Love the sources this idiot references
"The Pasadena Post conducted a telephone interview with John Doe,
whereupon he shared the following information, which John Doe says was
not derived from the emails and texts in his possession, but gathered
firsthand from his previous personal dealings and encounters with
Wesley"
Here's the whole story in case the article gets taken down:
5 Mar
Former William Wesley Acquaintance: Calipari, Kentucky, Cheated in 2014 NCAA Tournament
By Michael Miller
University of Kentucky head coach John Calipari
allegedly cheated his way through the 2014 NCAA tournament - and is
prepared to do it again this year, according to an individual who claims
to be a former associate of power broker and super agent William Wesley.
Calipari and Wesley have been closely connected for many years. In 2012, The Oregonian's John Canzano wrote about Wesley's presence in New Orleans for the 2012 NCAA Championship game. After Kentucky claimed the title over Kansas, Canzano wrote, "Wildcats star Anthony Davis
climbed into the stands and shared a celebratory hug with Wesley, who
was sitting in the Kentucky family section inside the Superdome."
The
aforementioned whistleblower-acquaintance of Wesley, who presently
wishes to remain anonymous for personal reasons, says he has in his
possession a number of emails and texts to that were exchanged between
Kentucky assistant Kenny Payne, Calipari, Wesley, and numerous
college basketball officials over the past several college basketball
seasons. John Doe did not want to elaborate on how he came up the emails
and texts, or whether he was privy to the exchanged messages.
The
Pasadena Post conducted a telephone interview with John Doe, whereupon
he shared the following information, which John Doe says was not derived
from the emails and texts in his possession, but gathered firsthand
from his previous personal dealings and encounters with Wesley:
"[Retired NBA player] Damon Stoudamire
was on record a few years back stating [that] Wes is running the NBA.
There're journalists in-the-know who think he's running all of
basketball. That's an understatement. He's the most powerful man in sports."
Numerous college basketball officials are handsomely paid by Wesley to
officiate Kentucky games. Calipari and Payne inform Wesley which games
they requests referees for, and Wesley is the linchpin. "All of
Kentucky's NCAA tournament games last year, Wes had at least one of his
guys there. Everyone of 'em. The Wichita State game was
laughable. Cal was calling out plays to the officials from the sideline.
It was blatant cheating down the stretch of that game, and Cal's giving
the go-ahead. His fist in the air. Holding up five fingers. Who was he
calling plays to? His players weren't even looking at him. He was
signaling [referee] Mike Reed. Go back and watch it yourself."
John Doe says Calipari has two objectives as head basketball coach: to
win games in the NCAA tournament with Kentucky, and to prevent
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino from winning basketball games
at Louisville. "Cal's obsessed with Pitino. Always has been. The two had
a falling out somewhere in the late 1990s or early 2000s, after they
both had rough stints in the NBA and returned to college, and it's been
ugly ever since. Pitino's indifferent. He doesn't care about Cal one way
or the other. But Cal, his stated mission when he took over at Kentucky
was to run Pitino out of the state. That's a fact. [WDRB.com and former
Louisville Courier-Journal columnist] Rick Bozich even said as
much in one of his columns a few years back. So what Cal and Wes do,
they'll have their refs at non-Kentucky games that Louisville is playing
for three primary reasons: to hopefully cause a Louisville loss, to
scout Louisville's team for when Cal has to play them, to know which
players to call fouls on, and to keep Wes' crew working. The more games
they work for Wes, the more they get paid. It happened tonight in the Notre Dame (versus
Louisville) game. I haven't watched many Louisville games this season,
but I caught tonight's game and two of Wes' guys were there, Joe DeRosa.
Mike called phantom fouls on Louisville's centers, took them out of the
game. Louisville's players got mugged, Joe didn't call anything. It was
blatant, and it usually is, if you know who's working for Wes and Cal.
And Kenny, he doesn't like Pitino, either. He's an old-school, [former
Louisville coach] Denny Crum guy, and he's never been OK with how Pitino took over the helm after his guy.
"No (laughs), I'm not a Louisville fan. I'm not a fan of any team in particular. I'm drawn to players. Patrick Ewing
was one of the best collegiate players I ever saw. Anthony Davis was a
once-in-a-lifetime-talent, he was a joy to watch. There's been a lot of
players over the years I've enjoyed watching. But with Louisville, I'm
just telling you what I know. And Cal, he doesn't give a (expletive)
about Louisville - it's Pitino. It's personal. And it's smart. He knows,
as the coach of Kentucky, that Kentucky fans want three things: NCAA
titles, Final Fours, and to beat Louisville. He's no dummy. He'd want to
beat Louisville if Pitino wasn't there; but the fact that he is there,
it takes it to another level. He'll stop at nothing to make sure
Louisville loses at every corner. And the fact of the matter is, pretty
much every year Cal's been at Kentucky - other than Cal's first year at
Kentucky - Cal's biggest threat has been Louisville. You take Cal's
clandestine activities out of the equation since he's been in Lexington,
and Louisville easily has two NCAA titles. [Louisville] would have won
it all last season, if Cal and Wes hadn't intervened. [Louisville] swept
[2014 NCAA title winners] UConn, beat 'em three times [in the
2013-14 basketball season], easily. [Calipari's] very good at
[preventing Louisville from winning]. [Calipari] had no business
defeating Louisville last season. Both games were cheating on level I
didn't think he'd get to. But he got there."
"I told a friend
about I think Wes set up the Midwest region last year - and my friend,
he laughed, because he doesn't follow the sport that closely and doesn't
know Wes like I do, but I think Wes helped set up the Midwest region
last year. I really do. I can't prove it, but I've heard things. He was
involved. Look, the other stuff is fact. The refs, the play-calling from
the sideline. [Calipari] has been pulling that stuff for years. Is Wes
capable of getting to the NCAA selection committee? I wouldn't put it
past him. He was a regular with the [Chicago] Bulls in the 1990s, probably the greatest dynasty in modern basketball, at any level. [Retired NBA and former Bulls player] Scottie Pippen
says Wes knows everyone. When you're joined at hip with Nike,
anything's possible. We're talking about a multibillion-dollar business,
college basketball. Money talks. Power talks. Wes has both.
"My B.S. detector went off when I saw the seedings revealed last year.
According to its RPI, Kentucky should've been no worse than a four
[seed]. They were given an eight [seed]. How did that happen? Every
other team was seeded in accordance to their RPIs. So Kentucky's paired
up with Kansas State. Remember that game? One of the refs gave a
technical to K-State before the game even started. First time in NCAA
tournament history, a team was on the scoreboard before tipoff.
"It was a favorable draw. Cal got K-State and Wichita in St. Louis, two home games. He got Louisville
in [Indianapolis] - another home game. How many eight seeds get to stay
that close to home in the Big Dance? I think Cal knew the two biggest
threats in last year's tournaments were Louisville and Wichita [State].
He wanted to eliminate both. His regular season had been a disaster, and
what better saving grace than to be able to take out the first
undefeated team since 1976 Indiana? And then your in-state rival?
Funny how that worked out. And he had two of his refs working both of
those games - that part I can verify. I know those guys. They do well
for themselves. The regional setup, that's my own speculation it's just
never added up."
Wesley is a "charming guy, a nice guy. I don't
want to elaborate on the details of our [association]. I don't feel I
need to. He's elusive, enigmatic - so am I; I'm a private individual. We
don't speak anymore, I'll say that much. It happens in life all the
time. People go their separate ways."
John Doe felt compelled
to share his story because he "didn't want to see another program get
shammed again this year" like in 2014. "Last year, it was hard to watch.
I've never had a problem with Wes, Kenny or Cal having the best team
that money can buy. That stuff goes on almost everywhere. It's gone on
for decades. If it's not the coach, it's a booster the coach may or may
not know about. Sam Gilbert built the UCLA dynasty. That's
no secret. College basketball has always been a functioning underground
economy. You don't have to see 'Blue Chips' to know that much. It's
gotten worse in the past decade or so. Again, we're talking about a
multibillion-dollar industry. Name me one [multibillion-dollar industry]
that's above corruption. Cal just takes it to another level at
Kentucky, because he has Wes. Kentucky never got close to putting
together a team of eight or nine McDonald's All-Americans in the past.
Never. [Former Kentucky coach] Pitino signed less than a dozen -
five, actually, if I recall - McDonald's All-Americans in eight seasons
at Kentucky, and that was a golden age of Kentucky basketball. Heck,
[Pitino] only had two [McDonald's All-Americans] that played significant
minutes on his 1996 title team (Tony Delk, Antoine Walker). One of them
didn't even play, or barely played and was a freshman (Wayne Turner).
The other was a freshman, too (Ron Mercer) and was a reserve. And
Memphis never got that kind of talent until Wes showed up. Look at Cal's
record at Memphis from 2000 to 2005. It was average. Double-digit
losses. His 2005 Memphis team was pretty bad. I think that's when Cal
said [screw] it: 'They couldn't touch me at UMass,
if they want to try to get me here, I'll get the hell out of dodge.'
Wes gets involved after the 2005 season and it's 30 wins, 30 wins, Derrick Rose, more wins.
"But hiring officials and calling out plays from the sidelines,
that's where I gotta draw the line. That's Lance
Armstrong-level-cheating. Kentucky was an average team last year. They
weren't a very good team. They didn't deserve to win a game in that
tournament, and they advanced to the title game because Cal was calling
out plays and the refs were doing their thing."
John Doe says
Wesley's predetermined-officials primarily alter games for Calipari by
using several tactics. "Well, last year, for example, and even in
regular season games this year, Cal will get the ball in the hands of
his best free throw shooters, set the play up with the official, and
that player will get fouled. It happened at [Texas] A&M this
year. Wes' guys won that one for Cal. It happened like clockwork in the
tournament last year. Whenever Kentucky needed a bucket in the Wichita
game, [Kentucky point guard] Andrew Harrison had the ball in his
hands and Wichita got rung up for a phantom foul, and it sent one of his
best free throw shooters to the line for a couple easy ones. There's a
reason Cal loves those twins - they're the perfect players for his ruse.
Give them the ball, send them to the line, get easy points."
Another tactic Wesley's officials will use, according to John Doe, is
to call nonexistent or "phantom fouls" on Kentucky's opponents. "The
phantom foul is Cal's best friend. He pretty much fouled every big
Louisville had on its team in the Sweet 16 last year. He got [former
Louisville player] Luke Hancock on the bench for most of the first half in that one. [Former Kentucky player] James Young couldn't
check [Hancock]. He was a threat. Cal knew that. What do you do with a
threat? You eliminate it. Get him out of the game. Go back and look at
the tape. One foul on [Hancock], if I recall, was a clean block.
Cleanest block I ever saw. Unfortunately, [referee] Joe [DeRosa] was on it. And he's been working for Wes for the past several years.
"Phantom fouls work on a number of levels. You can send a guy to
the bench for an entire half, or you can call timely fouls, when your
team really needs a bucket, or you can get a guy in foul trouble and
make him unable to defend as he normally would. Or you can just foul him
out of the game. Wes' guys do all of the above. Whatever it takes. It's
their job, and they're good at it."
John Doe says Wes'
referees won't call fouls on the teams they want to lose. "Its smart.
Everybody wants to complain about phantom fouls. But what about all of
the times a player legitimately gets raked, and there's no whistle? Fans
aren't so bullish about those, because fans like to see the refs let
'em play - but it's a great way to hose a team."
http://www.thepasadenapost.com/
"The Pasadena Post conducted a telephone interview with John Doe,
whereupon he shared the following information, which John Doe says was
not derived from the emails and texts in his possession, but gathered
firsthand from his previous personal dealings and encounters with
Wesley"
Here's the whole story in case the article gets taken down:
5 Mar
Former William Wesley Acquaintance: Calipari, Kentucky, Cheated in 2014 NCAA Tournament
By Michael Miller
University of Kentucky head coach John Calipari
allegedly cheated his way through the 2014 NCAA tournament - and is
prepared to do it again this year, according to an individual who claims
to be a former associate of power broker and super agent William Wesley.
Calipari and Wesley have been closely connected for many years. In 2012, The Oregonian's John Canzano wrote about Wesley's presence in New Orleans for the 2012 NCAA Championship game. After Kentucky claimed the title over Kansas, Canzano wrote, "Wildcats star Anthony Davis
climbed into the stands and shared a celebratory hug with Wesley, who
was sitting in the Kentucky family section inside the Superdome."
The
aforementioned whistleblower-acquaintance of Wesley, who presently
wishes to remain anonymous for personal reasons, says he has in his
possession a number of emails and texts to that were exchanged between
Kentucky assistant Kenny Payne, Calipari, Wesley, and numerous
college basketball officials over the past several college basketball
seasons. John Doe did not want to elaborate on how he came up the emails
and texts, or whether he was privy to the exchanged messages.
The
Pasadena Post conducted a telephone interview with John Doe, whereupon
he shared the following information, which John Doe says was not derived
from the emails and texts in his possession, but gathered firsthand
from his previous personal dealings and encounters with Wesley:
"[Retired NBA player] Damon Stoudamire
was on record a few years back stating [that] Wes is running the NBA.
There're journalists in-the-know who think he's running all of
basketball. That's an understatement. He's the most powerful man in sports."
Numerous college basketball officials are handsomely paid by Wesley to
officiate Kentucky games. Calipari and Payne inform Wesley which games
they requests referees for, and Wesley is the linchpin. "All of
Kentucky's NCAA tournament games last year, Wes had at least one of his
guys there. Everyone of 'em. The Wichita State game was
laughable. Cal was calling out plays to the officials from the sideline.
It was blatant cheating down the stretch of that game, and Cal's giving
the go-ahead. His fist in the air. Holding up five fingers. Who was he
calling plays to? His players weren't even looking at him. He was
signaling [referee] Mike Reed. Go back and watch it yourself."
John Doe says Calipari has two objectives as head basketball coach: to
win games in the NCAA tournament with Kentucky, and to prevent
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino from winning basketball games
at Louisville. "Cal's obsessed with Pitino. Always has been. The two had
a falling out somewhere in the late 1990s or early 2000s, after they
both had rough stints in the NBA and returned to college, and it's been
ugly ever since. Pitino's indifferent. He doesn't care about Cal one way
or the other. But Cal, his stated mission when he took over at Kentucky
was to run Pitino out of the state. That's a fact. [WDRB.com and former
Louisville Courier-Journal columnist] Rick Bozich even said as
much in one of his columns a few years back. So what Cal and Wes do,
they'll have their refs at non-Kentucky games that Louisville is playing
for three primary reasons: to hopefully cause a Louisville loss, to
scout Louisville's team for when Cal has to play them, to know which
players to call fouls on, and to keep Wes' crew working. The more games
they work for Wes, the more they get paid. It happened tonight in the Notre Dame (versus
Louisville) game. I haven't watched many Louisville games this season,
but I caught tonight's game and two of Wes' guys were there, Joe DeRosa.
Mike called phantom fouls on Louisville's centers, took them out of the
game. Louisville's players got mugged, Joe didn't call anything. It was
blatant, and it usually is, if you know who's working for Wes and Cal.
And Kenny, he doesn't like Pitino, either. He's an old-school, [former
Louisville coach] Denny Crum guy, and he's never been OK with how Pitino took over the helm after his guy.
"No (laughs), I'm not a Louisville fan. I'm not a fan of any team in particular. I'm drawn to players. Patrick Ewing
was one of the best collegiate players I ever saw. Anthony Davis was a
once-in-a-lifetime-talent, he was a joy to watch. There's been a lot of
players over the years I've enjoyed watching. But with Louisville, I'm
just telling you what I know. And Cal, he doesn't give a (expletive)
about Louisville - it's Pitino. It's personal. And it's smart. He knows,
as the coach of Kentucky, that Kentucky fans want three things: NCAA
titles, Final Fours, and to beat Louisville. He's no dummy. He'd want to
beat Louisville if Pitino wasn't there; but the fact that he is there,
it takes it to another level. He'll stop at nothing to make sure
Louisville loses at every corner. And the fact of the matter is, pretty
much every year Cal's been at Kentucky - other than Cal's first year at
Kentucky - Cal's biggest threat has been Louisville. You take Cal's
clandestine activities out of the equation since he's been in Lexington,
and Louisville easily has two NCAA titles. [Louisville] would have won
it all last season, if Cal and Wes hadn't intervened. [Louisville] swept
[2014 NCAA title winners] UConn, beat 'em three times [in the
2013-14 basketball season], easily. [Calipari's] very good at
[preventing Louisville from winning]. [Calipari] had no business
defeating Louisville last season. Both games were cheating on level I
didn't think he'd get to. But he got there."
"I told a friend
about I think Wes set up the Midwest region last year - and my friend,
he laughed, because he doesn't follow the sport that closely and doesn't
know Wes like I do, but I think Wes helped set up the Midwest region
last year. I really do. I can't prove it, but I've heard things. He was
involved. Look, the other stuff is fact. The refs, the play-calling from
the sideline. [Calipari] has been pulling that stuff for years. Is Wes
capable of getting to the NCAA selection committee? I wouldn't put it
past him. He was a regular with the [Chicago] Bulls in the 1990s, probably the greatest dynasty in modern basketball, at any level. [Retired NBA and former Bulls player] Scottie Pippen
says Wes knows everyone. When you're joined at hip with Nike,
anything's possible. We're talking about a multibillion-dollar business,
college basketball. Money talks. Power talks. Wes has both.
"My B.S. detector went off when I saw the seedings revealed last year.
According to its RPI, Kentucky should've been no worse than a four
[seed]. They were given an eight [seed]. How did that happen? Every
other team was seeded in accordance to their RPIs. So Kentucky's paired
up with Kansas State. Remember that game? One of the refs gave a
technical to K-State before the game even started. First time in NCAA
tournament history, a team was on the scoreboard before tipoff.
"It was a favorable draw. Cal got K-State and Wichita in St. Louis, two home games. He got Louisville
in [Indianapolis] - another home game. How many eight seeds get to stay
that close to home in the Big Dance? I think Cal knew the two biggest
threats in last year's tournaments were Louisville and Wichita [State].
He wanted to eliminate both. His regular season had been a disaster, and
what better saving grace than to be able to take out the first
undefeated team since 1976 Indiana? And then your in-state rival?
Funny how that worked out. And he had two of his refs working both of
those games - that part I can verify. I know those guys. They do well
for themselves. The regional setup, that's my own speculation it's just
never added up."
Wesley is a "charming guy, a nice guy. I don't
want to elaborate on the details of our [association]. I don't feel I
need to. He's elusive, enigmatic - so am I; I'm a private individual. We
don't speak anymore, I'll say that much. It happens in life all the
time. People go their separate ways."
John Doe felt compelled
to share his story because he "didn't want to see another program get
shammed again this year" like in 2014. "Last year, it was hard to watch.
I've never had a problem with Wes, Kenny or Cal having the best team
that money can buy. That stuff goes on almost everywhere. It's gone on
for decades. If it's not the coach, it's a booster the coach may or may
not know about. Sam Gilbert built the UCLA dynasty. That's
no secret. College basketball has always been a functioning underground
economy. You don't have to see 'Blue Chips' to know that much. It's
gotten worse in the past decade or so. Again, we're talking about a
multibillion-dollar industry. Name me one [multibillion-dollar industry]
that's above corruption. Cal just takes it to another level at
Kentucky, because he has Wes. Kentucky never got close to putting
together a team of eight or nine McDonald's All-Americans in the past.
Never. [Former Kentucky coach] Pitino signed less than a dozen -
five, actually, if I recall - McDonald's All-Americans in eight seasons
at Kentucky, and that was a golden age of Kentucky basketball. Heck,
[Pitino] only had two [McDonald's All-Americans] that played significant
minutes on his 1996 title team (Tony Delk, Antoine Walker). One of them
didn't even play, or barely played and was a freshman (Wayne Turner).
The other was a freshman, too (Ron Mercer) and was a reserve. And
Memphis never got that kind of talent until Wes showed up. Look at Cal's
record at Memphis from 2000 to 2005. It was average. Double-digit
losses. His 2005 Memphis team was pretty bad. I think that's when Cal
said [screw] it: 'They couldn't touch me at UMass,
if they want to try to get me here, I'll get the hell out of dodge.'
Wes gets involved after the 2005 season and it's 30 wins, 30 wins, Derrick Rose, more wins.
"But hiring officials and calling out plays from the sidelines,
that's where I gotta draw the line. That's Lance
Armstrong-level-cheating. Kentucky was an average team last year. They
weren't a very good team. They didn't deserve to win a game in that
tournament, and they advanced to the title game because Cal was calling
out plays and the refs were doing their thing."
John Doe says
Wesley's predetermined-officials primarily alter games for Calipari by
using several tactics. "Well, last year, for example, and even in
regular season games this year, Cal will get the ball in the hands of
his best free throw shooters, set the play up with the official, and
that player will get fouled. It happened at [Texas] A&M this
year. Wes' guys won that one for Cal. It happened like clockwork in the
tournament last year. Whenever Kentucky needed a bucket in the Wichita
game, [Kentucky point guard] Andrew Harrison had the ball in his
hands and Wichita got rung up for a phantom foul, and it sent one of his
best free throw shooters to the line for a couple easy ones. There's a
reason Cal loves those twins - they're the perfect players for his ruse.
Give them the ball, send them to the line, get easy points."
Another tactic Wesley's officials will use, according to John Doe, is
to call nonexistent or "phantom fouls" on Kentucky's opponents. "The
phantom foul is Cal's best friend. He pretty much fouled every big
Louisville had on its team in the Sweet 16 last year. He got [former
Louisville player] Luke Hancock on the bench for most of the first half in that one. [Former Kentucky player] James Young couldn't
check [Hancock]. He was a threat. Cal knew that. What do you do with a
threat? You eliminate it. Get him out of the game. Go back and look at
the tape. One foul on [Hancock], if I recall, was a clean block.
Cleanest block I ever saw. Unfortunately, [referee] Joe [DeRosa] was on it. And he's been working for Wes for the past several years.
"Phantom fouls work on a number of levels. You can send a guy to
the bench for an entire half, or you can call timely fouls, when your
team really needs a bucket, or you can get a guy in foul trouble and
make him unable to defend as he normally would. Or you can just foul him
out of the game. Wes' guys do all of the above. Whatever it takes. It's
their job, and they're good at it."
John Doe says Wes'
referees won't call fouls on the teams they want to lose. "Its smart.
Everybody wants to complain about phantom fouls. But what about all of
the times a player legitimately gets raked, and there's no whistle? Fans
aren't so bullish about those, because fans like to see the refs let
'em play - but it's a great way to hose a team."
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