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Some Clarification from the Courant

Everyone thought Bazz had the last laugh in 2014 embarrassing Emmert after NC game.

Lets see how nice they are to us now !!! Or who gets last laugh.. This could completely destroy mens basketball program at UCONN
 
Captbluefin said:
Our favorite former employee who it is well known is still bitter (Glen Miller) . Putting the screws to his former boss and destroying whats left of his career.
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No chance. Wouldn't do that to Jim.
 
Captbluefin said:
Everyone thought Bazz had the last laugh in 2014 embarrassing Emmert after NC game.

Lets see how nice they are to us now !!! Or who gets last laugh.. This could completely destroy mens basketball program at UCONN
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I keep thinking about that moment. Emmert looking back now....hmmmm
 
This entite framework us just so stupid. God forbid a college athlete that helps pull in millions of dollars for his school be allowed to earn the value of his services like any other worker in this free country of ours.

Far better to let Emmert and a few dozen other “executives” at the NCAA siphon off 7-figure salaries for themselves to launch arbitrary investigations into whether somebody gave a kid a sandwich. Because something something “noble amaterism” something.

Pay the damn players already and this whole stupid recruiting cloak-and-dagger routine goes away.
 
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superjohn said:
This obviously sucks but we're still a school that's won 4 titles and we'll have 10 million dollars off the books for our next hire.
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You think that $10m is going to be available? I don't. It's going to take a big contract to get somebody of note to come here.

Tenspro2002 said:
You could have said the same about Indiana post-Sampson. And they're still able to attract top coaching candidates.
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Indiana is a far greater job than UCONN.
 
JMick said:
It will be hard to make a good hire if guilty and the sanctions are bad enough. we will have to find a nobody with potential
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Have you no sense of respect for our history and tradition?
 
VAHuskyFan said:
This entite framework us just so stupid. God forbid a college athlete that helps pull in millions of dollars for his school be allowed to earn the value of his services like any other worker in this free country of ours.
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It is a whole other topic but yes, nearly everything about college athletics is idiotic. It's a cesspool, a farce and a joke. If this kills the program it'll actually be a relief since I'd stop following college sports entirely.
 
JMick said:
It will be hard to make a good hire if guilty and the sanctions are bad enough. we will have to find a nobody with potential
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I do know one thing. While the 'NCAA penalizing UCONN' jokes are stupid, I can in all honesty see the NCAA justifying harsher penalties because UCONN didn't 'clean up their house'. If Emmert has his way, it's not an unrealistic idea.
 
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JMick said:
That has nothing to do with it, strawmaster
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“Our history and tradition outweigh recent developments” is not a strawman, I’ve been seeing it here for weeks.
 
CTBasketball said:
Not if the recruits say "Yeah, UConn tried some shady stuff to get me to sign."
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The implication being that the other schools didn't do anything shady in actually signing them? That for the first time in the history of college athletics, a kid picks a clean, inferior program over a dirty, superior program?
 
Ok, I've taken a deep breath.

The courant report is bad.

Like, v bad.

But, the only place I've seen the immunity stuff mentioned is from Wolken. Is that right?
 
Stairmaster said:
“Our history and tradition outweigh recent developments” is not a strawman, I’ve been seeing it here for weeks.
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But there were no possible sanctions in the equation until this came out
 
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....you are now entering the "cloak of secrecy"......the NCAA compels folks they've interviewed not to comment under sanction to have to work in their offices for 3 years if they do comment.....so let the speculation explode for.......remember, the NM case took approximately 3 yrs for the National Collegiate Association of Autocrats to resolve......
 
superjohn said:
This obviously sucks but we're still a school that's won 4 titles and we'll have 10 million dollars off the books for our next hire.
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Do you think good coaches will want to come to a school with sanctions? Louisville has a ton more money. They're going to hire Padgett soon.
 
VAHuskyFan said:
Pay the damn players already and this whole stupid recruiting cloak-and-dagger routine goes away.
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You're not wrong about paying the players, but it's not going to change the cloak and dagger thing. At all. The best guys will just get offered money on top of their stipend/salary. The best will still get funneled where agents/shoe companies/boosters want them. Too much money involved to solve this problem.
 
JMick said:
But there were no possible sanctions in the equation until this came out
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I don’t think they change people’s calculus all that much. I’m likely wrong though.
 
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Block C said:
What kind of sanctions do you think we will get?
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A one year ban and scholarships. If we're caught giving any benefits or cash inducements to recruits. At a minimum. And if they roll the Nate Miles thing into this, much more than that.
 
How did we cheat with recruits if none of them committed to UCONN? That means there was no money/perks exchanged and it's just a matter of he said/she said (recruit/UCONN).

Also, if there were cash payments involved, wouldn't the FBI be involved??
 
Stairmaster said:
I don’t think they change people’s calculus all that much. I’m likely wrong though.
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It absolutely changes the calculus. Potential sanctions/brand hits/defections etc leaves a scorched earth to deal with.
 
upstater said:
A one year ban and scholarships. If we're caught giving any benefits or cash inducements to recruits. At a minimum. And if they roll the Nate Miles thing into this, much more than that.
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Does this mean we get new coaching staff or keep current staff. This shocked me when I saw this article around 1 in the morning
 
Block C said:
What kind of sanctions do you think we will get?
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Again, not a UCONN/NCAA joke, but do you honestly think Emmert and Co are not going to pull out all the stops to do something?

I guarantee this has been on Emmert's plate since Shabazz spit in his eye.
 
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