Francisco Franco Is Still Dead. Are Preston and De Sousa Still Not Cleared?
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Generalissimo!
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Sources say that today is the day, and a decision could be coming at any minute.
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@HighEliteMajor I honestly can’t tell if you are serious or if this is sarcasm! Ha!
I’m sort of disgusted with myself in regards to how many times during the day I have randomly googled Billy Preston and Silvio to see if there is any news. Please let there be news soon so I can put my troubled mind at ease.
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HighEliteMajor said:
Sources say that today is the day, and a decision could be coming at any minute.
LOL.
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@joeloveshawks How many clicks DOES it take to get the center of the BillyPop?
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I’m going to say it straight out now , this BS with De Sousa has gone way past insane now, and don’t come at me with your feeble excuse anymore about OH WELL the NCAA office was closed it was around Christmas time, save that crap for somebody else cause I’m not buying it any longer.
De Sousa got his clearance everybody knew he was coming as I checked back on the article Dec 22nd people knew that he was on his way
Ya Ya let me hear you say OH well since he is from Bum F - - - Eygpt it takes longer,- -NEWS FLASH it’s been longer. - - This should have been a wrap for some time now. - - Even with the NCAA not doing ANYTHING but drinking eggnog and eating gingersnap cookies since they have got back from their little Christmas break it’s STILL been a week and a half now since they have been back. - - REALLY? - - - SERIOUSLY ? - -a week and a half to gain him clearance? - -Come on let’s be real. - -This boy has earned the right to play, his grades was good enough - his SAT was good enough - -I don’t need to hear anymore lame ass excuses - -Bottom line NCAA do your fricken job -and that doesn’t include the eggnog.
I mean really , it’s not like they have 10 - - -20- – cases of players trying to gain eligibility at this point of the season. - - They have De Sousa - maybe another case but please holy crap are they that incompetent , ENOUGH of the excuses already - -do your job - take a little less time playing grab ass at the office with the office help whether it’s male or female your playing grab ass with - -take a minute - - remove your hand from the ass - - from the crotch and do what your really surpose to be doing while at work. - -Enough is Enough , play time is over - -this isn’t romper room - it’s Basketball 101. - -there is no more excuses as to why they are not getting this done - -don’t try and even stick up for these idiots - ain’t buying it – ain’t hearing it.
De Sosua should be cleared by now - -no if’s and’s or but’s Billy now - - - - - that MIGHT be little different story - -but come on like I said they are not swamped with having to clear multiple players at this time of year - give me a fricken break - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Billy Preston isnt coming through that door… Silvio DeSousa isnt coming through that door…
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This is actually a busy time for the NCAA. The early signing period for football just happened and kids that are enrolling early have to be cleared to do so. Just sayin.
The Silvio situation certainly should have been cleared up. Why wasn’t it cleared at the same times as his academics? But as we find out nothing as easy as 1,2,3 boom he’s here and playing, that is, unless your Duke that can get a kid eligible in a week after attending a sham school for a year.
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@Jayballer54 I hear you. I wonder how long it took Maryland to get Silvio’s buddy, Bruno, cleared. They are from the same area (Angola) and played on the same teams together. I guess it makes a big diff if you are playing on the coast as opposed to playing in the Midwest.
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Missus Self declares that her man actually sleeps better after losses. Considering the daily no-win situation with DeSousa and Preston, Coach most likely is hibernating like a grizzly.
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The NCAA has their hands full. Bowen, late of Louisville, whose father has struck it rich (unbeknown to the kid, acc to FBI), has now enrolled at South Carolina and they are starting the whole eligibility clearance thing for him. F Martin sounded like they will seek a waiver so he can play next fall, but it looks like spring 2019. He is eligible to enter the draft but assured USC he wants to be here all next season.
Local paper thinks this could attract Zion to USC from his Clemson lean.
If this all pans out, Martin will have rebuilt quickly from losing the heart of the F4 team. 42% 3 pt shooter Rakym Felder is also back on campus doing things with the team after being booted for a second arrest in the summer (charges were dropped).
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Big Clyde52 said:
@Jayballer54 I hear you. I wonder how long it took Maryland to get Silvio’s buddy, Bruno, cleared. They are from the same area (Angola) and played on the same teams together. I guess it makes a big diff if you are playing on the coast as opposed to playing in the Midwest.
The big difference being Bruno wasn’t joining mid-season . The NCAA had time to clear Bruno along with the 99.9% of basketball players who go through this in the normal circumstances. Bruno also re-classified from 2016 into the 2017 class in order to improve his academic standing.
Did Bruno play on the same national team as Silvio? I thought their only connection was handler/being from the same country.
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The part where Bowen didn’t know his father took the money just doesn’t seem believable. Saw the ESPN story they ran on him recently, typical fluff piece
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@BeddieKU23 Most kids have no clue about their parents’ finances, so if Dad didn’t suddenly start spending it, I find it easy to believe. Now, since he had thought about going elsewhere, he might have wondered why Dad got more interested in Louisville, but it would not be hard for his Dad to come up with good reason to join a recent champ’ship winner and HOF coach.
Plus, the kid in the interest of due diligence probably felt a strong sense of duty to check out that hooker stuff.
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You may not have followed this kids recruitment but it was a weird one. First he was going to Izzo land, then Depaul, then Arizona, then Oregon and I’m probably forgetting a few along the way. The point being all these schools recruited him, had a connection in some way, Bowen personally took official visits and none of them could get his signature.
Then the “stars align” dad gets 100k from Louisville, son commits to the school days later after having little contact with the Bowen’s before. Seems a little weird right? Maybe not but in any case how much coincidence can one believe. Maybe Brian really wanted to play for Pitino and his father really wanted him to go there because there was a really good incentive to push him there.
They cleared the son of accepting or knowing about the money. They should do the right thing and let him play in my opinion. Heck of a gamble for Martin to take as the headlines will follow the school and player for a while
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Wouldn’t that open a slippery slope? Let’s recruit the parents and as long as the kid has plausible deniability he is gold…
As I understand, he has to sit one year because he transferred and he will eligible around this time next year.
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@JayHawkFanToo It certainly worked for Auburn and Cam Newton.
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JayHawkFanToo said:
Wouldn’t that open a slippery slope? Let’s recruit the parents and as long as the kid has plausible deniability he is gold…
As I understand, he has to sit one year because he transferred and he will eligible around this time next year.
I should have clarified I think he should be able to play next season, not just half of one. He’s already sat a year and his circumstances could make him a candidate for an appeal to get that other semester back.
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Do you think that was a right decision? I don’t.
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That we can agree on.
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Question: if the car reputedly involved in the Preston issue were a late 2017 model and a new model year were to have since occurred, would depreciation have to be factored into decision making?
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@jaybate-1.0 YES … De appreciation has to be factored into the equation !!
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I have all my eggs in one basket today… having predicted by the end of today we would hear something about Silvio.
Hope I don’t have to clean up a basket of broken eggs…
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I don’t believe you can use a depreciated value, you have to use the value of the benefit at the time of the infraction.
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@JayHawkFanToo @Red-Rooster @jaybate-1-0
True story from my Army JAG days representing soldiers convicted in courts-martial around the world. One client was a PFC pleading guilty to a simple assault. In a guilty plea the Military Judge goes over all the elements of the offense, and the accused tells his story to ensure he actually is guilty. The MJ then explains what the possible punishments are.
MJ: Now, Private Jones, you understand this is a Special Court-Martial with power to impose, among other things, a bad-conduct discharge?
Jones: Yessir, I do.
MJ: Do you understand that one of those other things you can be sentenced to is a forfeiture of 2/3 pay and allowances for a period of 6 months?
Jones: Yessir, I do.
MJ: And you understand that you also face a period of confinement up to 6 months? Do you have an appreciation of that as well?
Jones: No, Sir, I don’t! I don’t appreciate that at all!
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@mayjay Amen Brother ! ! Case Closed ! !
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So…they found him incompetent to stand trial?
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JayHawkFanToo said:
So…they found him incompetent to stand trial?
Some of my clients were literally barely competent to breathe. Back then 60 to 70 % of enlistees tested in the lowest acceptable quartile on entrance IQs (something like 75 to 85).
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mayjay said:
JayHawkFanToo said:
So…they found him incompetent to stand trial?
Some of my clients were literally barely competent to breathe. Back then 60 to 70 % of enlistees tested in the lowest acceptable quartile on entrance IQs (something like 75 to 85).
This was during war time then? Because that’s rough.
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@BShark Not war time. The army was hurting for enlistees at the end of the 70’s, post-draft era, when no one wanted to volunteer to join an outfit where you might get sent to die, for the exciting pay of something like $450 per month (1979).
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PHOF for the private!
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HighEliteMajor said:
Sources say that today is the day, and a decision could be coming at any minute.
Sources say tomorrow. And they’re great sources.
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Time check. 9:16 pm. About 2 3/4 hours for the eggs to survive.
drgnslayr said:
I have all my eggs in one basket today… having predicted by the end of today we would hear something about Silvio.
Hope I don’t have to clean up a basket of broken eggs…
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“Today” never ends.
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https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/03/12/cliff-alexander-kansas-jayhawks-ncaa-attorney
a reminder of how these work. The NCAA has all of the power.
“we don’t have to prove you are guilty, you have to prove you are not guilty”
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It’s today.
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mayjay said:
“Today” never ends.
Tomorrow never comes…
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So when was yesterday if it was today yesterday?
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Today is the tomorrow that you dreamed of yesterday.
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So…nightmares: memories or dread?
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Probably all of the above?
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Ok. Idk who Francisco Franco is. We got De Sousa! Bout freekin time. Thanks NCAA for sitting on that one as long as possible and even longer with Preston.
Off topic. @jaybate-1-0 I am waiting for you to post one of your WWI or II history stories mixed in with KU Basketball.
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@Lulufulu Ah, youngster, you missed so much!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead
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I’ve been trying it a different way this season. I have been interweaving the metaphor of Guadalcanal through intermittent references to The Canal in a succession of posts.
This regular season has so far been the six month campaign on Guadalcanal–trying to get ashore and fight without the necessary man power and with the needed reinforcements of the short handed team that is already ashore and trying to simultaneously hold Henderson Field and fight their way through tall grass and jungle with attrition of personnel. Think General Vandegrift trying to wage the first phase of a Soloman’s campaign with a skeleton crew green Marines and Army that can barely get resupplied because the troops and supplies keep being delayed off shore by the NCAA.
I have carried the metaphor up to the coming visit to Morgantown being this team’s apparently decisive Battle for the Tenaru River that culminated ultimately in hand to hand on a sand bar.
If the team were to prevail in this encounter with Huggins’ mashers, then the rest of the season looks like a Solomon Island Campaign island hopping up the slot to try to cut off Rabaul by taking both Bougaineville and New Britain and part of New Guinea, during the remainder of the front nine of the B12 campaign; then moving on to Tarawa, Guam/Saipan, for the Back Nine of the B12, then into post season Iwo and Okinawa, where the impossible will take a little longer.
Alas, if the team gets massacred on the Monogahela in Morgantown, then it maybe time to look for another metaphor.
