Kenyon Smith Revisited

A news note this morning that ex-ISU recruit Kenyon Smith has now reverballed to ISU.

As you recall, Smith, from Simeon, was first deemed eligible, enrolled at ISU for fall of 2008, then his ACT test score was invalidated in the middle of the Derrick Rose investigations, and Smith left school, and headed to Lincoln College, a D-II juco.

Links to support all this will be below...

But here are a few shady issues........

--four Simeon D-I kids had their grades altered and to this date the whole scandal has been swept under the rug and nobody's talking...not Simeon, not IHSA, not anyone. But then NONE of those four are presently playing D-I ball.
(Derrick Rose, Kenyon Smith, Tim Flowers, Kevin Johnson)

BUT - in addition to the grade-changing scandal at Simeon, there was a totally separate scandal where the players were fraudulently having someone else take their ACT tests for them.

Now we know that it has been pretty widely accepted that Rose was one of the cheaters, and that Flowers & Johnson were two more..but it's been kept kinda quiet who the fourth guy was.
But there can be little doubt...nobody else at Simeon was even a D-I candidate...so it had to be Kenyon Smith...plus his course verified it when he was deemed ineligible for the same reasons as Rose.

So this is, of course, further confirmed by the fact that right after Smith entered ISU, his ACT test result was nullified, leaving Smith ineligible and headed to juco.

But - if Smith graduates from Lincoln, then he will be eligible by virtue of having a juco degree, but is this fair if indeed he cheated twice with his high school grades and his ACT scores?
And why does Jankovich keep going after guys with shady pasts?? Guys from Vashon when it was proven they all were cheating, and now guys from Simeon?

And why would Jank go after a guy with these PROVEN suspicions, even if they are being kept hush-hush?
Anyway, with the verbal of Jordan Threloff, ISU appears to be out of scholarships for 2010...so who is going to have their ride janked in order to give one to Kenyon Smith?

But then with Bobby Hill's career possibly done and with several of the 2010 scholarshiop guys being prior walk ons, it is very likely a scholarship will be freed up by janking one from someone else.

Lastly, it'll be interesting in a couple weeks to see if Kenyon Smith is asked by Jankovich to sign a Letter of Intent.
If he does, then I wonder if the people who claimed this
"he has to play 2 semsters of JUCO ball before he can sign"
will change their opinion....

and if he does NOT sign, then it might mean Jank wants to wait to see how Kenyon develops, as he really hasn't played ball in a couple years.
Even when he did at Simeon, he wasn't a scorer..

ISU will run into some possible point guard issues.....
This year they have a whole lot of talent....but the only guys capable of playing point guard are maybe Eldridge, Phillips, Rubin, and Terry Johnson...but all four of those guys were really shooting guards in high school and none have been really effective playing PG.
And Eldridge will play PG only as a trial to give him an opportunity to develop the one skill that might get him to the NBA, as precious few 6-2 shooting guards who score 14 ppg and hit only 35% of their outside shots ever make it.
Oddly Phillips is on maybe a final string having been booted from the team last year then allowed back on at the end of the season.

Then next year, they lose both Eldridge and Phillips, and Rubin has never developed, meaning they'll really have a hole at point guard...so Jank is probably gotta grab for at least ONE PG for 2010....but watch for even more roster maneuvers in an effort to land more PG depth.

http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6271764/15279068
http://yourseason.suntimes.com/boys_basketball/1595888,052709-derrick-rose-ncaa-investigation.article
http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6271764/15270036
http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/college/article_732437ca-097d-5520-bed7-c2a35c8226c0.html
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=134172#post134172
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/may/29/local/chi-29-derrick-rose-may29
http://www.jagslife.com/Quinn/scholarships.html
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