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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 2285223"]
Nope.  My opinion on matters like this is consistent across the college sports landscape, but I appreciate your presumptuousness.

There's a stark difference between taking responsibility and being responsible.  The NCAA blamed JB because they have nobody else to blame and feel an urge to blame somebody for whatever arbitrary reason.  JB fell on the sword because that's the expectation.  That's taking responsibility.  JB couldn't have actively or passively done anything to avoid the infractions, at least the big ones, without possessing a magic time machine that would let him hire a different Director of Basketball Operations.  And even that wouldn't be a surefire fix.  That falls under the 'being responsible' category.  If you can't or couldn't change the things you were punished for, how can you be responsible?  It's like punishing your 16 year old for her younger brother breaking a lamp at grandma's house when the 16 year old wasn't even there.  Makes zero sense.

Like I said, establishing a culture of compliance is a fantasy land unicorn rainbow thing.  It's not a real thing real people do or can do in the college athletics landscape.  There are programs who commit infractions and get caught and programs who commit infractions and don't get caught.  That's it.  That's the realistic take.
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