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Message: [QUOTE="Cuse_MN, post: 228094, member: 1559"] The anguish sports fans face over wins and losses can't be compared to life and death issues, people struggling to feed their families, etc. I highly doubt there are many who think otherwise. Life issues are and always will be more important than wins, which is why I disagree with your point about being unable to get pampered athletes to live up to the standards of a program. Fab was arrested for allegedly getting physical with a woman, which happened multiple times according to her. After that incident, he should have been put on notice that there was zero tolerance for anything that didn't fit JB's standards. If it was so well know by the coach and insiders that he had checked out, wasn't attending class and generally didn't give a shiit, send him a message and suspend him or kick him off the team. Not the school, the coach. Coaches can and do set standards of conduct higher than the school they coach for. I don't know what happened with the first episode of ineligibility, but it was a perfect opportunity to show to all current and future players than wins and losses take a backseat to life standards. Say goodbye then and send a message. Utah kicked its senior, leading scorer off the team this year for repeatedly being late to practice and sleeping in class. Some coaches can and do deal with the problems you lay out. I think the Fine issue and strong start probably made it more difficult for JB to make a statement by kicking a prominent player off the team. As fans, we all would have hated to have seen it happen, but I would question how JB or any coach could play the kid so much given he was apparently openly mocking the program standards. Not only does that not teach a life lesson to a kid who needs it, but it sends a message to all the kids on the team that wins are more important than standards of conduct. We can debate what is considered high major D-1, but its a disservice to a lot of kids to say the entire roster of all those programs are full of kids that don't care about academics. Certainly less than 5% of the high major D-1 rosters will have any chance at going pro. Only eight teams in this years NCAA lie below the current APR standard and I would consider UCONN the only high D-1 program in the mix. Based on the future 930 APR standard, 13 teams in this years tourney would be ineligible for postseason participation. There are just two I would consider high major D-1 based on recent past... UCONN and Syracuse. Argue with the methodology all you want, its applied consistently across all schools. Can't imagine knowingly letting Fab or others mock the program standards this year is going to help our APR going forward. [URL="http://www.tidesport.org/Grad%20Rates/2012%20Men's%20Basketball%20Tournament%20Teams%20Study.pdf"]http://www.tidesport.org/Grad Rates/2012 Men's Basketball Tournament Teams Study.pdf[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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