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Originally Posted by xubrew View Post
In regards to Derrick Rose, not only am I rather certain that Memphis did not know about it, I'm rather certain that they had no way of knowing about it.

For starters, it is the admissions office, not the athletic department, that ultimately deals with test scores. No one in athletics can even seem them until the admissions office has validated them. Secondly, it is the Clearing House/Eligibility Center that ultimately says whether or not a player is eligible to play. The NCAA said Rose could play. So, why should Memphis be suspicious of anything?

It wasn't until January (so we're talking his second semester of college after he had already been declared eligible to play by the NCAA, not once, but TWICE) that the ETS red flagged anything. Like the IRS, the ETS runs audits and a computer red flags things that are out of the ordinary such as a huge jump in score, or in the case of Rose, him taking the exam in another city. It's my understanding that they never even suspected him of cheating. The scores were similar. The last time he took it was the highest, but it wasn't alarmingly high, and furthermore his signature matched. They just wanted to know what he was doing in another city.

So, they asked him. Rose didn't respond. They tried asking him again and said that if he didn't respond he ran the risk of having his score invalidated. Rose didn't respond. By this point it was May. When the ETS invalidates a score, they notify every place the student requested the score be sent to, which in this case included Memphis and the NCAA Clearing House. Until that happened, no one had any idea that he was ineligible. Because, well, he WASN'T ineligible.

It was later discovered that the reason Rose was not responding was because the ETS was mailing everything to an address that he no longer lived at. So, if the signatures matched (and it's my understanding that they did), and had he known the ETS was trying to get in touch with him to ask about what he was doing in Detroit (he went to an NBA playoff game), then I don't think his score would have been invalidated.

Furthermore, the NCAA didn't fault Calipari at all. They also said that Memphis did not knowingly break any rules in regards to his eligibility. Hell, they themselves declared him to be eligible.

Calipari has perhaps done a lot of crap, but Derrick Rose should not be on the list. If anything, it's something people get hung up on, which is unfortunate because it's a distraction from some of the other things he may have done that were illegal.

Bottom line, if you don't actually see the test scores until they have been validated, and the NCAA tells you that he is eligible to play, then how in the hell are you supposed to know that anything is wrong??

This contradicts what the NCAA investigator said.
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