Memphis Vacates Prestige: Calipari, Rose Scandal Generates Eternal Shame

More troubling, in the NCAA are scandals. It normally results in coaches providing unlawful benefits that manipulate an appealing superstar to develop and assimilate spotlight with one of the premier programs, it normally correlates to coaches making illegal phone calls to recruit athletes, and it normally involves coaches tempering unjustly to obtain talented prospects. Flirting with athletic stars is one issue, but violating academic rules are deceptions and embarrassment to hunt down and punish universities with traditional pride, discarding memories of magnitude, which was glorifying to the Memphis Tigers the past few seasons. They celebrated. They amassed victories. They energized an entire community. And they were dominant, obviously pounding opponents in Conference USA in lopsided fashions.   But years ago, the program was forlorn and unstable, as a disengaged atmosphere weren’t spirited, until John Calipari instituted a superb program and changed dynamics with his...