NYT on Baylor's Perry Jones
Perry Jones’s father, Perry Jones Jr., is a mountain of a man — about seven inches shorter than his son but much wider. He has a gruff exterior but a sentimental core. As I sat with him and Terri in the living room of their small home in Lancaster, Tex., he told me how they first met on a playground basketball court when they were both in their late teens. He was shooting hoops at one end, and she was playing in a game with friends at the other. He had recently moved to Texas from a small town in Louisiana to find work. "I saw her, and I noticed how beautiful she was, so I went to talk with her," he recalled. "We had these coincidental things in common. Our names rhymed. We were both born on the 18th of a month. We even liked the same basketball team, the Detroit Pistons. Right away I felt like we were meant to be together."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Baylor freshman Perry Jones was declared ineligible by the NCAA on Wednesday after an investigation about whether Jones or his family received preferential treatment or improper benefits from an AAU coach before enrolling in college.
The NCAA’s decision came only hours before the Bears played Oklahoma in their first game at the Big 12 Conference tournament, leaving them without a starter and one of the nation’s top freshmen. The 6-foot-11 Jones averaged 13.9 points and 7.2 rebounds per game for Baylor.
Baylor immediately appealed to have Jones’ eligibility reinstated.
“We are profoundly disappointed in the timing and determination in this matter,” Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw said in a release from the school. “This outcome appears to be inconsistent with other recent, widely discussed NCAA decisions.”
Clearly Perry Jones is too controversial to be drafted inside the top seven picks.
by tads on Mar 10, 2011 12:41 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
In related news, medical researchers at Wayne State University in Detroit have discovered that choosing controversial athletes in one of the first six NBA draft slots is strongly correlated with adverse health outcomes and reduced employment prospects among NBA general managers. The study also found that these risk factors could be mitigated by selecting non-controversial athletes who did not attendthe University of KentuckyBaylor University, or by trading down to the seventh position in the draft.
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