Given all of the college point shaving scandals through the years, this is not exactly the image that Myles Brand wants to project to the public of, well, student-athletes
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
I have no issue with this, good for him. For everyone taking the moral high ground don't forget J.J.'s run in with a DUI! He probably should not have gone, but not a big deal glad he won. Acutally to bad he didn't loose so bad that someone told him to throw the game to forgive his debt! J/k It is not a big deal.
Ding, ding, we have a winner. This is not jst a 21 year old having fun. This is one of the most important players on a team preparing to play for a national championship, upon which a lot, A LOT of money is being wagered.
It wasn't an incredibly stupid thing to do, it was an incredibly stupid place to be.
IMO this whole thread is much ado about nothing.
Last edited by WiJoe; 04-03-2009 at 11:26 PM. Reason: editing
Exactly. I'm not much of a gambler (this thread prompted me to try an online craps game, and I couldn't even figure out what the heck to do), but I kinda applaud the guy for being open about partaking in a fully legal activity. If the NCAA is worried about that, then the whole endeavor is in a heap of trouble.
The Lawson story is mildly amusing. The consternation on this thread is mind-boggling, IMO.
Isn't that Jay Bilas, in the upper left hand corner, offering advice?
this will only be relevant or funny if they lose....if they win the whole thing, they are teflon..
uconn might not be....but unc will certainly be...
Right, the Villanova player did score, down by 3, but was ruled to have traveled beforehand so the basket was waived off. I'm just saying that even if the travel call hadn't been made, Carolina still would have had the ball and a 1 point lead with 7 seconds left. And yes, they could have lost with that scenario but the chances are much greater, IMO, that they would have still won. I also remember that the talking TV heads were evenly split as to whether the travel call was correct or not - Rick Majerus was adamant that it was correct. To me, the call only served to even out the fact that, for the only time that entire season, Ray Felton fouled out of a game - courtesy of at least one call that seemed very questionable. Had Felton been in the game to its conclusion, Villanova probably never even gets as close as it did in the final minute.