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Message: [QUOTE="Hoov50, post: 1584295, member: 1056"] I blame Newhouse... Before you all stop reading let me get to my point. If you go to any of the best sports oriented news companies in the country you are going to be constantly running into Syracuse University graduates. As they should be all of these graduates have a great deal of pride not only in their University, but in their University's athletic teams. Other lesser employees don't like hearing about Syracuse University and relish in the opportunity to report bad news about Syracuse University. Again, before you stop reading and judge this as nonsensical, wait for me to finish my thoughts. When North Carolina and Louisville were discovered to have allegedly committed much worse offenses this is only on the news for a few days or a week at most. To anybody not wearing powder blue it is fairly obvious that North Carolina has a decades long track record of literally inventing courses for athletes to take. Hell, I think I even read that one of the college's deans was technically an employee of the athletic department. This is reported on only when something new comes to light and even then only makes into the last few minutes of Sportscenter, typically after the "Not Top 10." To anybody not living in Louisville, it is fairly obvious that there is pretty damning evidence that an employee in the athletic department was paying for strippers, sorry exotic dancers, who were nothing more than glorified hookers to "spend time" with visiting recruits. Again this was on ESPN for a week, maybe two, and now has been completely swept under the rug. People, id est jealous employees who couldn't get into Newhouse, seem to love digging at their obviously, more intelligent and successful co-workers who were able to get into Newhouse. Making sure that the news about Syracuse's minor transgressions and the Bernie Fine case (which admittedly was mishandled at times) is a great way to stick it to their co-workers. The Bernie Fine case probably deserved a good chunk of air time, since if true it involved the harming (to put it mildly) of children. However, the reporting on Syracuse not enforcing their voluntarily created University drug policy or the reporting on players allegedly getting improper academic assistance stretched on far too long. These things seemed like they scrolled across the "Bottom Line" for months not just days like the UNC and Louisville cases. Once the Syracuse "case" was brought to the media forefront, the pea-brained NCAA had no choice but to flex their undoubtedly PED enhanced muscles in an effort to look strong. To any logical person it is mind-blowing to see someone who was acknowledged as to having no knowledge of a situation be punished for said situation. That would be like firing a manager of a restaurant because someone was not working hard during a different shift. It's complete and utter nonsense, which is what the NCAA is in general, look at the who Diagne situation. I am now copying in a previous post about the Diagne situation (since you have made it this far, I figure I have a captive audience for my continued shenanigans). My next rant/statement is bleeding into the world of education in our country so if you aren't interested stop reading now. The fact that the NCAA, full of bureaucratic idiots, somehow gets to judge the validity of high school coursework is asinine to begin with. Even with the "Common Core Learning Standards" each state is essentially left on its own when it comes to what is done in terms of education. How can a state like South Carolina (which for a long period of time, maybe even still allows anyone with a college degree in any subject to teach) be compared with a state like New York (where teachers are required to earn a Masters degree). I am sure there are plenty of great and crappy teachers in each state, but I'd be willing to bet that teachers who went to college to become teachers are using different methods than teachers who went to college for other reasons. My point being that coursework across this country is inherently different in both requirements and rigor and will continue to be different until there is a national week by week or day by day curriculum that every school district is required to follow. This even holds true in a single high school. How do we know that the 11th grade English class taught by two different teachers in the same high school is the same? Even with a set curriculum teachers can approach topics and teach those topics in different ways. My last point is, if we can't truly ensure that courses taken in different areas of our own country are the same how can the NCAA even attempt to judge courses from other countries?! That's the end of my rant. Ahh, never mind, it's Jim Boeheim's curtness with the media that led to all of this not Newhouse... [/QUOTE]

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