When it comes to college athletics, it sure seems cheating pays

[bluedog]

At Big 12 media days last July, commissioner Bob Bowlsby sent a ripple through college sports by declaring that “cheating pays.” He said the NCAA’s enforcement model was “broken” and that the risk of significant punishment didn’t outweigh the reward of winning.

“They’re in a battle with a BB gun in their hand,” Bowlsby said. “They’re fighting howitzers."


This set off a spasm of reaction and rebuttal, including NCAA president Mark Emmert and director of enforcement Jon Duncan defending the association’s ability to police itself.



As we head into March Madness, you can expect the usual round of assessments of the college sports landscape and its ethical land mines. There will be cheerleaders who declare all is well, and there will be those who sail in after not paying attention at all to declare the place a disaster area. The truth is somewhere in the middle – but what’s transpired since Bowlsby’s startling July declaration gives credence to what he said. A Top 10 List of recent developments:

• Oregon and Ohio State played for the college football national championship. The Ducks were still on probation, dating to a 2013 NCAA ruling. The Buckeyes came off probation 24 days before the championship game, dating to a 2011 NCAA ruling.

• Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in January, with nearly two years remaining on the NCAA show-cause penalty he received as part of that 2011 Committee on Infractions ruling. In May 2014, Tressel was named president of Youngstown State University.

• An 18-month show-cause penalty against former Oregon coach Chip Kelly expired in December, and fans of several colleges clamored for schools to hire him. Kelly instead opted to keep his $6.5 million-a-year job as coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. His assistant chief of staff is Josh Gibson, who received a one-year show-cause penalty from the NCAA as part of the 2013 ruling against Oregon.

• A report commissioned by North Carolina revealed, in devastating detail, systemic academic fraud within the school and conservatively estimated that more than 1,500 athletes were part of the scam over a period of 18 years. The NCAA re-opened its own investigation, which previously had led to no allegations. Basketball coach Roy Williams is in the Hall of Fame. Former football coach Butch Davis, fired in 2011 as part of the fall-out from the scandal, is an ESPN analyst.


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Syracuse self-imposed a postseason ban on Jim Boeheim's basketball team. (USAT)

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/when-i...s--it-sure-seems-cheating-pays-202028701.html

But yet we will run like Stephen in D'jango, calling every media station in America, degrading our own

 

[Robber]

You can be on probation and still be eligible for the post-season. The punishmet has to specifically ban you for a particular period.

 

[EB]

I wonder how long Howard Bryant is going to be at ESPN.

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Johnson, Patterson to exit Syracuse
Updated: March 19, 2015, 10:18 PM ET
By Jeff Borzello | ESPN.com

Syracuse sophomores B.J. Johnson and Ron Patterson are leaving the program and will look to transfer, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN.

Johnson, a 6-foot-7 forward, averaged 4.2 points and 3.2 rebounds this past season. Patterson, a 6-2 guard, averaged 2.6 points and 1.7 assists.

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Great power and no responsibility
Boeheim and others claim ignorance despite unquestioned leadership over programs
Originally Published: March 17, 2015
By Howard Bryant | ESPN The Magazine

Editor's note: Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim announced Wednesday that he will be retiring in three years. Athletic director Daryl Gross also resigned to take another position at the school in the wake of the sanctions levied against the school. Full story here.

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IN 2008, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS led by Citigroup and Merrill Lynch received $175 billion of taxpayer money during the federal government bailout, then gave their employees $32.6 billion in bonuses. In 2014, Bud Selig and Roger Goodell each earned more in salary and bonuses than most every player in their sports.

As accountability continues its losing streak to big money, the Masters of the Universe solidify their place in America. Tom Wolfe's term, coined in the 1980s to describe ruthless Wall Street climbers, now applies to elite college coaches as the sports industrial complex grows more powerful. Jim Boeheim and his fallen Syracuse basketball program are just the latest example. Boeheim, that great leader of young men who, like hundreds of others in his profession, has for years profited from the popular narrative of the coach as moral influence, was recently whacked by an eight-year NCAA investigation that portrayed him as the head of a corrupt program. The NCAA is hardly in a moral position to cast judgment on anyone, but both judge and defendant are part of the same cartel, and Boeheim was in violation of how the cartel does business.

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[JR]

They can leave my Buckeyes out of it. The NCAA penalty did not fit the infractions. I am still pissed about it. Tressel was the one who kept it quiet. So he paid for it as he should have. But all over freaking Tattoos for some damn trinkets the players thought they owned. Meanwhile other schools had worse infractions and kept playing with no sanctions.