SMU to Face Postseason Ban

[gwhuskyfan]

Per Goodman: SMU has been hit with a postseason ban for this season & Larry Brown suspended for 10 percent of this season’s games, source told ESPN.

 

[aceboon]

that sucks for the seniors

 

[UconnFanNVa]

Wait has anything happened to UNC yet?

 

[BleedHuskyBlu]

I wonder how the UNC investigation is going...

 

[gwhuskyfan]

Also a scholarship reduction:

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN 2m2 minutes ago
SMU will also be hit with nine scholarship losses over the next three years, source told ESPN. Were two under last season.

 

[Candyman]

I can't believe the NCAA would do that to this kids or actually I can and still stunned...if this is true.

 

[Leebo]

They don't appear to have any 2016 commits yet. Guess we can say goodbye to them bringing the AAC some respect for a while.

 

[UconnFanNVa]

They don't appear to have any 2016 commits yet. Guess we can say goodbye to them bringing the AAC some respect for a while.

Didnt Syracuse start landing recruits after being banned? Maybe they'll follow that trend? Glass half full?

 

[CTGoonie]

Really awful timing for this. Precedent says seniors can transfer if facing a ban without sitting out but practice starts this week. The NCAA strikes again.

 

[MexicoHusky]

They don't appear to have any 2016 commits yet. Guess we can say goodbye to them bringing the AAC some respect for a while.

UNC is basically in the same situation. They only have 2 four star recruits. In years past those two recruits would have been 5 star guys!.....So it's tough times for everyone

 

[HuskyFich]

 

[Leebo]

Ah, so if they appeal, it'll delay the process long enough that they'll get to play this year even if it's eventually upheld.

 

[StoweD210]

Wait has anything happened to UNC yet?

That was UNC's penalty.

 

[HuskyFich]

 

[MexicoHusky]

Really!? You can appeal if you are supposed to be good. That's kinda funny.

 

[Leebo]

Really!? You can appeal if you are supposed to be good. That's kinda funny.

I think it's poorly worded. The fact that they're good makes an appeal interesting. Not that it's contingent on it. If they sucked and weren't going to make the tourney anyway, who cares.

 

[donyell34]

Bullish*t Dakota; UNC like the cuse have and will be treated different and with much more deference and respect than SMU. Hear about UNC; no way that's been buried so deep by the media it's somewhere with Jimmy Hoffa.

 

[Pudge]

UNC?

Also a very clever way for the NCAA to address OUR conference griping on not having the qualified schools in March Madness.

 

[mauconnfan]

Tougher for SMU interim coaches than Syracuse. I mean Hopkins will just say "alright get into the 2-3 zone and when you go down the other end shoot if you're open"

 

[mauconnfan]

I wonder how the UNC investigation is going...

LOL, how is the UNC scandal being swept under while this is so similar? Where's the ban on Roy? Such BS

 

[upstater]

They got the same exact punishment that Syracuse did. only Syracuse was doling out $$ and not only messing with eligibility. AND, Syracuse's postseason penalty was a joke.

If it's true that SMU is being hammered for illegally making one player eligible, versus the decade+ of many many many underhanded acts at Syracuse, AND SMU receives a harsher punishment (in terms of postseason play) then this is a perfect example of NCAA favoritism and imbalance.

The only factor otherwise is that Larry Brown is a 3-time offender--so schools should watch out hiring these types.

 

[tcf15]

Wonder how much LB's past transgressions at UCLA and Kansas factored into this.

 

[CallMeBruce]

Wonder how much LB's past transgressions at UCLA and Kansas factored into this.

I can't imagine it helped, but let us not forget that Jim Boeheim has a pretty checkered past with NCAA compliance, and they got off pretty lightly. I've been arguing against it, but the evidence of P5 favoritism is getting pretty clear.

 

[Rico444]

I wonder if they'll let SMU wait until they're not going to make the tournament before they ban them?

 

[uchusky32]

Does this mean SMU moves ahead of us in Conference Realignment?