Sherwood Blount still at it after all these years

[Southland]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/writers/mike_fish/10/27/alexander/index.html

[EastStang]

There's very special place in hell for him and his ilk.

[i10pony]

I remember Alexander. There was so much hype around that guy when he picked Arkansas. Nolan Richardson and Eddie Sutton knew this guy's story when they brought him aboard.

[PonyTales]

I remember seeing Glendon play in the 9th or 10th grade, and thinking all the hype surrounding him didn't do him justice. He was by far the most amazing high school player I've ever seen. More than anything, I urge everyone to be sensitive about what's said on this subject - his younger sister, Kaci, was a center on the SMU women's basketball team and by all accounts is a model citizen and a terrific young lady. This saga has to have been hard for her and the rest of her family. Best wishes to her, whatever she's now doing.

[Charleston Pony]

talk all you want about being at a competitive disadvantage in recruiting because we don't offer curriculum necessary to bring in JUCO transfers, but as this article suggests, NOT paying players makes it tough to compete for top talent. College athletics are every bit as dirty today as they have been forever. Gotta love Booby Knight's refusal to attend the "ethics" meeting and his comment about those who were speaking!

[i10pony]

Yeah Kaci was a nice girl she lived in my dorm.I didn't know Glendon is her brother.

[SoCal_Pony]

CP,

Your comments are so true.

Among the highlights of the article:

According to Alexander, some college coaches were paying him simply to stay in the running for his future services. In the prison visiting room, Alexander pulls out three crumpled pages of notes and starts reading off names and amounts: $3,500 from a Pac-10 coach at a summer basketball camp; tickets to the 1995 Final Four in Seattle from another Pac-10 coach; $6,500 from one Big 12 coach during a campus visit and $1,000 from another; $2,000 tucked inside a media guide from an SEC assistant.

The summer after his freshman season (1997?), Alexander drove home to Dallas in a black 1996 Ford Expedition.

While avoiding schoolwork at Arkansas like the plague, Alexander says he was awarded grades good enough to keep him eligible. "I wasn't going to class -- none of the players were,'' he boasts. "We just played basketball and hung out.''

[bubba pony]

makes SMU basketball graduation rate of 80% (the second highest in the Nation) look mighty good to a recruit. jail or a college degree? certainly the SMU coaches can use this fact as a recruiting tool.

[Charleston Pony]

yes, but the point is that SMU cannot pursue that group of very talented Neanderthals who aren't quite good enough for the NBA, but have no business attending college. Because of their bball skills, however, there are plenty of top programs more than happy to have them, if only for one or two seasons...and they somehow remain eligible!

[Arkpony]

An article in today' Arkansas Democrat-Gazette refers to the $10,000 he recived at Arkansas and the fact that he and none of the B-Ball players went to class, and also, of course, points out that the NCAA will do nothing as there is a 4 year statute of limitations. No comment by the Arkansas admiistration of course.
It really irks me how I get so much flak from Arkansas boosters about SMU and the cheating, when it has gone on and, and probably still does, at Arkansas (and all the other major schools for that matter!)

[mrydel]

Arkpony:

Did you see in the SI article where Nolan said that Alexander was a habitual liar? Guess Nolan did not believe him when he kept saying the boosters were giving him money.