Kentucky Wildcats 5 for Thursday: Is today "decision day" for Enes Kanter? edition

Your guess is as good as mine.  But seeing that I was a person whose fate was recently in someone elses hands and I had those people drag their feet on making a decision …. well, I can tell you how freaking annoying that is.  My situation lasted about two weeks and this Enes thing has gone on for close to eight months now?  Yea, that has to be annoying for the Kanter’s.

I have to admit that I was kind of confused when Kentucky tried to use the NCAA’s decision on Cameron Newton as “new information” and re-submitted UK’s case to the NCAA.  But I recently had someone explain UK’s case to me and it makes perfect sense … sort of.

See, the NCAA is letting Cameron Newton play because they feel that he did not know that his father was shopping him around for money … so the actions of the father do not impact the son if the son has no knowledge on what the father is doing.  In the Kanter case, I was confused because both sides agreed that Kanter had received $33,000 in excess of what should have been paid.  However since Enes was 16 when these payments were supposedly made, Kentucky is arguing that Enes had no knowledge on how he was being paid and that Enes had no idea that these payments may damage his amateur eligibility.  Hence, he should be allowed to play …. right?

So yesterday, Enes Kanter’s father, Mehmet, made a guarantee that if his son was ruled ineligible this season, he would guarantee that Enes will return to Kentucky next season and play.  There is been tons of speculation on this statement by Mehmet and to be honest, it has been ripped to shreds quicker than my dog destroys a new chew toy.  Since no one has a clue, what is going to happen with Kanter, Kentucky pundits are reading this like tea leaves and are predicting that today is the day that the Kanter decision will be made public. 

A lot of that is being based on the fact that it is the eve of Christmas Eve and I assume that is as good as time as any to make the decision known, but I am not aware of the NCAA’s policy of dropping news and then getting out of town before a holiday.  I know that Kentucky has been prone to drop bad news on a holiday weekend (Jeremy Jarmon) and that there has been a precedent of crazy anti-Kentucky stories hitting the press right around a holiday (Pete Thamel on Eric Bledsoe, Chicago Sun Times on Anthony Davis, TMZ on totally made up crap) but once again … reading tea leaves as far as I am concerned to say that today is the day we learn Enes’s fate.

Larry Vaught seems to think that today may be the day and that Enes will be declared ineligible this season and will stay for the next.  He has a pretty good case for this, I assume, but once again … I honestly don’t think anyone has a clue.  I have said that there were red flags when Kentucky went after DeAndre Daniels to reclassify this summer and again recently so maybe Calipari knows, but he has a pretty good poker face if he does. 

Oh that Boogie!  In case you missed it, DeMarcus is in trouble in Cowtown yet again for making the choke sign when an opponent missed a free throw.  The real crime is that the woeful Kings are the ones that actually choked and blew a late lead to the Warriors and eventually lost in overtime.  Instead of punishing the entire team for blowing a 5 point lead with :19 left, Boogie was fined and benched.

Once again, I look back at last season and how Calipari was handled and the problems they are having containing him in the pros and I have to admit that John Calipari can not only coach his ass off, but he knows how to reign in his big personality players like Boogie.

On another thought … how many times has the choke sign been given and the team giving it has gone on to lose the game.  I am reminded of a Miami Dolphins game years ago when Pete Carroll, then a Jets assistant, flashed the choke signal when Pete Stoyonavich missed a late FG.  The Dolphins came back to win that game, I think on a Stoyonavich FG, and I have hated Pete Carroll ever since.

There is a lot of buzz right now over the news that Ryan Mossakowski is going to play baseball this spring.  I really don’t think this means anything as to his QB battle with Morgan Newton for next year and the fact that Mossakowski is primarily an outfielder should not affect the throwing motion for football that we have yet to see.  I would assume that WR Bryan Adams will also don the spikes this spring as well, but no confirmation on that.  Yes, Moss may miss some spring practices, but I have no doubt this will affect his football frame of mind.

Keeping on the football mode for just a second, it was announced yesterday that 37 members of the football team finished with a 3.0 GPA or better and Brandon Knight announced he had a 4.0 GPA on the postgame show.  Good news and congrats to all the Kentucky student athletes.

And lest we forget, today is a very special Holiday as December 23 is also Festivus.  So Happy Festivus to all.  I think my favorite part of Festivus is the airing of grievances ….

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