It was rhetorical...they're not in the same universe
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The best thing is now most OM fans will have hope that this is a great sign for them. Don't stop believing OM nation . Everything is going to be ok now..
The NCAA takes yet another PR hit before ruling on OM. I thought that this would be a primer for the OM verdict. Instead the NCAA punted on this one likely because they know they have a home run (sorry to mix sports metaphors) in OM. OM has already admitted to infractions. If OM skates then blowup the entire NCAA infractions department.
Agreed. As long as unc takes the position that the classes were not fraud but, rather, just easy classes open to everybody. The take away is the NCAA is not getting in the business of overruling/second guessing its member schools with respect to certain classes approved by the school are valid. If it did, it would open up Pandora's box.
But, if everybody agrees that the classes did amount to fraud that benefitted both student athletes and other students, then I disagree. You can absolutely punish the school for academic fraud that benefitted athletes, regardless of whether others benefited also.
This was a bad case all the way around. It's akin to a prosecutor who bows to outside pressure and tries to make a flimsy case stick, then gets waxed in court by the defense. That's why you saw the charges taken out of the 2nd NOA. Because of the high profile school and the media frenzy surrounding it, I think they were forced to add the charges back in to NOA #3.
It actually is similar to the Gilliard case - a benefit that was available to all students was taken advantage of. To me, the COI actually shows some advancement in common sense with their findings. Yes, athletes took this class in droves, but it was available to everyone. It's not like UGA basketball a few years ago where Harrick's son taught the class on coaching basketball and no one knew it existed. How many of you were really happy when you walked into your US History 101 class and saw that half of it were football players? It meant that the prof had a rep for being a reasonably easy class. You hated walking into the class labelled "staff" and finding out that the most ruthless prof in the department taught it - then scrambled to find a different class that fit your schedule before the drop/add date because you knew that class was a guaranteed D. Is it really very different from that?
Basically this wasn't even in the NCAA's jurisdiction. It is an accreditation issue. They were placed on probabtion by their accreditation board for a couple of years. Like Home Dawg said it's an old issue that's already been dealt with.
Ole miss was falsifying ACT scores specifically for athletes. That is squarely in the jurisdiction of the NCAA.
Not as an extra benefits case. The case should have been made as an academic fraud case, not benefits. Sankey said as much today. There was nothing in the record regarding the academic fraud details and discrepancies and thus the COI couldn't have drilled down on that issue even if it had wanted to.
One HUGE difference. UNC was transparent. Worked with the ncaa to make this happen. Didn’t say screw your we are better than you. Ole Miss is getting hammered. Hard. Don’t let this fool you. This doesn’t help them in any way
The HUGE difference is this ... Roy Williams.
AND UNC is a perennial power in men's hoops and just won a Natty.
No, the huge difference is that a huge percentage of the NCAA revenue comes from March madness and they are not going to go after one of their fair headed favorites. This may be why the aau swamp has gotten so corrupt, the NCAA was afraid of killing their money source. it has become such a big issue that the FBI has taken over and will be driving the ship from now on. Sankey punted and set the ncaa's death spiral in motion. this opens the door for rampant phony courses and other shady dealings (for the BB big boys) that are now certified as above board by today's announcement.