Tuesday, January 24, 2006
PATRIOTLEAGUEHOOPS.COM PRESENTS: GUEST BLOGGER JOE KNIGHT
With all the controversy surrounding the Joe Knight scandal, we (that's the royal we, by the way) at PATRIOTLEAGUEHOOPS.COM thought it would be worthwhile to go directly to the source. At the same time, the PATRIOTLEAGUEHOOPS.COM executive board (Matt B) is lazy and always looking for any way to avoid writing. Luckily, Mr. Knight agreed to writing a guest opinion piece on his situation.
LEHIGH SCREWED ME, BY JOE KNIGHT
Good morning, friends. Joe Knight here. You may have heard a lot of things about my unfortunate situation. Some are true, many are not. That's why I've asked my close personal friend Matt B, who you will remember was quite concerned about my absence from the court, to allow me to speak out for myself.
The simple truth is that the Lehigh Athletics department screwed me like Chuang Chuang on Lin Hui. Okay, so I didn't do so well at High Point. So what. If you'd have seen the classes I was taking there, you wouldn't have gone to them either. And the swimming at Oak Hollow Lake is too good in the warm months to be going to summer school.
So I transfered to Tarrant Community College, named one of the 50 best community colleges in Texas. And it was great, I got a 3.0 and made Dean's List. Sure, it was a community college, and the deans' list is written on the back of an envelope, but I was doing good. Brett Reed calls me and tells me they have a spot for me at Lehigh. After being told they offer majors beyond Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science, I say, “Lehigh has a tremendous academic reputation and outstanding athletics programs.” I'm in.
They tell me there's no problem with my academics, and I start practicing with the squad and it's awesome. I hit a 30 footer to beat American in my first Patriot League game and I'm feeling good. I'm golden.
Then something gets screwed up and all of a sudden I can't play, and everything I've done in the last two years apparently didn't happen now. I guess the NCAA has some kind of time machine or something, where they took away all my points. I don't get it.
Dr. Joe and Taryn, what gives? I sure didn't mess this up. It isn't my job to read NCAA bylaws. It's not even my job to READ. I shoot, the basketball goes in the hoop, and then you give me a degree. Everything else is your responsibility. If you're the DIRECTOR OF COMPLIANCE and you haven't DIRECTED COMPLIANCE, then what have you been doing? All Joe Knight wants to do is play. And Lehigh took that away. I'm going to play in like, 15 official games for Lehigh, and even that took three years.
Maybe I'll just go to the NBDL.
Joe Knight is a Senior at Lehigh University. His views are completely fabricated and if you actually took this seriously you are dumb and not allowed to visit this website any longer. @ 10:25 AM
With all the controversy surrounding the Joe Knight scandal, we (that's the royal we, by the way) at PATRIOTLEAGUEHOOPS.COM thought it would be worthwhile to go directly to the source. At the same time, the PATRIOTLEAGUEHOOPS.COM executive board (Matt B) is lazy and always looking for any way to avoid writing. Luckily, Mr. Knight agreed to writing a guest opinion piece on his situation.
LEHIGH SCREWED ME, BY JOE KNIGHT
Good morning, friends. Joe Knight here. You may have heard a lot of things about my unfortunate situation. Some are true, many are not. That's why I've asked my close personal friend Matt B, who you will remember was quite concerned about my absence from the court, to allow me to speak out for myself.The simple truth is that the Lehigh Athletics department screwed me like Chuang Chuang on Lin Hui. Okay, so I didn't do so well at High Point. So what. If you'd have seen the classes I was taking there, you wouldn't have gone to them either. And the swimming at Oak Hollow Lake is too good in the warm months to be going to summer school.
So I transfered to Tarrant Community College, named one of the 50 best community colleges in Texas. And it was great, I got a 3.0 and made Dean's List. Sure, it was a community college, and the deans' list is written on the back of an envelope, but I was doing good. Brett Reed calls me and tells me they have a spot for me at Lehigh. After being told they offer majors beyond Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science, I say, “Lehigh has a tremendous academic reputation and outstanding athletics programs.” I'm in.
They tell me there's no problem with my academics, and I start practicing with the squad and it's awesome. I hit a 30 footer to beat American in my first Patriot League game and I'm feeling good. I'm golden.
Then something gets screwed up and all of a sudden I can't play, and everything I've done in the last two years apparently didn't happen now. I guess the NCAA has some kind of time machine or something, where they took away all my points. I don't get it.
Dr. Joe and Taryn, what gives? I sure didn't mess this up. It isn't my job to read NCAA bylaws. It's not even my job to READ. I shoot, the basketball goes in the hoop, and then you give me a degree. Everything else is your responsibility. If you're the DIRECTOR OF COMPLIANCE and you haven't DIRECTED COMPLIANCE, then what have you been doing? All Joe Knight wants to do is play. And Lehigh took that away. I'm going to play in like, 15 official games for Lehigh, and even that took three years.
Maybe I'll just go to the NBDL.
Joe Knight is a Senior at Lehigh University. His views are completely fabricated and if you actually took this seriously you are dumb and not allowed to visit this website any longer. @ 10:25 AM
