Memphis Loses 38 Win Season

August 20th, 2009 by Andrew Wamboldt

The Memphis Tigers were stripped of their 38 win season for using an ineligible player. The ineligible player is expected to be Derrick Rose.

The NCAA stripped Memphis of all its wins from 2007-08 Thursday, saying the Tigers used an ineligible player who is believed to be NBA star Derrick Rose.

The university isn’t accepting the punishment, not yet.

This all revolved around the Derrick Rose SAT scandal.

The player was accused of having another person take his SAT exam in Detroit so he would be eligible as a freshman after failing the ACT three times in Chicago.

It seems a little fishy for someone from Chicago to take his SAT in Detroit. If they did the test in Chicago, then they may have been able to get away with it.

What does this entire thing say about Rose? Well in general, it’s not good if someone isn’t smart enough to get a 17 Composite on their ACT.

However, it’s important to remember that Derrick Rose is a basketball player. He did what he had to do to get into the NBA. You don’t have to be smart to be good at basketball.

Rose was forced to do what he did, because of the NBA’s unfair age limit. If the NBA didn’t have the age limit, Rose would have been able to come out of high school in the 2007 draft, and this whole scandal would have been avoided.