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easttexastrash said:
When I heard that Geno contacted her I was surprised. I can't say that I am surprised that a complaint was filed, although it seems like a bunch of silliness.
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Yes it was probably some putz who is tired of Geno and UCONN winning National Championships!
 
Icebear said:
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5) the NCAA has probably just shot themselves in the foot at getting out of season coverage for their premier women's athletic program. Why would any coach run the risk of ever giving any young person encouragement ever again.
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That is what really sticks in my craw. This world is wayyyyy too focused on bureaucratic rules and blind too plain common sense. And who ultimately suffers? Everybody who believes that it should be a simple matter to brighten our fellows' day. That doing the human thing shouldn't be discouraged.
 
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Beemer said:
Why is it that only UConn's dominance is considered bad for the game? Nobody whined when Old Dominion, Louisiana Tech & Tennessee ruled the game that I can recall. Granted Geno can be very obnoxious at times so it is easy for people to dislike him and his teams. Nonetheless UConn has raised the bar for women's college basketball excellence just like ODU, LA Tech and Tenn did in their time. Everyone should be striving to knock UConn off, not complaining about it.
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Probably because there was no such thing as the internet, social media, 5000 cable channels with talking heads 24/7, televised WCBB, etc. The world is a lot different today than it was 30 years ago and it's much easier to hate a team that is successful and gets a disproportionate amount of the attention compared to whatever your local or favorite team happens to be.
 
Thanks to Jeff Jacobs, and congratulations to the Courant, for this superb article. Wow. Nobody does it better!
 
Icebear said:
I have no intention of letting this die off. I am organizing a campaign to make it go viral via Facebook. The NCAA deserves to be publicly shamed over this.
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Go get 'em ice.

I am hoping that, come April, when Geno accepts the Championship trophy from some
NCAA poobah, and Holly Rowe sticks a microphone in Geno's face asking for a comment,
I am hoping that, in front of said poobah and a national television audience, Geno salts
his remarks with some appropriate wisecrack about this "affair".

. . . but he probably won't.
 
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The thing that fascinates me is that this wasn't a violation. It seems like when UConn is involved, the NCAA just makes up offenses on the fly. That organization is an abomination.
 
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CL82 said:
The thing that fascinates me is that this wasn't a violation. It seems like when UConn is involved, the NCAA just makes up offenses on the fly. That organization is an abomination.
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Exactly. The NCAA changed the interpretation of the rule to suit their agenda.
 
I wonder how many schools actually reported the violation to the NCAA. Some adults seriously need to get hobbies.:rolleyes:
 
CL82 said:
The thing that fascinates me is that this wasn't a violation. It seems like when UConn is involved, the NCAA just makes up offenses on the fly. That organization is an abomination.
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I prefer to call them what they really are: bullies. Bet this wouldn't be a violation anywhere else. It feels a lot like getting stopped by the local sheriff in some backwoods South Carolina town and the cop sees you have a Connecticut driver's license and knows it's his chance to screw with a Yankee ("well, well, well loooooky what we have here Cletus!") and do what he wants because there's nothing you can or will do about it. And Muffet says Geno doesn't have class...
 
From what I understand Geno did not contact Davis, so I'm not sure how he broke the rule as it is written. All he did was call into the Little League facility being used by ESPN. He was probably just going to record a message/do an interview about Davis, but it just so happened that Davis was in the building so TV guys being TV guys probably thought hey let's just connect the young lady with the coach she admires because that's a storyline that makes for good TV. Perhaps the NCAA backtracks at some point caving under the bad publicity and issues a waiver to UConn granting them an exception to "the rule."
 
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easttexastrash said:
When I heard that Geno contacted her I was surprised.
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Get the story right, will you? Geno didn't contact her - the Philadelphia 76ers did. Their intentions were the best, I'm sure, but they got their pal Geno into this brouhaha.

In Russian there is no single word for "disservice" - instead they use the idiom "a bear's favor," from a story by the Russian classic fabulist, Krylov. Think Aesop or La Fontaine.

It seems a certain Russian hunter's best friend was a bear he met in the woods. They were inseparable buddies. One morning the bear happened to wake up before the hunter and noticed a fly was walking on his pal's forehead. Rather than waking up his sleeping friend, the bear picked up a 10 kilo rock and brought it down square on the guy's forehead with all the force he could muster.

I wonder if the bear was wearing a Philadelphia tee shirt?
 
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baggerbob said:
The NCAA president owes the young girl an apology, and should do it on national TV.
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Please do not hold your breath for that. Still love Shabazz for telling him off on national TV right to his face. Of course I suspect that's largely why this is suddenly a violation, but that moment was worth every penny.
 
HoopsFan21 said:
Please do not hold your breath for that. Still love Shabazz for telling him off on national TV right to his face. Of course I suspect that's largely why this is suddenly a violation, but that moment was worth every penny.
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I'm not an NCAA sympathizer, but I think the reason this is suddenly a violation is because a school filed a complaint, not because the NCAA was looking for something to nail UCONN with. The NCAA wasn't going to do anything without being put in a position of having to respond to a complaint. And they're still probably not going to do anything.
 
Let's flood the NCAA and let them know how inane we consider their action.[/QUOTE]


Ice, I'm ready to go, but what's the link for the Compliance Office. I just looked on line. Anybody?
 
Is it a stretch to think that Mark Emmert himself may have nudged the NCAA ruling on UConn?

He was once the UConn Chancellor and he mismanaged massive campus constuction before leaving in a getaway car for LSU. Sorry, I don't do links but an article in USA Today, April 3, entitled "Digging into the past of NCAA President" is a good source to access to learn of his past record of incompetence and malfeasance. Check it out. Or others.
 
semper said:
Let's flood the NCAA and let them know how inane we consider their action.
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Ice, I'm ready to go, but what's the link for the Compliance Office. I just looked on line. Anybody?[/QUOTE]

I don't think they're big on soliciting feedback
 
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j66kicker said:
I'm not an NCAA sympathizer, but I think the reason this is suddenly a violation is because a school filed a complaint, not because the NCAA was looking for something to nail UCONN with. The NCAA wasn't going to do anything without being put in a position of having to respond to a complaint. And they're still probably not going to do anything.
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Completely agree with this, but you would think someone in the compliance office at the NCAA would have the sense of self-preservation, if not common sense and decency to look at this and say 'This is ridiculously trivial and a waste of our time. Case dismissed.' Instead said compliance office tied themselves in knots trying to come up with a sound reason to classify this as a 'secondary violation' falling back on 'while she is young and this was completely unrelated to recruiting, she is not a typical 13 year old and therefore we are invoking rule ____' to be able to classify this as a violation.' That took some hard work and a equally petty attitude toward the situation as the original complaint displayed.
 
UcMiami said:
Completely agree with this, but you would think someone in the compliance office at the NCAA would have the sense of self-preservation, if not common sense and decency to look at this and say 'This is ridiculously trivial and a waste of our time. Case dismissed.' Instead said compliance office tied themselves in knots trying to come up with a sound reason to classify this as a 'secondary violation' falling back on 'while she is young and this was completely unrelated to recruiting, she is not a typical 13 year old and therefore we are invoking rule ____' to be able to classify this as a violation.' That took some hard work and a equally petty attitude toward the situation as the original complaint displayed.
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That's kind of my point. If UConn was UNC, it is my belief that the NCAA would have bent over backwards to find some loophole where they could justify why it wasn't a violation ergo they have it out for UConn. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but if it were ANY OTHER SCHOOL I feel like they would issue a statement saying the complainant incorrectly interpreted the rule and that the NCAA has determined no violations occurred and case closed.
 
jsloanjr said:
Who are they going to kick around when Geno retires in 2 years after winning his 11th NC game and rides off in the CT sunset?.....
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NOBODY rides off into a Ct. sunset. Hollywood would never go for it.
 
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pap49cba said:
Except John A. reported a high-level source told him it wasn't ND, Duke or MD.
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Thank goodness........ the scores have been bad enough in the series the past 7 years..... I definitely didnt want to see a 127-38 beatdown this December :(
 
UcMiami said:
Completely agree with this, but you would think someone in the compliance office at the NCAA would have the sense of self-preservation, if not common sense and decency to look at this and say 'This is ridiculously trivial and a waste of our time. Case dismissed.' Instead said compliance office tied themselves in knots trying to come up with a sound reason to classify this as a 'secondary violation' falling back on 'while she is young and this was completely unrelated to recruiting, she is not a typical 13 year old and therefore we are invoking rule ____' to be able to classify this as a violation.' That took some hard work and a equally petty attitude toward the situation as the original complaint displayed.
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I can see how the NCAA could, in good faith, interpret Mo'ne to be a "prospective student athlete", since she has basically already offered a verbal to UCONN. And I guess how I can see where they might rule a secondary violation with no consequences, just to send a message to the world like, "OK, let's not push it - we might be getting a little borderline here."

What I CAN'T see is how they can seriously spend any time on this trivia while they have repeatedly been made aware that big-time revenue-producing UNC student athletes got passing grades in non-existent African Studies classes, a high-profile UNC hoop alum says publicly that his head coach was fully aware and complicit, and they do NOTHING.

Seriously?!?!?!?!
 
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