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Message: [QUOTE="nomar, post: 4348112, member: 651"] You're making arguments for why the penalty was unfair, and everybody agrees it was horse crap. I keep saying I agree with you and you keep arguing with me nonetheless. E.g.: [I]But, regarding your point as restated, I will still respectfully disagree. Connecticut was operating within establish standards and was willing to except the establish penalty of a loss of scholarship. Expecting the university to foresee that the NCAA would change the rules, change the penalties, apply those changes retroactively to a period that had already been punished, without the benefit of current data is probably a bridge too far, don’t you think?[/I] Yes, I do, and I thought I made that abundantly clear. My point: If you finish in the bottom 5% of some academic metric, you might want to ask why that happened, and accept that perhaps you should have done something differently, such as tracking your players' GPAs. Irrespective of whether you thought you were going to get sanctioned for it. That doesn't mean the NCAA didn't royally screw us. [/QUOTE]