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Interesting article about how the schools implicated in the pay for play scandal are thumbing their noses at the NCAA and not doing anything about the cheating. Says the NCAA is determined to hammer these schools because their membership is calling for it.
There are clear signs that NCAA Enforcement is aggressively targeting head coaches and going for major penalties — in accordance with the membership’s wishes. The Condoleezza Rice-led Commission on College Basketball in its 2018 report called for “stronger penalties, including longer postseason bans, loss of all postseason revenue sharing, up to a lifetime ban, head coach restrictions that span more than one season and full-year recruiting restrictions.”
Kansas will be a fascinating test case. NCAA Enforcement has rarely been as well-armed as it was in crafting the Jayhawks’ NOA, thanks to federal wiretaps, bank records, testimony under oath and the association’s own investigative work. On the opposite side stands a basketball blueblood that already has very publicly signaled its willingness to dispute many of the allegations it faces, a strategy that famously backfired for USC football more than a decade ago.
“I’m more confident that the NCAA will take some strong measures, maybe more than most people,” said a veteran head coach. “I get the cynicism outside our profession but the NCAA has gone on record stating that they’re going to follow through with evidence that they find that’s worthy of some type of judgement.”
Two years later, fallout from hoops scandal still unclear
Two years later, other than the ouster of Louisville’s Rick Pitino, there’s been little tangible fallout on the college basketball landscape. Will that change anytime soon? Will the NCAA ever actually punish anybody?sports.yahoo.com
Because we’ve been used as an exampleI posted in non-key tweets that "the dude of WV" said UConn would pay for Self's sins. He's a moron, but I'm not sure what he was even insinuating.
Are you referring to Syracuse's decade long triple scandal of drugs, illegal payments to players and academic fraud? Because that seems like a pretty bad "indiscretion" to me.Cuse had a marginally bad indiscretion, but not too bad.
Billy $elf really sticking it to the NCAA. Although I hope the program gets hammered, this is still pretty hilarious
I posted in non-key tweets that "the dude of WV" said UConn would pay for Self's sins. He's a moron, but I'm not sure what he was even insinuating.
Hahaha I would have missed that. Why not, right?? He knows he's done.Wearing his Adidas shirt lmaoooo
Wearing his Adidas shirt lmaoooo
Billy $elf really sticking it to the NCAA. Although I hope the program gets hammered, this is still pretty hilarious
Borges is a big fan of all kinds of music. I've seen him make more references to classic rock than hip-hop but he seems to know a lot about all kinds of music.Also found out Dave Borges is a hip-hop head.
Billy $elf really sticking it to the NCAA. Although I hope the program gets hammered, this is still pretty hilarious
First off I’ll believe it when I see it. Still waiting to see Louisville get a real penalty.Interesting article about how the schools implicated in the pay for play scandal are thumbing their noses at the NCAA and not doing anything about the cheating. Says the NCAA is determined to hammer these schools because their membership is calling for it.
There are clear signs that NCAA Enforcement is aggressively targeting head coaches and going for major penalties — in accordance with the membership’s wishes. The Condoleezza Rice-led Commission on College Basketball in its 2018 report called for “stronger penalties, including longer postseason bans, loss of all postseason revenue sharing, up to a lifetime ban, head coach restrictions that span more than one season and full-year recruiting restrictions.”
Kansas will be a fascinating test case. NCAA Enforcement has rarely been as well-armed as it was in crafting the Jayhawks’ NOA, thanks to federal wiretaps, bank records, testimony under oath and the association’s own investigative work. On the opposite side stands a basketball blueblood that already has very publicly signaled its willingness to dispute many of the allegations it faces, a strategy that famously backfired for USC football more than a decade ago.
“I’m more confident that the NCAA will take some strong measures, maybe more than most people,” said a veteran head coach. “I get the cynicism outside our profession but the NCAA has gone on record stating that they’re going to follow through with evidence that they find that’s worthy of some type of judgement.”
Two years later, fallout from hoops scandal still unclear
Two years later, other than the ouster of Louisville’s Rick Pitino, there’s been little tangible fallout on the college basketball landscape. Will that change anytime soon? Will the NCAA ever actually punish anybody?sports.yahoo.com
That was a complete disgrace just because those UNC courses were offered to their general academic population. The NCAA then left it up to UNC to fix its own academic problems. Now they’re signing the #2 recruit while Roy goes aw shucks. How many of their basketball players stayed eligible to play by that? That’sthe Question the NCAA should have answered. Calhoun’s career was basically ended over player’s academic averages and if those players took courses that gave them automatic A’s for papers that they didn’t write, would never have had a problem or caused one for the team. I can’t really let this thing go because of the ultimate conference damage it ultimately caused our program, and the ensuing destruction. I know I need to let this go.Nothing will happen to Kansas just like nothing happened to UNC and just like nothing will ever happen to Duke. Sad, but true.
That was a complete disgrace just because those UNC courses were offered to their general academic population. The NCAA then left it up to UNC to fix its own academic problems. Now they’re signing the #2 recruit while Roy goes aw shucks. How many of their basketball players stayed eligible to play by that? That’sthe Question the NCAA should have answered. Calhoun’s career was basically ended over player’s academic averages and if those players took courses that gave them automatic A’s for papers that they didn’t write, would never have had a problem or caused one for the team. I can’t really let this thing go because of the ultimate conference damage it ultimately caused our program, and the ensuing destruction. I know I need to let this go.
Amen. That class should have been removed and GPA's recalculated. Any games played with an ineligible student athlete are forfeited. Easy answer.How many of their basketball players stayed eligible to play by that? That’s the Question the NCAA should have answered.
That was a complete disgrace just because those UNC courses were offered to their general academic population. The NCAA then left it up to UNC to fix its own academic problems. Now they’re signing the #2 recruit while Roy goes aw shucks. How many of their basketball players stayed eligible to play by that? That’sthe Question the NCAA should have answered. Calhoun’s career was basically ended over player’s academic averages and if those players took courses that gave them automatic A’s for papers that they didn’t write, would never have had a problem or caused one for the team. I can’t really let this thing go because of the ultimate conference damage it ultimately caused our program, and the ensuing destruction. I know I need to let this go.
Not to mention that it was a sham that the classes in question where open to all students. It was statistically impossible that it was just happenstance that the class (roughly 250 total seats if I remember correctly) was 50% filled by students who were on football and basketball scholarships (about 100 total students) whereas the entire undergraduate population of UNC Chapel Hill is about 19,000. Someone was actively steering athletes to that class and ensuring that they got preferential treatment in enrolling in those classes. Of course, why would the NCAA pay attention to facts that any Fresman taking Stats 101 could figure out when Emmert & co. had a very specific agenda to follow.
The classes were not offered to the general student population they were available to the general student population which is different. The students had to stumble on them somehow and enroll before they were filled by the athletes. The athletic department of course knew all about them as the educational advisor involved had her office in the athletic department.There was nothing they could do about it. It's outside of their authority. They push the boundaries of what they can do as it is (boosters are defined way too broadly). It's a voluntary association of the participating schools. They are not handing over the power to direct academic affairs. If anything they will pull back powers the NCAA has today.