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Shaq in the house. Good sign.
Randolph looks really good, don't think they will miss Rawlie while he is out.
Saw a highlight video on youtube, my goodness it's a testament to how good Bagley and Porter are that Ayton isn't presumed to be the first pick in the draft, he's ridiculously physically gifted and when he shoots like that he's impossible to handle.
The biggest difference is his body and athleticism. He was more of a "lumbering" center in HS but now he looks like David Robinson. He never lifted weights before college and I read he only did push ups. Miller will finally have a great pro he can point to in the NBA.
Also, what was Miller thinking putting Trier and Ayton on the same team lol.
Also, what was Miller thinking putting Trier and Ayton on the same team lol.
Completely dismantled a good Chico St team without Randolph and Smith that went toe-to-toe with Stanford last week.
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NAU coming for that dubya
Bet money that Phelps bought Pinder a meal or something stupid like that. Maybe last season, Miller does nothing but give a verbal reprimand.
Miller is going to run a very tight ship for a while now at least until the FBI stuff is over.
Houston suspended someone 1 game for playing a game at a church rec league. There’s going to be zero to,erance for any violations this season by every team. It seems.Everyone is being extra careful it appears. I put on the A&M and West Virginia game. A & M has 3 players suspended, Williams and Hogg their best players are both suspended for unspecified team or university rule violations.
Hogg apparently will play but not start. And West Virginia has a guy out for half the season on suspension
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A plane ticket? Little more than a meal, but Phelps has to be smarter than this.
Highly skeptical on those reports it can't be 1 game for a plane ticket to Australia? I looked on expedia, from Arizona to Perth is about 2K round trip, about 1500 one way. That's way over the threshold of 1 game, it's at least 5 and more like 9 games if true.
G Tech has 2 guys suspended indefinitely that got far less than that and from a guy they claimed had no ties until he said he did. That much money from an assistant coach would be way more than 1 game I have to think.
Pinder also immediately paid Phelps back. Richard Jefferson got 2 games IIRC for Bill Walton giving him and Luke tickets to the NBA finals. It's all nonsense by the NCAA anyways.
I've seen the posts on the boards I have no idea who the original source is on that part but it's pretty clear someone is telling them a version that tries to make it seem innoccuous and actually makes it seem worse. They are reporting that Phelps did not know it was against the rules, it wasn't Australia but somewhere "special" to Pinder, and he paid him back immediately upon returning.
The reality is it doesn't matter, if the NCAA had found out first they would have required him to pay the money back, which he apparently has, then sit out based on the amount of the ticket, so where he went matters due to cost. If the official ARizona excuse is that the assistant coaches are not aware of compliance rules to the extent they think they're allowed to loan plane tickets to players without getting prior approval from the compliance department then there's a much bigger issue and a total lack of compliance at Arizona.
I don't think arizona is that bad at compliance I think some insider got part of the story and tried to spin it in a light that sounded better to him, and doesn't realize that claiming Phelps doesn't know a basic rule like that actually makes it sound much worse.
A 1 game suspension to me implies the value of the ticket is under $500. If it's over 1000 we're talking 3-6 games.
I don't think it's a huge deal but blaming the NCAA for something like this is hard to follow, it's a basic rule you can't loan money or items of value to players. In special circumstances like a player has to fly home for a death in the family, the NCAA will grant waivers but you have to go through compliance. I hope for ARizona's sake their official excuse is not the coach didn't know the rules, that would look terrible.