OT: Clyde Vaughn, Hugh Freeze, Rick Pitino/Resign,Resign,/Wrist Slap

[upstater]

Ole Miss' Freeze quits; escort-service calls cited

Now there's a difference between being the person who visited the escort service and closing your eyes (to put it generously) to a sordid ring of prostitution meant to entice recruits, but I have to say, I am much more alarmed by the latter.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Undefeated since Adam and Eve.

 

[RichZ]

I think the Freeze deal is totally different. His program is under NCAA investigation and has already made hefty self imposed penalties, but is about to get hammered for the catchall "failure to maintain institutional control". The administration has already said they were going to fire him if he didn't resign. I guess it's an easy way out for Ole Miss to show good faith on an NCAA problem that wasn't going to go away.

 

[tykurez]

I think the Freeze deal is totally different. His program is under NCAA investigation and has already made hefty self imposed penalties, but is about to get hammered for the catchall "failure to maintain institutional control". The administration has already said they were going to fire him if he didn't resign. I guess it's an easy way out for Ole Miss to show good faith on an NCAA problem that wasn't going to go away.

I know nothing about Ole Miss' administration (and it seems like Freeze's has been stinking for a while) - but the fact that Tom Jurich, Rick Pitino and Bobby Petrino are employed at Louisville while Ole Miss was ready to fire this guy is amazing to me.

 

[ktuck911]

It's easier to find excuses not to fire anybody when you're winning as opposed to not winning. this is clearly a proven fact in the world of D1 High Major Cash Cow Money Making College Sports (Football and Basketball)

 

[Horatio]

Again, utilize a certified pimp and prevent these things from happening.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

One enormous difference is Ricky had plausible deniability. Actual deniability would only exist in the minds of those who are dim enough to believe he would allow anything to occur under his watch without his prior approval.

Clyde was caught red handed, so to speak and Freeze had a long list of calls to the escort agency on his phone log. Neither worked in deniability as a potential defense.

 

[upstater]

It's easier to find excuses not to fire anybody when you're winning as opposed to not winning. this is clearly a proven fact in the world of D1 High Major Cash Cow Money Making College Sports (Football and Basketball)

Freeze did some winning at Ole Miss. About as much as you could expect. 4 straight winning seasons before this year's 5-7. In fact, last year's 10-3 was their best record in 45 years!

 

[BUConn10]

Still amazed that we got a POST-SEASON BAN for accurately reporting grades. No real wrong doing, besides reporting actual grades.

Nowadays with these wrist slaps a single post-season ban is effectively the closest things get to death penalty, it's realistically the most harsh penalty given to power schools. Multiple year bans and the real death penalty are so, so rare, yet out of all these disgusting scandals...

WE have been the ones crushed.

 

[Fishy]

In fairness to Pitino, unlike the other two, he didn't visit the prostitutes himself.

He merely looked the other way while a prostitution ring recruited players for him.

Besides, at 20 seconds per at-bat, he'd never get his money's worth.

 

[UConnfan8]

I think the Freeze deal is totally different. His program is under NCAA investigation and has already made hefty self imposed penalties, but is about to get hammered for the catchall "failure to maintain institutional control". The administration has already said they were going to fire him if he didn't resign. I guess it's an easy way out for Ole Miss to show good faith on an NCAA problem that wasn't going to go away.

Totally different, as in totally less severe that what Louisville did..

 

[intlzncster]

Again, utilize a certified pimp and prevent these things from happening.

It's like buying a car. CPO. Certified Pre Owned.

 

[Horatio]

It's like buying a car. CPO. Certified Pre Owned.

..... with no TMZ interviews or book deals.

 

[StoweD210]

Still amazed that we got a POST-SEASON BAN for accurately reporting grades. No real wrong doing, besides reporting actual grades.

Nowadays with these wrist slaps a single post-season ban is effectively the closest things get to death penalty, it's realistically the most harsh penalty given to power schools. Multiple year bans and the real death penalty are so, so rare, yet out of all these disgusting scandals...

WE have been the ones crushed.

One often overlooked part of the post-season ban was that it our second punishment for the same offense. We had the scholarship reduction for not meeting APR standards and then the NCAA decided to create a retroactive penalty, tailored in such a way that it really only affected UConn.

 

[David 76]

We were sentenced twice for one infraction, one retroactively, yet OJ walks free!!

 

[Edward Sargent]

Ole Miss' Freeze quits; escort-service calls cited

Now there's a difference between being the person who visited the escort service and closing your eyes (to put it generously) to a sordid ring of prostitution meant to entice recruits, but I have to say, I am much more alarmed by the latter.

5 and 7 last year had more to with firing than the calls to an escort service I do believe

 

[UConnNick]

One often overlooked part of the post-season ban was that it our second punishment for the same offense. We had the scholarship reduction for not meeting APR standards and then the NCAA decided to create a retroactive penalty, tailored in such a way that it really only affected UConn.

All thanks to the continuing vendetta against his former employer conducted by Mark "The Antichrist" Emmert.