BeachedBear said:
OaktownBear said:
BearSD said:
HoopDreams said:
BigDaddy said:
No postseason ban = slap on the wrist
not even loss of schollies
Based on the violations cited in the report -- no money was paid to either recruits or current players; the assistant coach was taking a bribe to push players to sign with a certain agent -- a slap on the wrist was the right call. If it had been found that the coach funneled money from the agent to players or recruits, that would warrant harsher sanctions.
The coach should be on a ten year ban and thereafter an order to show cause
I want to see how all of this turns out. Reading the stuff from the wiretaps, there is a number of cases where multiple schools were bidding on the same player. One school would win the auction (Arizona) and two or three schools (USC) would lose. The winner will have the money issue, but the others will not - even though they were all performing the same behavior, but lost the bidding war.
I expect the winner will be punished differently than losers - but it is all very hypocritical IMHO. If the colleges, NCAA and others were at all serious about any of this, they would do what you describe.
But they won't - because they're not.
I think it's more because the NCAA investigation power is limited, and it's limited because the NCAA membership wants it that way.
Would it be interesting if they had the power to get *all* of the personal financial records, phone records, and email, of assistant coaches and basketball staff members at Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, Arizona, etc., so that they could identify which staff members are bagmen? Of course it would. Will the schools ever permit the NCAA to dig that deep? Of course they won't.