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[QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 1583357, member: 2350"]
The NCAA strikes. Again.

This time the organization has completely outdone itself, with the NCAA's Infractions Appeals Committee altering its initial decision on [URL='http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/183/syracuse-orange']Syracuse[/URL] coach Jim Boeheim's suspension and ruling that it begin immediately instead of at the outset of ACC play.

Let's begin with the timing.

Boeheim appealed the ruling -- one that came down on both him and the Syracuse program for academic fraud issues -- on March 20, two weeks after the school received the infractions report. A Committee on Infractions response didn't come until May 28, and Boeheim didn't get in front of the appeals committee until Oct. 5.

The mea culpa finally came on Dec. 3, and [I]should [/I]have read:

[I]"Dear Mr. Boeheim, sometimes we make easy decisions far more complicated than they need to be, and this time we took it to a new level."[/I]

Instead, it read the following:

[I]"The Appeals Committee determined that the NCAA Committee on Infractions 'abused its discretion' by directing the suspension be served during conference play, because Coach Boeheim was not directly involved in the underlying violations of the case. The Appeals Committee determined the nine-game suspension may apply to non-conference games and be served immediately."[/I]

How long does it take to figure out that you screwed up?

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[URL]http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/14282145/ncaa-continues-make-mess-discipline-syracuse-coach-jim-boeheim[/URL]
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