http://www.espn.com/blog/collegebas...836/ncaa-calls-john-caliparis-win-total-wrong
"You may or may not remember this, but on Feb. 26, 2011, the Kentucky Wildcats beat the Florida Gators in Rupp Arena. After the game, the school held a ceremony for its coach, John Calipari, who had just notched the 500th collegiate win of his career. It's a big milestone. Kentucky celebrated it accordingly. Then we all forgot about it and moved on and watched the NCAA tournament and the NBA playoffs.
Anyway, not everyone forgot about the UK numbers game. The NCAA Committee on Infractions certainly didn't. At the time, it questioned the school's counting of Calipari's vacated wins from seasons at Memphis and Massachusetts and told Kentucky that it needed to subtract 42 victories from the coach's total if it wanted to align itself with the NCAA's statistical record.
Now, a few months later, the Committee on Infractions is starting to get annoyed. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader's Jerry Tipton, the COI sent Kentucky President Lee T. Todd Jr. a "letter asking the school to publicly acknowledge it was wrong to recognize John Calipari's 500th coaching victory this past season." Committee Chairman Dennis Thomas wants more than that, though. He says the wording of the apology must be "approved by the Committee on Infractions prior to its release" and he wants a response by next Friday at the latest -- and he's not playing around:
More than once in his five-page letter, Thomas wrote of how UK's handling of Calipari's victory total was "troubling," "extremely troubling" and "very troubling" to the Committee on Infractions. If UK did not agree, Thomas said school officials would be asked to make an in-person appearance before the committee.
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"You may or may not remember this, but on Feb. 26, 2011, the Kentucky Wildcats beat the Florida Gators in Rupp Arena. After the game, the school held a ceremony for its coach, John Calipari, who had just notched the 500th collegiate win of his career. It's a big milestone. Kentucky celebrated it accordingly. Then we all forgot about it and moved on and watched the NCAA tournament and the NBA playoffs.
Anyway, not everyone forgot about the UK numbers game. The NCAA Committee on Infractions certainly didn't. At the time, it questioned the school's counting of Calipari's vacated wins from seasons at Memphis and Massachusetts and told Kentucky that it needed to subtract 42 victories from the coach's total if it wanted to align itself with the NCAA's statistical record.
Now, a few months later, the Committee on Infractions is starting to get annoyed. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader's Jerry Tipton, the COI sent Kentucky President Lee T. Todd Jr. a "letter asking the school to publicly acknowledge it was wrong to recognize John Calipari's 500th coaching victory this past season." Committee Chairman Dennis Thomas wants more than that, though. He says the wording of the apology must be "approved by the Committee on Infractions prior to its release" and he wants a response by next Friday at the latest -- and he's not playing around:
More than once in his five-page letter, Thomas wrote of how UK's handling of Calipari's victory total was "troubling," "extremely troubling" and "very troubling" to the Committee on Infractions. If UK did not agree, Thomas said school officials would be asked to make an in-person appearance before the committee.
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