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I happened to stumble on a particular case, and in rereading the NCAA ruling,
I have to admit, I was astounded.
FLASHBACK--- Here is the case....
Basketball Head Coach Jim Harrick presided over a tenure at University of Georgia that was one of the most corrupt in history.
Just read the NCAA official report and see for yourself.
Here are but a few of the findings:
--Wire transfers of cash directly to prospective players (recruits) by members of the coaching staff.
--The assistant involved openly and blatantly lied about the purpose of the cash transfer.
--Basketball coaches purposefully made a mockery of the education of his players and committed academic fraud by
setting up sham classes, that the players didn't even need to go to, were tested by being asked the most laughably simple
questions, and then given "A's" no matter what their performance.
--multiple staff members in the athletic dept. lied and tried to deceive NCAA investigators about the sham classes.
--The coaches, including the head coach, frequently missed and were absent from the very classes they were
supposed to be teaching.
--multiple examples of extra, impermissible benefits were found.
--the coaches even told and prompted the players to lie to the investigators.
--extra benefits totalling thousands of dollars were given openly to recruits and players in the form of free phone calls, etc.
--MANY, MANY of these violations were fully known to the coaching staff and they were given the opportunity to
self report but instead lied and hid the evidence.
--Georgia, by virtue of having a major infraction in 1997, was considered to be a repeat violator inside of the time frame
that they were still on probation, since many of these new violations occurred as far back as 2001....
they were widely expect to be fully deserving of the DEATH PENALTY!
--and much, much more...just read the report...
So, do you recall the penalty the school got??
Here is a summary of what the NCAA handed down.
First, let it be known that Georgia fired Harrick and his staff,
so the NCAA gave the entire coaching staff responsible NO PENALTY except one of the assistants must seek NCAA OK before hiring on elsewhere.
Georgia got --
-4 years of probation
-public reprimand
-loss of only ONE basketball scholarship
-NO addition postseason ban or penalty, and NO active player suspensions, and not one single dollar of all the graft and corruption was required to be paid back.
-two other university personnell, the trainer and the chairman of the Phys. Ed. Dept., who both lied to investigators and were willing participants in all the fraud were given only a letter of reprimand from the university and no other punishment from the NCAA!!
Hmmm......if this was a midmajor they would have surely gotten the death penalty plus 20 more years of probation in all other sports and loss of postseason play and scholarships for a decade.
Can there be any doubt that Georgia got off with little more than a slap.
NO recruiting restrictions other than the loss of ONE basketball scholarship. And NOT ONE tiny postseason ban of any kind.
No loss of recruiting days (Bradley got recruiting days restricted).
In the very year this ruling was handed down, if they had made it to the NCAA, they'd have been able to go!
I need offer no more proof than this case alone to show how the big (BCS-type) schools are treated differently than smaller schools like BU.
When the NCAA gave BU its year of probation, they dragged out a reference to the NCAA penalties over 20 years ago to hint that BU has a pattern of problems, so that the penalty needed to be more severe.
In this case, Georgia commits some of the most blatant and massive violations, lies about, and goes virtually unpunished even tho they are still inside a probationary period from their last MAJOR INFRACTION in 1997!!
Anyone else with comments?
I have to admit, I was astounded.
FLASHBACK--- Here is the case....
Basketball Head Coach Jim Harrick presided over a tenure at University of Georgia that was one of the most corrupt in history.
Just read the NCAA official report and see for yourself.
Here are but a few of the findings:
--Wire transfers of cash directly to prospective players (recruits) by members of the coaching staff.
--The assistant involved openly and blatantly lied about the purpose of the cash transfer.
--Basketball coaches purposefully made a mockery of the education of his players and committed academic fraud by
setting up sham classes, that the players didn't even need to go to, were tested by being asked the most laughably simple
questions, and then given "A's" no matter what their performance.
--multiple staff members in the athletic dept. lied and tried to deceive NCAA investigators about the sham classes.
--The coaches, including the head coach, frequently missed and were absent from the very classes they were
supposed to be teaching.
--multiple examples of extra, impermissible benefits were found.
--the coaches even told and prompted the players to lie to the investigators.
--extra benefits totalling thousands of dollars were given openly to recruits and players in the form of free phone calls, etc.
--MANY, MANY of these violations were fully known to the coaching staff and they were given the opportunity to
self report but instead lied and hid the evidence.
--Georgia, by virtue of having a major infraction in 1997, was considered to be a repeat violator inside of the time frame
that they were still on probation, since many of these new violations occurred as far back as 2001....
they were widely expect to be fully deserving of the DEATH PENALTY!
--and much, much more...just read the report...
So, do you recall the penalty the school got??
Here is a summary of what the NCAA handed down.
First, let it be known that Georgia fired Harrick and his staff,
so the NCAA gave the entire coaching staff responsible NO PENALTY except one of the assistants must seek NCAA OK before hiring on elsewhere.
Georgia got --
-4 years of probation
-public reprimand
-loss of only ONE basketball scholarship
-NO addition postseason ban or penalty, and NO active player suspensions, and not one single dollar of all the graft and corruption was required to be paid back.
-two other university personnell, the trainer and the chairman of the Phys. Ed. Dept., who both lied to investigators and were willing participants in all the fraud were given only a letter of reprimand from the university and no other punishment from the NCAA!!
Hmmm......if this was a midmajor they would have surely gotten the death penalty plus 20 more years of probation in all other sports and loss of postseason play and scholarships for a decade.
Can there be any doubt that Georgia got off with little more than a slap.
NO recruiting restrictions other than the loss of ONE basketball scholarship. And NOT ONE tiny postseason ban of any kind.
No loss of recruiting days (Bradley got recruiting days restricted).
In the very year this ruling was handed down, if they had made it to the NCAA, they'd have been able to go!
I need offer no more proof than this case alone to show how the big (BCS-type) schools are treated differently than smaller schools like BU.
When the NCAA gave BU its year of probation, they dragged out a reference to the NCAA penalties over 20 years ago to hint that BU has a pattern of problems, so that the penalty needed to be more severe.
In this case, Georgia commits some of the most blatant and massive violations, lies about, and goes virtually unpunished even tho they are still inside a probationary period from their last MAJOR INFRACTION in 1997!!
Anyone else with comments?
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