I want UNC and Roy to burn in hell, but I am sure as hell rooting for them to win the title. It'll net me a lot of money.
Oh my God, I really started laughing when I saw that poll.
There has to be a financial incentive to do that. In order for their to be a sizeable enough financial incentive for the effort to seriously threaten the NCAA, the big football (not basketball!) programs have to get in on it. I'm talking the big SEC, PAC-12 and B10 schools. Wouldn't hurt to have ACC schools in on it, too. Good luck getting that to happen.
We're stuck with the NCAA.
Oh my God, I really started laughing when I saw that poll.
Jeeeeeeeeeesus, this guy is funny.
I visited UNC Scouts and Rivals boards. They're in total denial, and the threads dedicated to the scandal are less than a page. They're not even talking about it because they know it means nothing and that it's going to go nowhere. The replies in the thread are exactly what you think they are:Did anyone ever check the unc boards to see what kind of denial they are in or what bs excuses they are making?
Roy doesn't expect to be hit with anything, although if I recall correctly, wasn't it one of his players who brought the whole thing to light?
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...pect-unc-hoops-get-hit-way-all-ncaa-sanctions
Roy doesn't expect to be hit with anything, although if I recall correctly, wasn't it one of his players who brought the whole thing to light?
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...pect-unc-hoops-get-hit-way-all-ncaa-sanctions
Interesting. The subtext seems to be that UNC did not break current rules because no money changed hands, only bogus grades. And schools set their own academic standards, so the NCAA cannot review this under current rules.
It's just a further demonstration of the impossibility of the NCAA enforcing its own rules. They have neither the money, the mandate nor the authority to act as an accreditation body. If there is academic fraud taking place within the athletic department, that's one thing. If the University itself is in on it, you're stepping outside the NCAA's jurisdiction. Who is the NCAA to tell UNC the institution that they can't set up A's for no work sham classes? If UNC (more broadly, the State of North Carolina) wants to give out worthless degrees, that's pretty well their prerogative.
The proper authorities for a thing like that are the accreditation bodies, who did place UNC on probation, but in general have bigger fish to fry than some mickey-mouse nonsense with some athletes.
College sports is just fundamentally a system that cannot operate as designed. The pieces do not fit. Having the NCAA play an amorphous, mob justice, go-where-the-scandal-is hindsight machine seems manifestly unjust and the worst possible outcome to me personally, but it makes no less sense than any other way to shoehorn elite athletes into elite colleges to provide the labor for a billion dollar entertainment industry for free.
The solution is not to give the NCAA less power, but more power. Fewer rules, but put some real teeth behind the ones that are left.
Sadly, at 46 years of age, for the first time in my life, I'm starting to lose hope that teams like Illinois (who aren't blue bloods) will ever get a fair shake. And when I'm convinced that's the case, I'll probably lose interest in college sports. And for my lifetime, college basketball has been my favorite sport. I'm really bummed about it.
Interesting. The subtext seems to be that UNC did not break current rules because no money changed hands, only bogus grades. And schools set their own academic standards, so the NCAA cannot review this under current rules.