LA Times exposes NCAA

[tornado]

The NCAA was all set to clear Renardo Sydney - despite all the $$ and extra benefits from recruiters and agents...but the LA Times exposes the corruption surrounding this kid's recruitment..
they did the legwork and found the corruption but the NCAA apparently is just going to look the other way!!!

After posturing for a few months, the NCAA says they've checked the kid out and he's still cleared to play anyway!!!

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/05/sports/la-sp-renardo-sidney-20100306

honestly, even USC turned the kid away knowing how dirty the situation was...yet the NCAA still didn't see it...

Kids like OJ Mayo, that everyone know are on the take, are still cleared by NCAA if they go to BCS schools, but if a kid like John Wilkins even thinks about going to a mid-major, then no way.

This exposes the NCAA as corrupt and favoring any big school no matter how ridiculous the NCAA violations (this kid and him family lived in a million dollar house courtesy of middle men and agents!)

[tornado]

Here's the NCAA report...the kid delayed his own investigation by giving the NCAA
"false or misleading information"..thus he took this year as a redshirt year....

But ..in other words...they lied like heck, tried to scam the NCAA, and got at least $11,800 in personal and improper gains...among other violations...
and yet all the kid gets is the EXACT SAME penalty as Patrick O'Bryant got!!!!
(30% of his scheduled games next year - or about 8 games!!)

[jasonpeoria911]

Looks like the NCAA was listening to you Tornado LOL, Sidney is toast for a little while....

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4969664

Jason

[Guinness]

Its a private organization looking after itself. What do you expect? If I were the NCAA and it lined my pockets I would too.

[tornado]

Looks like the NCAA was listening to you Tornado LOL, Sidney is toast for a little while....

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4969664

Jason

no - read it again, jason........

the sitting out of THIS season isn't so much a penalty...since the season's over and the reason for the delay was Renardo Sydney's own failure to cooperate with NCAA...so not playing this year isn't really a penalty at all...
Sydney's been with the team practicing all seaosn...so it's a simple redshirt year.

then paying back the money and sitting the first 30% of games games next year
IS PRECISELY THE SAME PENALTY AS PATRICK O'BRYANT GOT!

so POB's was inadvertent, amounted to $1200, and he & BU cooperated fully even leading the NCAA like blind people to the evidence...
But Sydney's violation was willful, amounted to at least $11,800 (and likely a whole lot more) and was spread out over years while all along he and his family lied, hid the evidence, and tried to deceive the NCAA...

yet in the end, they really got the exact penalty!!!

[AZ BU Fan]

I am not into tatoos, aren't they kinda expensive? Especially the decorative art types that some college basketball and football players have?

If they are expensive, under restrictive NCAA rules on jobs and gifts, and top programs' players having to practice/train year round, how do college scholarship basketball and football athletes afford these pieces of body art?

[daPAWW1]

The Rule is the Rule - sometimes?

Don't disagree with you T but if you read the rules about jobs they don't state $ amounts received wo/ benefit of work performed and on the other point of Wilkens - it doesn't distinguish about the level of 'a pro' is or isn't. So I'd say POB's penalty was what it should have been and shame on us for letting it happen and as to Wilken's future penalty - he probably is receiving the benefit of the doubt because quite frankly they could have said 'a pro is a pro' and he's not eligible to play - period!

And quite frankly I beleive the 2005 games POB missed due to penalty were not counted against us when the NCAA selection committee reviewed us for the field of 65! So I think they were more than fair with us - otherwise the 2006 Sweet 16 run might never have happened!

[tornado]

but the NCAA used the vague and nebulous claim of "failure to cooperate with investigators"
as a cause to absolutely hammer Bradley back in 1986.....
so why, even when they cite the lies, deception, and failure to cooperate in regards to Sydney -- they add NOTHING to the absolute MINIMAL penalty he could have gotten under the rules...nothing!!

Nope - you won't convince me...the NCAA uses the rules and bends them to their advantage and for their own purpose...they hammer smaller schools for the same vioaltions that they excuse the bigger ones...
note they still have never issued a single word on the Reggie Bush massive cheating and OJ massive cheating...and we're talking 5 -6 years gone by already!!!

[tornado]

still no word on whether NCAA will ever bother to check out all the cheating at USC during the Reggie Bush and OJ Mayo era...

but the USC football coach who did all the cheating, Pete Carroll says he would be surprised if they punished USC at all!!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail??blogid=95&entry_id=63308

they do hint that NCAA is "expected to make a ruling this week"...but even that is the butt of jokes...

http://www.sbnation.com/2010/5/10/1466781/usc-ncaa-sanctions-bush-mayo-ruling