Glossing over the obvious...

[Dooby]

Maybe this belongs in the basketball forum, but it is death penalty related so I shall post it here. This excerpt appears in today DMN article on Amare Stoudemire.

Then there were the associations with people who would best be described as "hangers-on."

One Nike-affiliated coach posted a $1,000 bail for Stoudemire's mother. (Most of his mother's offenses were related to theft charges). An adidas representative had Stoudemire and a younger brother living with him and coaxed an oral commitment to the University of Memphis out of Stoudemire. Another Nike representative, former college coach George Raveling, gave Stoudemire's mother $100 while she was in jail.

It's a sordid tale, to be sure. But the Stoudemire family emerged on the other side of all the controversies with mother and sons together for Stoudemire's successful senior high school season.

When it came time to choose between college and the NBA, Stoudemire knew he was ready to embark on his dream.

How can anyone even think this guy was eligible to play college sports? Why isn't anyone at the NCAA calling Memphis for a little chat?

[PonySnob]

It's time to get over the Death Penalty thing!! You want to complain, go by Bill Clements house and let him know how you feel about what he did to SMU.

[jtstang]

It's time to get over the Death Penalty thing!! You want to complain, go by Bill Clements house and let him know how you feel about what he did to SMU.

I was a student during the death penalty years and was accordingly robbed of part of my college experience by a bunch of lying, cheating and stealing players, coaches and adminstrators, not to mention them leaving the program in shambles from which it has never returned, so I'll not be getting over it any time soon. But thanks for chiming in.

[EastStang]

This is small potatoes. Better is the fact that the NCAA cornheads cleared Ohio State of any wrongdoing surrounding Maurice Clarett. I guess the cars, the money and the clothes were a fiction of his imagination. Or perhaps, he solicited them on his own from persons who were not "boosters". I wonder how much that payoff cost CBS and ESPN.

[PonySnob]

I was a student during the death penalty years and was accordingly robbed of part of my college experience by a bunch of lying, cheating and stealing players, coaches and adminstrators, not to mention them leaving the program in shambles from which it has never returned, so I'll not be getting over it any time soon. But thanks for chiming in.

I was also a student during those years so I feel that I was robbed as well. Unfortunately, for the program to be doing this poorly for the entire 15 years since football started being played again, one has to look at the administration as the problem.

[LA_Mustang]

So you’re close to forty years old and you refer to yourself as a snob, an image that SMU so desperately needs to shed?? Classy. I have always chalked up your name and troll like posts to youthful immaturity, but I guess I was wrong.

[OldPony]

That 's how I chose mine. Youthful immaturity.

[Water Pony]

I wish my name referred to being "wet behind the ears", but it really means "water under the bridge!"