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It's a premium story, but the senior writer of the Kansas scout.com site has a truly revealing column...
the first half downplays the severity of the scandal at Kansas with comments like...
The whole affair is no big deal...
"First, let’s get some perspective. A handful of KU employees stole a
Field House full of tickets over the course of years and scalped them for silly
amounts of money. A lot of trust was violated ..
Opposing coaches may try and baffle a few recruits with some “troubled
school” bull.
..Reality is, to you and me, $1 million is not a lot of money.
..To Kansas athletics, though, $1 million is something you pick up after a nice
lunch with Dana Anderson. It’s an accounting error.
..This was five people – six if you count Blubaugh’s husband, Mike, who was
a contract consultant to the athletic department – who (allegedly) decided
to make some cash by stealing tickets and scalping them.
This was a group of employees stealing from the office. That’s it. ...No one
cares, however, when Linda takes a ream of paper and a box of pens from
the office.
A crime doesn’t constitute an NCAA rules violation. So cool your jets on that,
Turbo.....
If they (Kansas) hadn’t hired Perkins, KU would be the best **** school in
the Missouri Valley right now.
Corruption in college athletics has been going on since the 1920s, probably
even before that.
.......they’re not doing anything illegal. There’s nothing wrong with ticket
brokering, so long as you report the income..."
But then the revealing part.....the bottom line is that schols like Kansas, and UConn, Oklahoma, USC -- all the guys getting caught now really just DON'T CARE any mor.....and here's why.....
"If you think it’s bad now, however, wait until the conference
realignment takes place. This is a move about nothing other than money. It’s
not about the students or the fans. It’s about money. Money money money.
Here’s the real kicker, though: if you think it’s bad then, wait till
the power conferences tell the NCAA to take a hike and start holding
their own postseason basketball tournament and, it would
logically follow, football playoff. It’s already in the works among some
institutions. That will result in an all-out money-grab. Don’t bother writing a
rule book because no one will read it....nothing will stop the corruption that is
so prevalent at NCAA institutions. The NCAA won’t do that, because they
have too much at stake. In order to make it not worth criminals’ time, they’d
have to institute policies and rules that would take money out of their own
pockets. They don’t have the huevos to do that."
so the BCS boys have the NCAA by the ba**s...and NCAA still wants to be part of the equation when the major schools form their own MONOPOLY and try grabbing for all the revenue and money generated by games and TV...
NCAA simply doesn't want to do anything right now that would anger the real power players here...the BCS schools.......
the first half downplays the severity of the scandal at Kansas with comments like...
The whole affair is no big deal...
"First, let’s get some perspective. A handful of KU employees stole a
Field House full of tickets over the course of years and scalped them for silly
amounts of money. A lot of trust was violated ..
Opposing coaches may try and baffle a few recruits with some “troubled
school” bull.
..Reality is, to you and me, $1 million is not a lot of money.
..To Kansas athletics, though, $1 million is something you pick up after a nice
lunch with Dana Anderson. It’s an accounting error.
..This was five people – six if you count Blubaugh’s husband, Mike, who was
a contract consultant to the athletic department – who (allegedly) decided
to make some cash by stealing tickets and scalping them.
This was a group of employees stealing from the office. That’s it. ...No one
cares, however, when Linda takes a ream of paper and a box of pens from
the office.
A crime doesn’t constitute an NCAA rules violation. So cool your jets on that,
Turbo.....
If they (Kansas) hadn’t hired Perkins, KU would be the best **** school in
the Missouri Valley right now.
Corruption in college athletics has been going on since the 1920s, probably
even before that.
.......they’re not doing anything illegal. There’s nothing wrong with ticket
brokering, so long as you report the income..."
But then the revealing part.....the bottom line is that schols like Kansas, and UConn, Oklahoma, USC -- all the guys getting caught now really just DON'T CARE any mor.....and here's why.....
"If you think it’s bad now, however, wait until the conference
realignment takes place. This is a move about nothing other than money. It’s
not about the students or the fans. It’s about money. Money money money.
Here’s the real kicker, though: if you think it’s bad then, wait till
the power conferences tell the NCAA to take a hike and start holding
their own postseason basketball tournament and, it would
logically follow, football playoff. It’s already in the works among some
institutions. That will result in an all-out money-grab. Don’t bother writing a
rule book because no one will read it....nothing will stop the corruption that is
so prevalent at NCAA institutions. The NCAA won’t do that, because they
have too much at stake. In order to make it not worth criminals’ time, they’d
have to institute policies and rules that would take money out of their own
pockets. They don’t have the huevos to do that."
so the BCS boys have the NCAA by the ba**s...and NCAA still wants to be part of the equation when the major schools form their own MONOPOLY and try grabbing for all the revenue and money generated by games and TV...
NCAA simply doesn't want to do anything right now that would anger the real power players here...the BCS schools.......
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