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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Madoff In Memphis

I think we are the victims of an elaborate Ponzi scheme and the take has gotten bigger and nobody is going to jail. John Calipari has made promises to Memphians and he's leavimg town before he makes good on them. While R.C. Johnson was renegotiating his contracts and getting him yearly raises. He should have negotiated better protection for the city''s investment. Instead of the mere $200,000 Kentucky is paying to buy him out of his contract with Memphis. Considering the amount of money involved, the university should be getting a windfall as well.

I have mixed emotions about John Calipari leaving Memphis for the coaching job at Kentucky. It's like when Barack Obama won the presidency. I didn't support him but it was hard to be unhappy about something that everyone around me was celebrating. I'm not that upset about him leaving, I think he was overpaid anyway. He did leave us some good memories though. He gave us ground chuck and we paid for steak.

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