What will really get you cranked up is what the actual differences are in the allegations. I'm paraphrasing and this may not be totally accurate but:
Syracuse - Fab Melo received improper coursework assistance. Local YMCA gives some players jobs. Not sure what else but I'm sure there's more to it. Allowed to self ban in a season where they weren't making the tourney anyway and then the following season the committee takes into account Boeheim's suspension to let them into the tournament with 18 wins and a 70+ RPI.
SMU - Academic fraud with secretaries and assistant coaches taking exams, Larry Brown lies about it or at minimum obstructs the investigation and they get spanked.
UNC - Offers paper classes in AFAM program which include grade manipulation and all kinds of other academic fraud between 1992 and 2011 in order to keep athletes eligible. There were no actual classes, no interaction with faculty and one paper to be written that was automatically given high grades without even being read by anyone. Men's basketball players account for 12% of the students taking the paper classes. There were 229 enrollments in the paper classes by men's basketball players between 1999-2009. Players enrolled in the paper classes by coach: Dean Smith - 54, Bill Guthridge - 17, Matt Doherty - 42, Roy Williams - 167! (dadgummit)
2003-04 - five of the fifteen members of the basketball team are
majoring in AFAM. 2005 - ten of the fifteen members of the basketball team are
majoring in AFAM. These guys weren't just taking these classes to help boost GPA in other majors, they were actually majoring in them. If you really want to get good and pissed off read this link:
http://3qh929iorux3fdpl532k03kg.wpe...-content/uploads/2014/10/UNC-FINAL-REPORT.pdf . This is the university's own internal investigation and it is probably harder on them than the NCAA will be. The football team was easily 10 times worse and women's basketball was pretty involved as well. These classes kept players eligible who otherwise might not have been. When you look at the scope of it, it is actually worse than anything Calipari and Larry Brown have done (or at least been caught doing) put together.
If their athletic programs are not sanctioned or punished in some way, pretty hard, it would be so blatantly obvious that the NCAA is favoring and protecting their P5 conferences. I'm guessing one of the reasons this has taken so long is that they are trying to figure out how to sell the nonsense they are coming up with to the general public to control the outrage. I thought they would try to get this out of the way during the summer, before the football and basketball seasons start. Maybe I'll be wrong and they will spank them hard in the fall when it really hurts, but I doubt it.
