Kansas Crimson

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:14 pm Forde must be furiously writing his next hit piece on KU.

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:22 pm If we had just one less scholly this past summer: no Agbaji.

twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:32 pm

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:22 pm If we had just one less scholly this past summer: no Agbaji.

Or no Return of Vick.

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:35 pm

twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:32 pm

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:22 pm If we had just one less scholly this past summer: no Agbaji.

Or no Return of Vick.

Nah, we're only at 12 now.

Point being is that KU can't go after fringe guys w/ one less scholarship. That's punishment to all of KU, the fans, and a player like Agbaji.

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:49 pm perhaps (likely) i'm wrong, but wouldn't misery have some legal recourse to the ncaa ruling?

or, do they not since they are "voluntarily" adhering to ncaa guidelines?

pdub wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:52 pm Deny deny is what they say.

One tutor went rogue with 12 students and the University of Missouri athletic department is fined hundreds of thousands of dollars, docked scholarships, must vacate wins, gets slapped with recruiting restrictions and is even banned from playing in a bowl game next season.

What amounted to institutional academic fraud involving more than a thousand athletes was proven at North Carolina and ... bupkis.

The NCAA is often criticized, especially here, but that’s only because the band of hypocritical, make-it-up-as-they-go, common-sense-below-all-else bureaucrats makes it so dang easy.

Mizzou is taking a harsh penalty here for a misdeed it did not and could not be reasonably expected to know about in real time. The school, by all accounts, cooperated and followed protocols once the misdeeds were known. Mizzou would’ve been better off lying. Or, taking UNC’s example, better off creating, controlling and expanding the misdeeds throughout campus and over many years.

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Anyone who values simple common sense more than years of lawyer-exploited loopholes would conclude that North Carolina should be punished much more harshly than Mizzou.

But the NCAA has long wrapped itself inside of so many nonsensical rules, arbitrarily written without enough consideration for unintended consequences, that it has made itself a literal joke among many institutions it is charged with governing.

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The NCAA created this mess for itself. It created the mess by underfunding its own ability to enforce rules that don’t make sense, and by a decades-long run of rulings and penalties that have convinced many that some schools are protected while others are punished.

Even a shred of self-awareness, common sense or an ability to prioritize the spirit of the made-up law instead of its letter would be a vast improvement.

The NCAA’s entire history would indicate that none of that is coming. Mizzou is the latest school with the tire tracks to prove it.

pdub wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 11:51 am I'm gathering the kids that could get scholarships at MIZZOU will end up finding a scholarship elsewhere.

ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 1:40 pm I’d love to see some even higher profile player/coach - what up Zion and K - get caught with their hand in the cookie jar, only to have the critical mass to squarely put the NCAA on the spot.

In fact, that might be the only thing K could ever do that would actually make him likable.

painter wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:33 pm

ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 1:40 pm I’d love to see some even higher profile player/coach - what up Zion and K - get caught with their hand in the cookie jar, only to have the critical mass to squarely put the NCAA on the spot.

In fact, that might be the only thing K could ever do that would actually make him likable.

I would like to see this happen right after Selection Sunday and have the NCAA rule Zion ineligible.
Then have Coach K say "fuck you" to the NCAA and play him anyway and eventually lose to a directional vo-tech school in the 2nd round to make it a complete comedy of errors.