Seriously?

First of all, the video supplied by The Big Lead is weirdly edited to begin with, but assuming it’s actual real time game footage, it is clearly obvious that Poythress was the player fouled on a reach in. The ball gets to Noel, but he is never touched before the whistle stops play. You don’t see any ref in the video, but one of them had to have told Noel he was shooting. There’s no reason a kid in a big game on national television would try to outsmart three refs and all the sideline officials. Noel wouldn’t have lined up to shoot unless a ref told him he was the shooter. As with most officiating crews, a second ref, I’m sure, realized the error and corrected the shooter to Poythress. Believe it or not, this kind of thing happens in the fast-paced game of basketball. Shocking, I know!

The difference from a 50% to a 60% FT shooter is marginal. To think Cal would risk any sort of punitive action for something like this is completely laughable. But, I’m sure it’s right up the alley of you and your fellow conspiracy theorists out there. Coach Cal has better things to do like recruit androids from underneath Disney World. For real.

Things like this are thought up and worked out in practice. The switch went off very slick and smoothly. These guys wouldn’t have risked suspension and other punishment for getting caught doing this on their own. Calipari who has been know to leave two institutions with heavy NCAA sanctions after he left for illegal things done on his watch by his players.

Cal is a known cheater. This is such a nothing game made it perfect to slip the cheat in to test the waters. He got caught. If he tries it again fans will be following closely and he’ll get popped,

Gotta give him credit. . .he’s a good cheater . . .but only for so long. When he is on the verge of getting popped he leaves for another school. If someone cheats and the school is placed on probation and loses post season eligibility, the coach of the team should receive the same penalty. He should be made to sit our the number of games the team loses or maybe he can’t coach a new team in the post season. Something needs to be done for these coaches who cheat and get aways scott free.