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<blockquote data-quote="sbillini" data-source="post: 1370658" data-attributes="member: 10496"><p>Tied with the one and only Bruce Weber. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/candid-coaches-who-are-the-high-major-coaches-who-dont-break-ncaa-rules/" target="_blank">https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/candid-coaches-who-are-the-high-major-coaches-who-dont-break-ncaa-rules/</a></p><p></p><p>This is a really sad situation and shouldn't happen. It's a bit of a fine line, because in some of these cases, it turns out to be a quarrel of some type and accusations are later pulled. It's hard to say when you punish a party (e.g. suspend) based on an accusation that hasn't yet been substantiated/investigated. You do it too early and it could affect a players career which, eventually turns out to be nothing. You do it too late, and it looks like impropriety. </p><p></p><p>But that's where institutional procedures become paramount, and it seems MSU severely lacked this in these situations (along with PSU, Baylor, etc.). You need to immediately hand the complaints over to an objective (or at least as objective as possible) party that has authority to do the investigation that it deems necessary. I don't think you necessarily make it public right away, but do so as soon as there's substantiation of the complaint. And you make sure that the coaches/DIA have no say as to how it proceeds. Then, on top of that and more importantly, you need a drastic culture change in these programs where athletes know, unequivocally, that they will be treated no different than any other student in these types of cases, and likely even a higher standard given the public nature of their roles. The coach should be able to truthfully say "if you get into a situation like this, I can't help you - because I have no control over what happens."</p><p></p><p>After that, let the dominoes fall as they may. I would like to think we at UofI have better controls than MSU - and we have some data points that show that (e.g. the Tate and Nunn cases - particularly Tate where things where accusations were later recanted. But I'm not naive enough to say that for sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sbillini, post: 1370658, member: 10496"] Tied with the one and only Bruce Weber. [url]https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/candid-coaches-who-are-the-high-major-coaches-who-dont-break-ncaa-rules/[/url] This is a really sad situation and shouldn't happen. It's a bit of a fine line, because in some of these cases, it turns out to be a quarrel of some type and accusations are later pulled. It's hard to say when you punish a party (e.g. suspend) based on an accusation that hasn't yet been substantiated/investigated. You do it too early and it could affect a players career which, eventually turns out to be nothing. You do it too late, and it looks like impropriety. But that's where institutional procedures become paramount, and it seems MSU severely lacked this in these situations (along with PSU, Baylor, etc.). You need to immediately hand the complaints over to an objective (or at least as objective as possible) party that has authority to do the investigation that it deems necessary. I don't think you necessarily make it public right away, but do so as soon as there's substantiation of the complaint. And you make sure that the coaches/DIA have no say as to how it proceeds. Then, on top of that and more importantly, you need a drastic culture change in these programs where athletes know, unequivocally, that they will be treated no different than any other student in these types of cases, and likely even a higher standard given the public nature of their roles. The coach should be able to truthfully say "if you get into a situation like this, I can't help you - because I have no control over what happens." After that, let the dominoes fall as they may. I would like to think we at UofI have better controls than MSU - and we have some data points that show that (e.g. the Tate and Nunn cases - particularly Tate where things where accusations were later recanted. But I'm not naive enough to say that for sure. [/QUOTE]
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