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Post by UICJason on Feb 7, 2005 17:23:41 GMT -6
...and there goes that race card again... Yeah, pretty unnecessary with the race thing. I think the sign is clever as much as I don't like it. I can always appreciate the other side's being clever. One of my favorite signs was at US Cellular field when the Cubs were at the Sox, and there was a "Sammy, Entertain me with your Corked Bat" after Sosa said that he used the "C" Bat to entertain fans during batting practice.
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Post by Bruces Tape Recorder on Feb 7, 2005 17:56:22 GMT -6
The astonishing thing about the whole Thomas affair is how outrageous it was. The NCAA got away with hosing Illinois because most people couldn't believe they would do anything wrong, or that they would punish a school that had not been wrong (except for the few things they found that are the NCAA equivalent of parking violations). In fact, they were and are not set up to investigate disputed facts. They just assume that anyone that reports a school is telling the truth. Our investigation was extremely thorough, even though we had no supboena power or other means to compel people to talk to us. We embarrassed them and their staff by demonstrating that the alleged major violations had in fact never occurred. They were quoted afterwards as saying "just because we couldn't prove it doesn't mean it didn't happen". The car thing was particularly absurd. Bardo and another player had asked an assistant coach to recommend a place to buy a used car. The coach did. The kids went there and gave the car salesman the information for the financing form. The form was not filled out in all respects. The kids got to buy a car anyway. From this, the NCAA found that they had been given some sort of perk from the car dealer. One of the professors on the committee even remarked that the players had been allowed to buy a car without putting up collateral, apparently forgetting that in a car loan, the car serves as the collateral. There was never any showing that they got cars at below market price or that they would have been denied credit had the salesman filled out the form completely. They just needed to find enough violations to punish us for what they couldn't prove, and they did.
As has been said elsewhere, Bruce Pearl is walking vomit and will forever be stuck in the low-mid majors - bad karma will always follow him and anyone associated with him (look at the Iowa program).
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Post by NewFoundGlory on Feb 7, 2005 18:57:12 GMT -6
Yeah, pretty unnecessary with the race thing. Sorry dad.
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Post by Bruces Tape Recorder on Feb 8, 2005 1:59:33 GMT -6
Actually the student in the picture should have a sign that says: "Mom/Dad - transfer me to a school with prettier girls".
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Post by COMEDY GOLD on Feb 8, 2005 3:12:14 GMT -6
We bussed them in. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D LOL ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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