At the risk of moving further into wrong-boardness, based on my understanding of the violation, I do not understand the sanction received (vacated wins).
To my understanding (which could be wrong), Syracuse's policy required three failed drug tests before a player would be suspended. The violation was that JB was supposed to contact parents or legal guardians in cases of a failed drug test, which he in practice would only do based on his own discretion.
I believe I heard that no player had ever actually failed three tests, so while I can see the need for the NCAA to provide some form of sanction for the school to enforce a policy if they chose to have one, how can vacated wins based on the use of ineligible players be it?
To what standard would these players have been ineligible? Not the NCAA's as they did not require testing, and not to Syracuse's own policy.
Punish the coaches or folks within the departments responsible for the enforcement, but to vacate wins just doesn't seem to make sense to me.
