The NCAA needs to do a "Mitchell Report"

[Sean Miller Fan]

Remember the steroid era in baseball and the study George Mitchell conducted to get people to name names? Steroids were so rampant that this was needed to clean up the game and its been pretty clean ever since.

Cheating is so rampant and ingrained in both football and basketball that the NCAA has to hire someone similar to conduct a similar study. They have to take this so seriously that they must take special measures to protect whistleblowing assistant coaches. Nothing substantive could come out of this without their cooperation. I would go so far as to say that a cooperating assistant coach would be guaranteed an assistant job by the NCAA for 10 years. So if an assistant snitched and applied for 5 jobs, 1 school would be required to hire him. Not sure how all the details would work but just like the street game, these assistants don't snitch. Its code. But for this, extraordinary protection must be given to them for the good of the game.

This has to be done for basketball AND football. I think what you'd find is what we all expected, most programs, probably even schools like Pitt cheated to some degree.

The NCAA also has to get rid of their "too big to fail" mentality. PSU should have gotten the death penalty. Same with Miami football, UNC basketball, and now Louisville basketball. Extremely harsh measures must be taken. No more 1-year tourney ban or missing a minor bowl game wrist slaps.

 

[levance2]

The problem is that the NCAA is not run like a pro sport. There is no fascist commissioner to impose his will. There is no owners vs player union. The members (coaches and ADs) vote for the rules they want, and those people aren't going to vote for things that are against their own interests.

It would be really easy for the NCAA to put out a decree that no apparel company logo can be shown on game jerseys or shoes, but the members would flip shtt because they make a bunch of money to do that. Is Pitt going to give up millions in revenue from Nike just because Louisville is bribing recruits? No.

 

[Cathedral Lawn Frisbee]

He now has the times since he is no longer babysitting up at Enabler U.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

The other thing to consider is that the Mitchell report was pretty much a joke. If the NCAA were to do a "Mitchell Report" that would mean having someone like Frank Beamer write a report that comes down hard on Virginia while completely ignoring anything and everything at Virginia Tech.

Also, the notion that baseball (or any other sport) is "pretty clean" is pretty clearly wrong, unless you have a distorted notion of what "pretty clean" means.