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Message: [QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 1583338, member: 906"] Yes. Broken record still. The NCAA original penalties, and the fixed appeal and the loss of a extra scholorship because the appeal took to long are rediculous. They even said they were the most severe penalties ever in college ball and they weren't even over recruiting violations or booster money but kids smoking alittle marjiuana and passing all ncaa saction drug tests just not university ones. Syracuse University is right down the road from wood stock central NY hosts much of the rock and roll hall of fame over the last 50 years. Meanwhile snoop dogg and bill walton represent the ncaa in a classy marjiuana smoking way and underage drinking doesn't rule players inelgible for a entire season. The booster money involved in our investigation was 2 players totaling in 3,200 for working a scoreboard at the ymca pathetic, and its clear someone forced us into self reporting to them. Paterno, Dean Smith, OSU, USC, whoever else you throw in that list, penalties are nothing in comparison. And those were over illegal recruiting and academics. They loss 0 wins and if your going to take wins you have to take losses to. 100 wins is 5 entire seasons of basketball that is down right dirty and ludicrous. Shameful. The thing about the Bernie Fine thing is it took place off campus and had no correlation to the basketball program, yet they played it up like it did. It wasn't handled well at all. What happened between one mans social life off campus should have stayed off campus. As far as the vacation he went on part what the hell are parents doing sending their kids to travel with grown strangers and sleeping in the room with them? Bernie Fine was a adult under no way should JB have stated another adult sleep in the room with Bernie to watch him with a youth. Then this year Diagne gets ruled inelgible despite being a outstanding prep school student in america for two years but got ruled inelgible because of a vendeta over a 9th grade class in senegal. Senegal is 141st of 180 countries in the world academically the average years kids go to school there is 4.5. On top of that we found out that Obokoh was ruled inelgible to redshirt the year before but there is a kid at Boston College who will be a year and a half older then him as a senior then Obokoh will be. Translation if he got the redshirt year he would be 6 months younger. Whoever ruled on Obokoh belongs in jail not on a ncaa committee. JB is not responsible for 2 of his players (not recruits) going to a party on the weekend or working a ymca scoreboard and earning what totalled 3,200 hardly anything. They dug back 10 years to find that on top of it because they wanted and were hoping to find something. The Ncaa, is corrupt punishes who it chooses and its obvious. Excuse me while I go vomit while nobody does anyting about this crap that is hurting our program. 100 wins and no losses taken is a HUGE deal on paper, even with one scholorship returned. we are the 5th to 6th winningest program of all time last I saw those 100 wins while not taking losses drops us down that list and thats a filthy dirty vandetta by the ncaa and needs to get fixed immediately. nuff said. [/QUOTE]

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