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Harvard and the Ivy League have said they will review the possibility that the Crimson men's basketball program committed recruiting violations. The Ivy League released a short statement Tuesday after an article in The New York Times on Sunday described how Kenny Blakeney, now a Crimson assistant coach, visited two Harvard recruits and played pickup basketball with them during times when contact with recruits was prohibited. One of the recruits said the visit occurred before Blakeney was officially hired on Coach Tommy Amaker's staff at Harvard, but it would still be prohibited because the NCAA would consider him a representative of the university.

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March 5, 2008  06:57 AM ET
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The apocalypse is officially on the way - a potential Ivy League recruiting scandal...

March 5, 2008  07:56 AM ET
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JeezeLouise...Ammaker **** up Harvard too?

Coach Shechefksi must be beaming with the stand up job is former protoges have done

March 5, 2008  09:05 AM ET
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No soup for Tommy

March 5, 2008  10:10 AM ET
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Does he know Coach Sampson?

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March 5, 2008  10:17 AM ET
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Does he know Coach Sampson?

Jabril1217 | 03/05/08, 10:10 AM

I think Ammaker and Sampson text message each other every once in a while..

March 5, 2008  10:49 AM ET
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Haha what kind of violations are they guilty of? Helping them with their SAT?

March 5, 2008  11:51 AM ET
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If I was the Harvard coach I would recruit people from out of prison. I mean it would make things more interesting.

March 5, 2008  12:03 PM ET
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For a moment, I thought it was because they recruited somebody with a 2390 on the new SAT (1590 under the old one).

March 5, 2008  02:41 PM ET
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Is that what he looks like when he drops the duece??? One can only guess....

March 5, 2008  03:40 PM ET
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This is funny. A recruiting scandal at Harvard. Wow!

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March 5, 2008  03:52 PM ET
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Didn't know the Ivy League recruited, or offered sports scholarships

March 5, 2008  04:47 PM ET
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They recruit, but they do not offer scholarships. None of the Ivy's give out athletic scholarships. They probably give them huge financial aid packages, or find some other loop holes to get them in.

March 5, 2008  05:09 PM ET
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Since when did Harvard have to recruit anybody for anything????
Recruiting for a better sports program at Harvard, the school with the largest endowment in the history of the world and they are recruiting basketball players.........unbelieveable!!!!

jake52 NY

March 5, 2008  05:12 PM ET
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Let's go over to Haavard at f up some smaat kids

March 5, 2008  05:27 PM ET
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Wa Wa Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Hey Harvard ever enjoyed a "hurts don'it"?

March 5, 2008  05:43 PM ET
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Now i've officially seen it all.

March 5, 2008  05:52 PM ET
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Just when I'd thought I'd heard it all.

 
March 5, 2008  05:54 PM ET
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There's a formula for how low an Ivy can go academically to 'recruit' an athlete to play there. If you think all the athletes at Ivy League schools are rocket scientists, you're mistaken. Penn dipped below this line in the late 80's and forced a football coach to resign over it. The Ivies usually police themselves.

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