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NCAA lowers boom on Mizzou

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by swingline, Jan 31, 2019.

  1. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    If a student-nonathlete does this, there’s a good chance he or she gets expelled from the university for academic fraud.

    Fuck Mizzou. Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.
     
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  2. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    Same, 2much.

    I get that the penalties seem unfair when measured up against the North Carolina case.

    But a tutor did work and took tests for student-athletes in multiple sports. No amount of "we didn't know" and cooperation by Mizzou changes the fact that's wrong and should be punished.

    Mizzou officials may not have known - but I'm at least a little skeptical of that - but the student-athletes involved knew, and knew it was wrong. If the Mizzou Mafia and all the "woe is me" people around Columbia want to be pissed, blame them.
     
  3. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    KU probably not too smug today after the De Sousa ruling.
     
  4. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    Chapel Hill spent $21 million on attorneys and other such stuff, including attempting to openly discredit the NCAA. The NCAA claimed to have found nothing.

    Mizzou gets hammered.

    Stay classy, NCAA. And go to class, Chapel Hill.
     
  5. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Good.
    Fuck the school, and fuck college athletics.
     
  6. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    Not so sure about that as a blanket statement.

    In terms of the corruption and stuff we see? Sure.

    In terms of the number of kids who get swimming, cross country and tennis scholarships and trade their athletic skills for an education? By eradicating the NCAA, those go away, too. Which would suck.

    The model at the top is broken. But how does it get fixed without affecting the massive majority of pretty good the system does?
     
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  7. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    let them cheat, for football and basketball, its just a TV show for most Americans and a rooting sporting interest for alumni and communities. 99% of the kids playing basketball and football will never play professionally and most, the large majority use the education and connections for an opportunity at a productive adulthood. The ones who get a chance at a scholarship and blow it are doing the same thing and 100's of thousands non athletes do as well.
    So let capliari and Kryzyweski and Boeheim and Pitino and Izzo and everyone of the D1 cheaters have their cake. Earning 100's of millions exploiting the children and their well meaning but ignorant parents.

    Time for March Madness and Time to go Bowling
     
  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    The NCAA and schools have done little to fix the broken model except when they’ve been dragged kicking and screaming by the courts.
     
  9. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    Why would they? That would involve work. Too easy to continue pocketing millions and covering up the corruption.
     
  10. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Precisely. Big-time college sports is big business. The athletes are now treating it as such.
     
  11. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Higher education, period, is big business today.

    The NCAA tried to fight it in the courts in the 1980s. Tried and failed.

    Short of revoking Title IX, you're not paying football and men's basketball players alone. It won't work. So it'd have to be name/image/likeness perk.

    Which is fine.

    But any sort of monetary consideration will limit athlete mobility considerably.
     
  12. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    When these fuckers began talking about defunding everything, I was hoping like hell they would start with college football.
    Yes, I realize that needs to be done at the state level but it would be a meaningful start.
    Look at UAB as an example - great med school, has churned out a ton of product for the NFL - and the football program goes belly-up despite doing everything right.
    Then it has to pay schools like Tennessee for cancelled future games (like Tennessee needs the fuckin money).
    Blow it all up. It does not work in our society.
     
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