Comments on: Well, That Didn’t Take Long…

By: Memphis Shouldn’t Be Alone | Hard Knox Sports

Memphis Shouldn’t Be Alone | Hard Knox Sports — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:39:28 +0000

[...] Kansas gets to keep their NCAA title? Darrell Arthur, a key member of Kansas team in 2008, had a grade changed while in high school to keep him eligible. His team had to forfeit their state championship win. If [...]

By: franklin

franklin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:49:49 +0000

If, and that is a big supposition, grades were changed for DA during his sophomore year in High School, it has no effect on KU or his college eligibility. The teacher likely violated state and federal privacy laws by illegally peering into a student’s grades and then showing the grades to the media. If anyone is at fault here, it is the accuser, because academic records are protected material that should NEVER be given out without a judicial warrant or a waiver from the student. There’s a reason schools must obtain academic transcripts directly from the student or have the student fill out a waiver form.
Also, KU is not affected by this because the university was given clearance for DA from the NCAA Clearinghouse, whose responsibility is to ensure the validity of transcripts. This usually entails precursory interviews with school officials, be it via phone or in person. The Clearinghouse has no legal authority to depose teachers or administrators for the purposes of validating a transcript, so they must go on the words of the interviewees, the transcript, and the school’s standing in the community and state. KU is absolved of any and all wrong doing, because at no time were they ever informed of supposed wrong doing. KU is an ethically run school (the ‘88 probation was caused by Brown providing airfare for a student to return home to visit an ailing relative… after the KU and SMU ordeals, they subsequently changed the rules to actually be fair… not that SMU didn’t deserve their death sentence)
Anyone that claims KU’s National Championship should be voided is simply ludicrous, jealous, angry, or a mixture of the three. DA had good grades at KU, mainly because the university provides mandatory tutoring for all first-year student D1 student athletes, and closely monitors ALL academic performance of student athletes (e.g. Bill Self finds out same or next day if a player misses a class)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:50:01 +0000

It is obviously a fact that Coach James Mays, Jr. runs a program that is not clean. One must keep eyes and ears open for the wrong doing that is in South Oak Cliff’s sport program.

By: 05.19.08 Fast Breaks « Rush the Court

05.19.08 Fast Breaks « Rush the Court — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:55:29 +0000

[...] Associate AD Jim Marchiony says nothing to see here with respect to the Darrell Arthur grade-changing scandal in high school. If Arthur were returning to KU next year, he may face some kind of suspension [...]

By: NBA Draft Preview Version 1.0 « Rush the Court

NBA Draft Preview Version 1.0 « Rush the Court — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:39:45 +0000

[...] Draft Preview Version 1.0 Lost in the huge O.J. Mayo scandal and the smaller Darrell Arthur scandal is the upcoming NBA Draft, which is a little over 1 month away. Unlike last year, where there was [...]

By: rtmsf

rtmsf — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:21:33 +0000

Right. Playing with an ineligible player (even if it wasn’t KU’s fault) exposes KU to the liability (i.e., penalties) of using him.

By: nvr1983

nvr1983 — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:12:28 +0000

SuperCorona, if Arthur didn’t actually make the grades necessary to meet eligibility requirements he should not have played, which means all the Jayhawks victories would be voided.

By: SuperCorona

SuperCorona — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:56 +0000

What’s KU got to do with this? The alleged grade changing happened long before Arthur was interested in KU. He had a verbal with Indiana, until Mike Davis left. The NCAA Clearinghouse said he was eligible and KU gave him a scholarship.