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[QUOTE="CsonkaStash, post: 2985370, member: 7089"]
I completely disagree with this.  Your job is to win...Not to necessarily play by the rules, if you can win by playing by the rules even better.  I am curious how many whistleblowing local papers there have been in College Basketball or Football.  The post standard initiated the investigation albeit after Wolffs book

Again the Post Standard was the whistleblower here...I do not excuse the program for their indiscretions at all but if you read the articles the Post Standard was also spinning it to be worse.    Believe me the Rob Johnson stuff (was bad but he helped other schools too...what happened to them), boosters money, Bill Rapp, it broke all the rules.  They deserved punishment and received it but the Post Standard sensationalized it also and made issues bigger than they were to add to the story.

Discounted rental cars, really, meals at Grimaldis (allowed on game day but some happened the day after), a grounds foreman taking players out to the dinner.  Post Standard even dug into families who players knew during and before hand.  If a player ate a someone's house, the Post Standard described it as impermissible benefits.  Empire games and staying at the dorms that they didn't know they cannot do...Post Standard published that too.

I am not apologizing for the program...I actually think they got off pretty light in 92 but I think the Post Standard tried to make it even bigger than it was.  Either way they helped open the door for UConn and their mission succeeded.  The Post Standard dug into ever angle of the program and not surprising found major and minor violations at every turn.  They reported them all.  Even the $100 pick up game bet which was a joke.
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