NCAA about to slam University of Central Florida with major penalties

[Da Coach]

The University of Central Florida was investigated by the NCAA after a New York Times investigation uncovered a number of willfull rules violations-

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18540

Then UCF imposed a few punishments on themselves as damage control-

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19571

But the NCAA is set to announce their decision today, and ESPN's Andy Katz is reporting they will add additional penalties-

https://twitter.com/ESPNAndyKatz/status/230293572799307777

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NCAA about to slam University of Central Florida with major penalties

Here's where this story stands in contrast to other major violations cases....
go back and check the cases of Bruce Pearl cheating and lying to NCAA, and USC paying Reggie Bush & OJ Mayo, Kelvin Sampson cheating hundreds of times on recruiting, the current & ongoing Miami payoff case, and others involving biggie programs...
Those cases dragged out (or are still dragging on) several years - as much as 5 years - allowing those schools to continue to generate big time $$.
And none of those cases, even though everyone knew they were happening, even interested NCAA until embarrassing independent articles by ESPN or YahooSports forced NCAA to act...

Then even tho those cases were enormous degrees of violations, they still got off fairly easy...

BUT reference the Central Florida case...

-first, the degree of violations is pretty minor - just maybe a few of the players had contact with (gasp) a guy who could be considered an agent - no money appears to have changed hands.

-all the people responsible have already stepped down or been fired - UCF did an instant and thorough job of disciplining their own...and set some of the MOST SEVERE self-imposed penalties ever recorded - hoping the NCAA would then be happy.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/story/2012-04-12/central-florida-ncaa-infractions-hearing/54227432/1

-none of this was even on the horizon until last November - then UCF's NCAA hearing was just in April - and yet they get hammered by NCAA in literally light-speed timing when the other big cases drag on silently for YEARS!

-only ONE basketball player who was ever linked to any questionable recruiting ever played a game at UCF (AJ Rompza) and he had NO other D-I offers so UCF really didn't gain any advantage getting him since they were his only D-I option.

-Their football record this year was 5-7 and their 8-year record under the current head coach is 50-50 - hardly evidence they are gaining any big time advantage from their cheating.

They've done a little better in basketball but not as if cheating has repeatedly landed them BIG NAME players!!
Look at the players they have had - Rompza, Dwight McCombs, Jeff Jordan, Marcus Jordan, Josh Crittle, Keith Clanton, Nik Garcia, and the rest whose names are totally unrecognizable -
Tell me which player they'd have even had to cheat to get - UCF was the only D-I place to even offer most of those rejects.

Personally, I think this is just another example of NCAA going overboard in hammering a lesser school so they can claim they are tough on cheating - while granting passes to the biggie schools unless forced to act by publicity & public opinion.

[Da Coach]

The official report-

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/19694694/central-florida-hit-with-one-year-postseason-ban-in-both-sports

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In the "gimme a break" category is this USA Today article saying this slamming of UCF is proof that the NCAA is SERIOUS about getting the crooked agents out of college sports!

OMG -- then how come USC basketball got absolutely NO penalty after it was PROVEN that agents and middlemen peddled OJ Mayo to Tim Floyd for cash in an envelop...

And how come the NCAA cleared Renardo Sydney to play at Mississippi State even though it was well known to everyone that agents had been peddling Sydney to UCLA & USC and paying people off for years.

How come even though it was proven beyond question that UConn's Jim Calhoun allowed crooked agents to help him land players..and he's still coaching there and received only a tiny slap...

And when players like Josh Selby (Kansas), John Wall, and Nerlens Noel (Kentucky) get caught with crooked agents peddling their talents - those players get nothing more than a game or two suspension and then are allowed to play for the big time programs and the coaches who similarly knew of the violations, participated in them and broke the rules in allowing it to happen (Bill Self, John Calipari) get off scott-free?
When POB & Will Franklin took a mere few dollars because of an unintentional oversight - they got 8 games suspension!

Then there's Auburn's Cam Newton is exposed to have had agents (even his dad) specifically asking for $250K payments to funnel Newton to their school - everyone gets off free except Cam's dad is banned from Auburn's campus but only after his kid has graduated!

And of course the story of Anthony Davis' agent and dad demanding $200K for his kid to go to UK, and the entire story gets totally swept under the rug.

And on and on there are dozens of examples of the big schools getting away with murder in the cases of agents making & taking payoffs from big name programs and coaches..but only the little guys get hammered..

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/story/2012-07-31/ncaa-takes-aim-at-influence-of-agents/56636864/1?csp=34sports&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomCollegeSports-TopStories+%28Sports+-+College+-+Top+Stories%29

BTW -- the UCF head coach under whom a lot of these violations occurred and when players received IMPERMISSIBLE benefits but who left in 2010 was Kirk Speraw
who got out of town pronto back in 2010 and is now an assistant at Iowa....odd how he might be one of the most responsible guys for this whole mess at Central Florida -
but again, now he's at one of the big boy schools - he goes unscathed...
Shouldn't the penalties follow the guilty party?? Shouldn't Speraw be penalized?



One more thought - since MJ's 2nd oldest son, Marcus Jordan is a senior at UCF, and now has no chance to play this year in the post-season - he would be allowed to transfer immediately without penalty and be eligible right away...
but does anyone think there will be schools interested? I think there would be but many schools would be cautious of upsetting their team chemistry and causing publicity-chaos in taking Michael Jordan's kid...

[Braves4Life]

One more thought - since MJ's 2nd oldest son, Marcus Jordan is a senior at UCF, and now has no chance to play this year in the post-season - he would be allowed to transfer immediately without penalty and be eligible right away...
but does anyone think there will be schools interested? I think there would be but many schools would be cautious of upsetting their team chemistry and causing publicity-chaos in taking Michael Jordan's kid...

In essence you were right. It has been announced that "Marcus Jordan, UCF's second leading scorer last season, will remain in school but will not play basketball this season..."

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2012-08-20/marcus-jordan-ucf-michael-jordan