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You may remember Dan Owens from such episodes as complaining about UK recruits not coming to the Derby Classic, and critiquing the finer points of Michael Jordan’s ability to speak ‘The King’s English.’ Well, he seems to have come around, sort of, and issued an apology to UK President Lee Todd, AD Mitch Barnhart and the basketball staff for the e-mail he sent lodging his complaints about the lack of Kentucky signees participating in the event. In case you forgot about the initial e-mail, Beisner sufficiently outlined the major points way back in March. Today, Owens wrote an op-ed for the Herald-Leader, offering his apology and revisiting the issue in a slightly more reasonable manner.
He said some things that one can agree with, like that the NCAA limiting kids to two all-star games is ridiculous:
I also firmly believe the NCAA has no jurisdiction to legislate how a high school senior spends extracurricular time. But for this pointless rule, there would have been no issue regarding the participation by the UK recruits in the classic.
Because, you know, all that stuff trumps exposure to Times Square, Madison Square Garden, whatever activity the Jordan All-Stars take part in that’s roughly five million times more fun than visiting a bat factory, and the greatest city in the world.
Regardless of all that, Owens seems to want to make nice with Big Blue Nation, even though someone more cynical than myself would probably say that it’s just because the Classic is a couple of weeks away and needs the ticket sales from UK fans. Not me, but someone more cynical than me. I would say that he decided he went about things the wrong way initially and now, realizing the error of his ways, has asked for forgiveness from the powers that be. And that the Classic is a couple of weeks away and needs the ticket sales from UK fans. I’m quite understanding, you see.
[Owens - No Disrespect for UK, just passion for the Classic]
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April 11th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Shut up Owens…just shut the hell up.
April 11th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
It’s called C.Y.A.
April 11th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
UK fans should boycott this event. I used to go every year and was considering it this year despite having no UK players in it. I’ll come back when you grow up Owens.
April 11th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Great news for #BaylorNation: Freshman sensation Perry Jones III announced Monday he WILL RETURN to #Baylor for sophomore year. #BaylorMBB.
Uh oh….wonder how this affects Knight and Jones….
April 11th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
The NCAA might limit the amount of times these kids can play in all star games so that other players maybe lower ranked get a shot a few events they wouldnt have a shot at if the top kids can play in whatever events they want. Think about it if the UK players were playing in the Derby game that would be 4 spots for players that don’t get as much exposure taken away.
April 11th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Feck off you fecking gobsheen!
April 11th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Who really goes to HS Allstar games anyway? Really, you have nothing better to do than that? 85% percent of the guys attending this game have never had a girlfriend. If you attend and have had a girlfriend then you are one of the 15% ok so no nerd fighting please.
April 11th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
I come in peace. Rumor going around Louisville that Daylen Hall has had his scholarship revoked. It appears he tackled a security guard while on spring break. Have not seen anyone blogger on here mention it. Here is the video. Happens areound the 1:40 mark.
April 11th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Oops!!! Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3bEavNcHYw
April 11th, 2011 at 6:05 pm
The Derby Festival Classic can suck my nads. We have bigger fish to fry.
April 11th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
the jordan classic is in Charlotte this year.
April 11th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
The NCAA is an out of control organization. Ridiculous rules abound.
Time to move on to a form of governance that deals strictly with the larger institutions and the issues that they face.
Anything that is different by a factor of four or more is just not the same thing. It is way past time to stop trying to apply the same governance to large and small athletic programs. They are just not the same thing.
April 11th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Owens is a douche and a moron (“King’s English”). He can take his game and stick it.
April 11th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
test
April 11th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
So does this mean no apology to MJ.
April 12th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Owens is a coward. He has to be the biggest whiner since Tom Jurich.
April 12th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
what a douche bad