Where There's Smoke There's Fire - Kansas Fans Deserve a Whole Lot Better

I find a whole lot of irony in what's going on a Kansas lately...Kansas definitely has great tradition and great fans, but do the people in the departments there have great ethics??



First...keep in mind that Kansas has been caught committing NCAA violations more times than just about any other D-I institution, but unlike every other NCAA institution....
when Kansas gets caught, they never really get penalized. All they ever get is probation. The NCAA has, over the years, been incredibly soft when penalizing their beloved pillar-of-a-program in Lawrence, KS.

Well, currently Kansas is ON PROBATION for their major 2006 violations which included giving money to Darnell Jackson and JR Giddens (on the Moon Bar Brawl fame!) as well as many, many other serious offenses that would have resulted in most mid-major programs being shut down.
.....but that sure doesn't seem to lead the Kansas people to watching their players very closely. In fact, it is total anarchy there with the inmates obvi0usly running the asylum.

As we have seen recently Kansas players are rioting and brawling all over campus multiple times with the basketballers and footballers punching each other out, throwing each other down stairwells, sending each other to hospitals, and causing arrests and injuries.

This has been documented thoroughly...

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=13160

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=13172

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=13212





Police are still said to be investigating all the riots at Kansas, after telling everyone for a couple weeks that no crime occurred, nobody was injured, and nobody filed any complaints.....doing their best KGB-type imitation of hiding the truth, stonewalling the media, all to protect the VIP's and the precious Top 20 rankings!!
But I am sure those "investigations" will fade and die within a few more days, because they really don't want to actually penalize anyone.



In fact, the Kansas people and Bill Self have stated clearly that NOBODY has been punished in any way for all these brawls, campus riots, and thuggish behavior....and nobody had even gotten any penalties for the other issues going back years.....as has been well documented.
(example- Markieff Morris got a grand total of a 30-day probation for getting drunk in his dorm room then shooting people out the window with a pellet gun.
He then got no further discipline at all from the team, so in effect a serious crime resulted in Morris being treated like a celebrity and given no punishment.)

Keep in mind, many of the players have had other serious and criminal issues...

Sherron Collins was sued for sexual harrassment, and Markeiff Morris was arrested and found guilty of shooting people with a pellet gun out of his dorm room window while boozing it up in there at the (under-)age of 18! Players have been shown to have had their grades altered (that resulted in Memphis getting hammered, but you don't think it'll ever happen at Kansas, do you??) and there have been other arrests kept under wraps...

Anyway...practically the next day after Bill Self said he was really serious about the players' behavior (yeah...rrrright!) then another player is out drinking and driving and getting arrested at 3AM.

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=13225





Now we have even more stuff coming out.......

Markieff Morris...already the star of two of these headline incidents (the pellet gun shooting and the campus brawls) has a 1:14AM accident while driving a car that the police report states is owned by ex-Kansas NBA player Scot Pollard.

Quickly, Pollard claims he sold the car to someone else on the team, another of the brawlers, the guy with the dislocated thumb, Tyshawn Thomas.

But, Pollard leaves a whole lot of gaps in his story...



I could list all the gaps, but when Pollard tried to give his spin on his own web site....some guy responds with some pretty hard hitting questions and responses...in the reader response section.



So....just in case that response that blows holes in Pollard's story gets taken off the site, I'll just cite it here.....



Here are Pollard's comments which have been edited and changed from the original...as you note the guy making the response quotes something Pollard seems to have now removed:

http://planetpollard.com/wordpress/?p=43



and here is the reader's reponse:

http://planetpollard.com/wordpress/?p=43#comment-17



From "Larumby"



"There is a form that you can fill out under Kansas law that ensures that once you sell a vehicle you are immediately taken ‘off the title’. Did you fill out this form? If so, can you post a copy of it?
If not, whey didnt you fill it out? You indicate that the compliance department was involved with the transaction, shouldnt they have made sure that form was filled out? Here is what the Kansas Department of Revenue (Motor Vehicles) provides in this instance: “To have your name removed as vehicle owner from the vehicle record after the title has been assigned and delivered to the new owner, a Seller’s Notification of Sale, form TR-216 may be completed and submitted to the Titles and Registrations Bureau along with the required fee listed on the current form. ”
So, did you complete a TR-216? If not, why didnt the compliance department at Kansas require you to do one? That would seem like an obvious step for them to take. Surely if the KU Athletic Department would know this.
If you did complete a TR-216, why was there a supposed ‘boring’ mixup at the scene of the crash? You did remove your registration papers from the vehicle before handing it over to the Kansas player, didnt you? If not, why would you leave YOUR registration papers in the vehicle? If so, why would anyone think it was your car? By ‘anyone’, I mean any policeman investigating a crash at 1:17 a.m. in the morning on Tennnessee Street involving a Kansas basketball player with a 16 year old female passenger.
Kansas law also requires buyers of used cars to have the vehicle fully registered within 30 days of the sale. The state official website provides as follows: “Application must be made within 30 days from date of purchase.” You mentioned a sale in late July or early August to a Kansas basketball player. Since the accident happened on September 13, that is more than a month after you claim to have sold the car. I know you are not going to contend that August 13 would be “early August”. August has 31 days in it. August 13 would be considered middle August since it is almost 2 weeks into the month.
Do you have a cancelled check or bank deposit statements that you can upload to prove that a sale of the vehicle occurred when you claim it occurred?
If you did go through the compliance department, why didnt they check with Tyshawn Taylor to make sure that there was follow-through with registration?
As a former Kansas basketball player, a booster of Kansas basketball, why would you sell it to a current player? I see that you are contending that full market value was paid, and that, in fact, Tyshawn Taylor complained about the price. If that is true, why wouldn’t Taylor have bought from someone else? Also, why wouldn’t Taylor buy from someone who wasnt a booster? It seems like a lot of extra red tape, and that is something most teenagers like to avoid.
Do you think you have injected yourself too much into recent Kansas basketball news? What do you think about Morris having a 16 year old female in his car on a Sunday morning after 1:00 a.m.? I have no idea what was going on, but Kansas has some pretty strict laws about that. Let’s talk for a few minutes about Kansas statutory rape laws.
Kansas statutory rape laws address a lesser crime called “indecent liberties with a child.” In this case, if you engage in sexual touching with a minor between the ages of 14 and 16, you are committing a crime. This crime is a felony. Any adult who has sexual intercourse with a person between the ages of 14 and 16 years old is committing the crime of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. An adult is anyone over the age of 16, according to Kansas statutory rape laws. This crime is also a felony. In Kansas, statutory rape laws also include a section on sodomy. If you engage in sodomy with a minor between the ages of 14 and 16, you are committing a felony.
Now, there is no evidence that anything happened other than Morris was in a vehicle after 1:00 a.m. in the morning with a girl who was only 16 years old. There was another girl there who was over 18, so who knows what happened. But should Kansas players put themselves in positions like that? I doubt that Morris was going to early Mass."





I guess you can believe what you want....but it is hard to deny there appears to be complete chaos and lawlessness down there in Lawrence, Kansas.

God forbid that Lawrence, Kansas should have the kind of media coverage that Peoria has, where these issues dominate the headlines for months, and media people call publicly for the heads of those involved and label the program a "renegade program", saying the coach sould be ousted!



And this spin and coverup of what appears to be an NCAA inappropriate benefits issue looks like a desperate attempt to keep the NCAA from revoking Kansas' probation and nailing them with even more.......probation, which is all they ever seem to get despite their serious cheating and violations.

Anyway....the whole team should be booted for their riotous, hoodlum behavior, and the program should be cleaned up with kids that can go a month at a time without being arrested or getting drunk.
The Kansas fans deserve as much even though most Jayhawk fans no more want that than the IU fans wanted to boot Kelvin Sampson for totally ruining the Hoosier program with his recruits and his cheating.
Sadly, even though Kansas fans are good fans, they obviously place winning, hanging banners, landing 5-Star recruits, and being ranked #1 way, way ahead of actually having a clean program.
But it is starting to come back to haunt them....and we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg....
What headline will we see tomorrow???