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https://buffalonews.com/2020/04/21/ub-buffalo-mens-basketball-ncaa-violations-assistant-coach-forgery-jim-whitesell-mark-alnutt/

Shocking that you'd take yet another shot him.

It absolutely is your opinion. Yes, "it" happened, but your statement puts it in terms that JW was aware of it, or part of it. For all we know, HJ went rogue and wanted to try to impress his new boss and do great legwork to get Mballa cleared, which included gross lying and falsifying. Maybe they were all in on it. Who really knows? No one here, but your condescending nature towards JW (and numerous others) is always at the forefront.

No, I think I read somewhere above that you can still eat mac n cheese.

Meh, I think it reads this way sometimes, but I don’t think that is ever how it is intended. I also don’t think he reports minor infractions to Compliance as often as some seem to believe.

He was a decent guy for sure, he grinded hard and brought in a majority of that class + Chanse. I have said many times that I don't know the exact specifics of what went down too, but i caught wind of it last year when many chalked it up as just a personal situation. To your surprise, I'd prefer all of this ends here and no one else knew anything. I just personally don't think that's true. Regardless if future punishments are handed out (which i pray there isn't), I think it'll be hard for some of us to believe he didn't get authorization to try and do this.

Here’s yet another article... https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/29078661/buffalo-hit-probation-forged-documents My 2 cents into the fray...we all knew something was up when Jenkins was on leave then eventually fired. This is not what I want for our program. It’s definitely a black eye. Did it turn out to be the most serious violation, no. But it was a violation nonetheless. Our penalties aren’t so bad when you break them down. There was no loss of scholarship which is the biggest thing. Now onto the bigger issue, the claim that Jenkins’s action was authorized by someone higher up. This is disturbing. Yes, the investigation yielded nothing to implicate Whitesell, his staff or anyone else higher up. However when you’re a veteran head coach having just taken over a program and hired this guy and this happens...it’s bad business. I gotta believe that only Jenkins was involved, as the investigation yielded no further evidence. We did self report. But we gotta clean this up. I would hope and expect that a coach have more control over things than this. And yes I know this wasn’t a death penalty situation. We will be under the watchful eye now with our probation. So we can’t afford anymore infractions. BTW the forged documentation was never submitted as part of Mballa’s waiver request. And in the end played no part in him getting clearance. So what Jenkins did was plain stupid and apparently wasn’t even needed.

HJ seemed like a decent guy in the brief time that he was here. We have no idea what truly went down and likely never will know the details. Regardless, the investigation has gone on and completed with HJ being the only one implicated. For that reason, I stand behind the current staff and will believe that they were not part of whatever happened. It's kind of crazy that two young guys in the WNY bball area both left town quickly in a month's time this past season. Belein was at NU and gone just as quick as he came, same with HJ.

The claim was that he was pushed out of the program by the staff and made sure that he wouldn’t feel welcomed back (harassed and abused you might say) to ensure they could give his scholarship to a more worthy player. So they needed evidence that his leaving TT wasn’t simply a typical transfer if he wanted to get a waiver.

Then you wonder why BB does what he does, whether you agree with it or not, it's to help prevent this type of "stuff". Is commenting on twitter equivalent to this gross abuse? No, but it all can add up, especially when now there is a reason to keep a closer eye on the UB program.