As was confirmed Friday by ESPN, Memphis accepted Robert Dozier after Georgia was scared off by his SAT performance:  after an initially high performance, which saw Dozier finish in the 76th percentile in the verbal section and the 89th in math – a considerable jump from his PSAT scores – alarm bells went off.  When he was asked to retest, his score fell from 1260 to 720, and the original score was invalidated.

No problem for Memphis apparently; Dozier was accepted. 

Dozier’s can’t be discussed when the NCAA will talk about Derrick Rose’s issues on Saturday; John Calipari, who is in China, will phone in for that.  And it may end up that Dozier’s situation never comes up, that the NCAA doesn’t find enough to investigate.  But add that to rest of the players Memphis got from Laurinburg, which was decertified by the NCAA, and it does make one wonder. 

That’s on the Memphis side of things.  Meanwhile, back in Lexington, as it turns out, the Kentucky athletic department has racked up a lot of secondary violations – try 59, including a restaurant owner who "comped" Kentucky basketball players.  He’s been disassociated from the program.

Obviously these are two different situations at two different schools, and whatever you can say about John Calipari, he wasn’t responsible for what happened at Kentucky before he got there.  But there is this to ponder.

These are two programs that have been hammered, heavily, by the NCAA over the years, and not just once, and while Memphis has historically played fast and loose, Kentucky is a unique situation, athletically and culturally.

You might remember a few years ago that a woman had a minor accident with a Kentucky player.  What you might have forgotten, or not known, is the ugly aftermath of that accident: the woman was harassed and ultimately felt that she had to drop her claims because of the level of harassment.

There is a lot of glory to Kentucky basketball, but the way that the fans close ranks and drive out threatening thoughts and people is just creepy.  You can see it to an extent in the local media, which has rallied behind Calipari, who hasn’t even coached a game yet, and assured fans that he is fine (you could see the opposite during the Emery scandal, when the Lexington paper was vilified and threatened for pursuing the truth).

You can see it in a different way with the way the relationship with former coach Rick Pitino has evolved.  He was an absolute idol when he led the team to redemption and a national title.  They were sad but somewhat understanding when he left for the Celtics, but when he came back to Louisville, feelings began to change.  Up until a few weeks ago, when they still had a fantasy of rehiring him, there were warm feelings.  But after Calipari took the job?  Pitino was suddenly treated with scorn.

One wonders what will happen to the waitress who accidentally let the beans spill about the "comp" meals.  If anyone wants to write an interesting story, there’s probably one there.

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