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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1650523, member: 1969"]
This idea is flawed.   You are not creating any disincentive against the activity by the schools -- you are actually encouraging them to cheat if the penalties are purely financial.   They will just cheat more and if they get caught, they will pay to play.    Being suspended from a few tournaments, or facing scholarship losses, are much more harsh penalties to the blue bloods and other elite programs..

I am getting tired of the "poor student" arguments as well.   Not because I don't feel bad for the players -- I do.   But they are not the only stakeholders, nor are they the major stakeholders.   ,   The schools are even bigger stakeholders, and we can't let them off the hook easily because it impacts current players.

[B]Here is my solution  -- ESPN can glam it up and call it Penalty Week.[/B]

- The week following the NCAA tournament (around April 10)
      1) All NCAA penalties they have handed out in the past year get announced (or those that have already been announced) become effective
      2) If schools that are being investigated (with no conclusion) want to show responsibility they can still Self-Ban.   But it can only be done this week.

If a school is banned from the NCAA tournament for the next season, or a school gives itself a self ban, all players become immediately eligible to transfer without transfer penalty.

In this way the institutions are still punished and the players at least can go elsewhere if they desire.  It's unfortunate for some of the players because they are happy at the school and will not want to leave.   But at least the option was given to them.

****** I also want to say this is not an acceptance of some of the ridiculous penalties the NCAA has issued.   That is a totally separate issue in itself.
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