As long as he stays at UK his eligibility will remain in limbo. If he wants to play college, let him transfer to Duke, Kansas, UNC, UConn, Villanova, really anywhere and he will be granted eligibility within a weeks time.
Anyone think Big Z will never play?
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Nope. Shoving that billboard in the NCAA’s face probably didn’t help.
The Kentucky Effect.
The Kentucky Effect.
Exactly how I feel. It's getting too far into the season now anyway for him to contribute if he were cleared. When was the last time he played any competitive basketball other than practice? And, he has no idea what it would take to acclimate to the high level college game. Too late for him I think.
I'm sure the G- League won't have any issues paying him either unlike NIL.
This goes to show the NCAA has something against Ky these people has no boss so they can do anything they want.
I'm usually optimistic about these regardless of circumstances but I think this one is over. NCAA will rule him inelgible or drag it out until the end of the season.
This is dumb. If anything it puts more pressure on them publicly. That's how you force change on things like this, not by being quiet. We've tried the quiet part, now it's time to make some noise.
IF UK had a real coach and a real athletic director, they would both be on every media source available questioning why this is taking so long. Total injustice to the young man. Thousands of miles away from home to be a cheer leader
Ideally, Big Z gets cleared this week and he sticks around for one more season next year.
Add Knox is the Spring, and convince Peterson to reclass and come here. Sheppard returns and we make another run at a Final Four next season:
G - Sheppard - Fland - Perry
G - Peterson - Fland - Perry - Hart
G - Knox - Richmond - Burks
F - Thiero - Big Z - Burks
F - Quaintance - Onyenso - Cyril
In such a scenario, I could see Burks/Hart leaving the program and I wouldn't blame them.
Add Knox is the Spring, and convince Peterson to reclass and come here. Sheppard returns and we make another run at a Final Four next season:
G - Sheppard - Fland - Perry
G - Peterson - Fland - Perry - Hart
G - Knox - Richmond - Burks
F - Thiero - Big Z - Burks
F - Quaintance - Onyenso - Cyril
In such a scenario, I could see Burks/Hart leaving the program and I wouldn't blame them.
Underestimating Perry. He will play a Reed Shepherd role and be the first or second player off the bench.
That would be a great problem to have: finding minutes for Fland and Perry. That means we landed Peterson, which would be a very good thing.
Yep you're always wrong. You also said emphatically that Reeves would ride the bench.
Yes he is I have no doubt Theiro would play if he was able. He has been "day to day" for 3 weeks, clearly his back issue is problematic. Since he can't play he can't practice either. Once he is able to practice then there would be a period of time before he would be game ready. Given what we know and also what we don't know it seems to me his return is as questionable as Z's appearance on the court
NCAA is pure corruption!
Kentucky will always be the program they want to erase from history.
Kentucky will always be the program they want to erase from history.
NCAA - in a lose lose situation no matter what happens.
If they clear him, it took too long, it looks bad no matter how you slice it.
If they don't, and it's really about the stipend, then we've got some serious problems in the way the system works because we've got kids getting thousands of bucks for NIL.
The N.C.A.A. - clearly an anacronym for : Narcoleptic Collective Asswipe Association.
If they clear him, it took too long, it looks bad no matter how you slice it.
If they don't, and it's really about the stipend, then we've got some serious problems in the way the system works because we've got kids getting thousands of bucks for NIL.
The N.C.A.A. - clearly an anacronym for : Narcoleptic Collective Asswipe Association.
Cal said if he gets the OK he will play him because he has been a great teammate and done well with his academics.
They hate that a southern program is the best is the nation. If the NCAA had their way UNC, Dook, UConn, Kansas would be the top teams.
Quick update from Pilgrim a few minutes ago on Big Z. He said if the NCAA were to issue an opinion soon it would more likely be "no" as to his eligibility but a lawsuit could well then be filed that gets him ultimately eligible.
Dragging a kid along this long takes some pretty heartless scum type people to do a kid like that. Especially for a kid that is trying to adjust to a new type of life. They need to be exposed in a full investigation on the holdup. It will never happen though.
The billboard was cute, but suing the NCAA has more public leverage. Just ask all the other schools how it went (UNC, KU, probably a host of others we don't even know about). And those other schools actually did something wrong! We haven't!
They don't see the kid in this situation. They see KENTUCKY and John Calipari. There are obviously some people at the NCAA that have such a disdain for one or both of these entities that when they are asked to rule on some compliance/eligibility concern, it blinds them to any empathy for the kids involved. Sickening asshats.
Miami football TE gets a 9th year by NCAA but Z can’t get cleared or even dealt with!! What a joke!
This is what I have suspected for some time, The NCAA drags it out before saying no. If a law suit were to be filed it would likely not impact this season. If a suit were to be filed and if Z and UK won Z would have to stay another year for it to have any effect. Z staying here that long doesn't seem likely, what happens to the bigs already on hand for next season? do they still come? Ugo would likely move on where there is less competition for playing time
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yes. I'm afraid you are right which totally sucks for this kid and UK
UNC and Duke are kind of southern teams as well; this is about something different. It goes back to when an all-white UK team(pre-integration) faced an all-black team in the NCAA championship game. It didn't help that our coach was named Adolf; we somehow became a symbol of something we really were not, at least not any more than UNC or Duke who also didn't recruit black players at the time. When you combine that with the NCAA and ESPN being infested with UNC and Duke alumni, UK being the red-headed stepchild is what you get.
I'll just sit back and wait for the incoming fire from the redheads...
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