John's nut sack)


Here are some quotes from Matt Jones straight from his website that he made in April,2008.

“Kansas vs Memphis….it is time for Kansas to win another. Memphis is a great team, but I simply cant pull for Calipari and the way he runs a program. Rock Chalk Jayhawk….”

Matt Jones Says:
April 6th, 2008 at 12:01 am
All the while running one of the dirtiest programs in America….

Matt Jones Says:
April 6th, 2008 at 12:57 am
“I am not going to make a post on the subject. But travel in recruiting circles and you won’t find anyone who thinks that program is clean. You are free to have any feeling about Calipari u wish but I am not a fan of his tactics on building a program.”

“You just knew it was gonna happen deep down. Karma is a weird thing and it strikes at weird times and you just couldnt imagine that Memphis would really be allowed to win a national title. With a team full of players that had run-ins with the authorities, after the fight earlier this season at UAB, after their constant problems with free throw shooting and Coach Calipari’s mocking of it as an issue and the coach’s less than stellar reputation with the NCAA, you just HAD to think that it would catch up with them.”

“As for Memphis, you just knew this would happen. All year, they have laughed in the face of those who said you didnt need to hit free throws to win, and it was those free throws that lost the game. I make jokes about this Memphis team and I do have some problems with how Calipari runs his program.”

The state of Kentucky is filled with red hypocrites who use to hate Pitino and blue hypocrites who used to hate Cal.

I still love Cal.

(04-28-2015 12:02 PM)3601 Wrote:  The state of Kentucky is filled with red hypocrites who use to hate Pitino and blue hypocrites who used to hate Cal.

I still love Cal.

Never loved Cal...

But would rehire him in a heartbeat.

I would rather be a hated winner than a loveable loser.

I bet he doesn't have anything to say about the JUCO kid he's about to get this afternoon.

(04-28-2015 10:02 AM)TigerBill Wrote:  Translation: "I don't benefit from it, so screw the kids."

(04-28-2015 10:05 AM)Antonio5fan Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 10:02 AM)TigerBill Wrote:  Translation: "I don't benefit from it, so screw the kids."

You got it Bill. He doesn't have to use grad transfers so he wants to screw it up for the ones that do. Eliminates more competition for him.

I agree 1000%.... Cal never cease to amaze me... He is a SNAKE.

(04-28-2015 11:03 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  Yeah, I'm sure he's kicking himself for not landing a guy who put up 16 ppg for Cleveland State and a guy who chucked it up for an 11-19 Drexel squad.

He may not want them, but there's no doubt that a team with experienced transfers could prove to be a tough out for a bunch of freshmen in blue.

How many kids actually graduate knowing they can transfer and play right away as a graduate transfer? Seems like logical incentive to get out without sitting out.

Think they should limit how many one and done players you can sign in a four year period. These kids can get no use of their college education by just attending one year. Make them get at least an associate degree or the team loses a scholarship.

Well, if anyone bothered to actually read the article, the NCAA is putting grad transfers at the top of their list.

Rick Byrd was asked directly about it and said he is against immediate eligibility. Calipari was also asked about it and had the same opinion.

Calipari didn't volunteer an opinion on grad transfers out of thin air.