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Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:He is a serial offender. He has been punished by the NCAA three times at three different schools. Now, the circumstances surrounding each incident are--as we have discussed here--very, very tame if even Larry's fault at all, but in the eyes of the NCAA, he's three-for-three. Bilas really is one of the few, if only, individuals in and around the sport to bother doing any semblance of due diligence on the issue. Plus, that paragraph reads like it was written from the NCAA's perspective. And, as the NCAA's decision stated, they hammered us in part b/c Larry is 3 for 3, and--I guess in some alternate universe this makes sense--because 35 years ago we cheated at football and the school is still named SMU.

Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:He is a serial offender. He has been punished by the NCAA three times at three different schools. Now, the circumstances surrounding each incident are--as we have discussed here--very, very tame if even Larry's fault at all, but in the eyes of the NCAA, he's three-for-three. Bilas really is one of the few, if only, individuals in and around the sport to bother doing any semblance of due diligence on the issue. Plus, that paragraph reads like it was written from the NCAA's perspective. And, as the NCAA's decision stated, they hammered us in part b/c Larry is 3 for 3, and--I guess in some alternate universe this makes sense--because 35 years ago we cheated at football and the school is still named SMU.

ponyboy wrote:

Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:He is a serial offender. He has been punished by the NCAA three times at three different schools. Now, the circumstances surrounding each incident are--as we have discussed here--very, very tame if even Larry's fault at all, but in the eyes of the NCAA, he's three-for-three. Bilas really is one of the few, if only, individuals in and around the sport to bother doing any semblance of due diligence on the issue. Plus, that paragraph reads like it was written from the NCAA's perspective. And, as the NCAA's decision stated, they hammered us in part b/c Larry is 3 for 3, and--I guess in some alternate universe this makes sense--because 35 years ago we cheated at football and the school is still named SMU.

And I'm a serial rapist because I looked in the general direction of a woman a couple of times. Man, words have meaning and impact. Larry Brown is not a serial offender and you said as much above. And Tim Cowlishaw either does know it or should. Or he's selling us upstream to make a story more interesting.

mtrout wrote:Haha poor unc. Yeah they're really suffering... so much that they can't land a #1 signing class.

smusportspage wrote:

mtrout wrote:Haha poor unc. Yeah they're really suffering... so much that they can't land a #1 signing class.

Ha no kidding, that plus they are still allowed to play in the post season. Poor UNC. I have forgotten which radio talk show I heard it on just this week, but they were spinning that it is really not an athletic problem at UNC but an overall university problem as a whole. They were saying that because the fake classes were offered to the general student population and were taken by athletes and non-athletes that it was not a athletic department problem. I think the problem there is that the bogus classes were started from the get go on behalf of the athletic department some twenty years ago.

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Emmert: Syracuse players had “nothing to do with those [academic fraud] sanctions and they should be allowed to play.”