When do their fans start rioting and turning over news vans? Will Pearl Washington start carrying a cardboard cutout of Jim Boeheim everywhere he goes?
On a serious note RE: Syracuse
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I guarantee the NCAA could find something at a lot of schools
This is going to sound judgmental, but you can listen to the "student-athletes" and tell that they are not attending school or are being propped up. The NCAA either has to seriously clean things up or just acknowledge that it is running a semi-pro league for a lot of the players.
On the flip side, there are serious student-athletes (Cam, Jeter, and can't remember 3rd ACC academic) who are taking full advantage of their opportunity. Coaches have to love those types.
This is going to sound judgmental, but you can listen to the "student-athletes" and tell that they are not attending school or are being propped up. The NCAA either has to seriously clean things up or just acknowledge that it is running a semi-pro league for a lot of the players.
On the flip side, there are serious student-athletes (Cam, Jeter, and can't remember 3rd ACC academic) who are taking full advantage of their opportunity. Coaches have to love those types.
This was bad news for Syracuse ... but not just the sanctions themselves. The bad news is that the sanctions acknowledge that Cuse isn't a blue blood program in the eyes of the NCAA and the mega corps that actually run college sports. Otherwise, they'd have gotten nothing.
I'm no Cuse fan, but feel a bit of kinship with them, given history and similarities with Pitt. Sadly, that lately means we're both also-rans that have had occasional brief spurts of success in football, plus some legendary players, but usually, futility.
Of course, in basketball, they have gotten their holy grail championship that Pitt never could (ironically, that year with Melo is not mentioned among the years where 'lack of control' occurred). But otherwise Cuse is more or less like us in the past couple decades.
Plus, Cuse seems to have realistic fans that show up for good times, but lay low during the bad. In other words, not Cultists.
But of course we know all too well, this is BAD for success. And success is all that matters to the NCAA. It signals that Syracuse as big time enough to worry about. Thus, an easy mark to be made an example of.
I'm no Cuse fan, but feel a bit of kinship with them, given history and similarities with Pitt. Sadly, that lately means we're both also-rans that have had occasional brief spurts of success in football, plus some legendary players, but usually, futility.
Of course, in basketball, they have gotten their holy grail championship that Pitt never could (ironically, that year with Melo is not mentioned among the years where 'lack of control' occurred). But otherwise Cuse is more or less like us in the past couple decades.
Plus, Cuse seems to have realistic fans that show up for good times, but lay low during the bad. In other words, not Cultists.
But of course we know all too well, this is BAD for success. And success is all that matters to the NCAA. It signals that Syracuse as big time enough to worry about. Thus, an easy mark to be made an example of.
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