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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3666441, member: 27"]
That info is news to me.  Somehow missed that article. Thank you.
I am glad that the NCAA did not take wins away for the drug policy violations.  That is great.

I disagree with taking 45 wins away for a $300 payment for a speech, that was later repaid.  That is ridiculous.   Players routinely get minor benefits that tun out to be NCAA violations and are allowed to pay the money back and retain eligibility.  No one came to Syracuse because they would one day have a chance to drive to Oneida to give a speech at a WMCA to earn $300.

Yes, it shouldn’t have happened and yes, the money should be repaid.  Maybe the YMCA director or the NCA compliance officer, and maybe some of the basketball staff screwed up here and should be penaltized.

But it didn’t give SU a competitive advantage over other teams.  Forfeiting every game that player played for the rest of their career is insanely excessive.

I don’t know enough about the details of the alleged violations regarding tutoring to comment much on this.

I do know the NCAA took 0 victories away from UNC where they openly admitted most of the team committed academic fraud every season for two decades.   I strongly suspect whatever Syracuse did wasn’t nearly as egregious as what UNC did, did not go on for 20 years and did not affect almost every player on the team.

I know of no other school that has had 56 victories taken away because of tutoring issues.  Pretty sure this, like the YMCA speech thing, is completely unprecedented and that no school since Syracuse has ever had similar penalties imposed under similar circumstances.
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