If there's one group of fans that I managed to tick off the most in my previous blog for CSTV.com, it had to be Memphis basketball fans.

And while they almost proved me wrong this past April - that is, until Derrick Rose and Chris Douglas-Roberts choked on the free throw line with two minutes left in the national championship game - it was head coach John Calipari, his players and the Memphis faithful who were ultimately heartbroken on that Monday night in San Antonio (I know because I saw their tears and heard their disappointment afterward in the post-game press conference).

But having a national championship slip out of their hands isn't something they should be concerned with at this point.

At least not after seeing the story that FOXSports.com's senior college basketball writer, Jeff Goodman, a friend and colleague of mine, broke Thursday regarding a Memphis booster's phone call to Oseye Gaddy, mother of highly touted recruit Abdul Gaddy.

As Goodman explains, FedEx Express president and CEO David Bronczek made the call to Oseye, one of the company's customer service representatives in Tacoma, Wash., just a few days after Calipari contacted the family.

But what Bronczek, a member of the exclusive 32-member Ambassador's Athletic Foundation, didn't know is that school boosters are not allowed to contact recruits under NCAA regulations.

Of course, there's no denying Bronczek's status as a booster.

After all, Bronczek is a "representative of an institution's athletic interests" and serves as a member on the Tiger Athletic Advisory Board of Directors. Better yet, each member of the Ambassador's Athletic Foundation has donated at least $500,000 to Memphis' basketball program and many have exceeded the $1 million mark.

"He's absolutely a booster, there's no question about it," Johnson told Goodman in discussing Bronczek's role with the program.

According to NCAA rules, a "representative of an institution's athletic interests" is someone who either makes financial contributions to the athletic department or a specific athletic program or promotes the school's athletics through an agency or organization.

And as Rule 13.1.3.5.1 states in the NCAA Division I Manual, "Representatives of an institution's athletics interests are prohibited from making telephonic communications with a prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete's relatives or legal guardians."

So that's where Bronczek went wrong.

Yes, it was only a phone call.

But as we saw with former Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson, a phone call or two can get you in an awful lot of trouble.

That's quite possibly what could come the Tigers way now, whether it is a probation sentence, a loss of scholarships/scholarship money or even worse, a season without Abdul Gaddy.

All that over something that neither Calipari nor Johnson could control. All that over something that Bronczek didn't even know was wrong to do.

But in this day and age where college basketball recruits are so easily lured by gifts and riches - just look at O.J. Mayo for instance - it's not too surprising to see Calipari and Memphis sitting under the NCAA's microscope now.

After all, who could forget the Marcus Camby scandal that Calipari endured at UMass back in 1996 as he saw his star player take the Minutemen to the Final Four, only to have it ruined when the NCAA discovered that Camby accepted $28,000 from a couple of sports agents.

Sure, Bronczek's call isn't quite what Camby did during his junior season, but who's to say that Calipari hasn't turned his eye on other NCAA violations while he's been at Memphis?

Because with the phone call that Bronczek made this summer, more and more doubt will grow about the recruitment process of Derrick Rose, the NBA's top draft pick last month, and Tyreke Evans, one of the nation's top backcourt recruits who committed to the Tigers in April following the 2007-08 college basketball season.

For some reason - I can't tell you why - I have a feeling there's more to this story than what has already transpired.

Still, no one knows for now whether Bronczek's mistake will trigger a further investigation into Calipari's program, but with the NCAA aware of the violation and Gaddy still deciding between Memphis and Arizona, the Tigers can only hope that Bronczek's mistake won't cost them a chance at reaching next year's Final Four in Detroit.

Heck, I wouldn't even consider the NCAA Tournament a guarantee at this point.