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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 2224747, member: 652"]
Don't disagree with you. However as we saw with the Penn State affair. If you claim the NCAA violated due process and file a law suit against them in Federal Court in the schools backyard it can get the NCAA to back down.

The NCAA totally screwed SU just because somebody IMO had an axe to grind with Jim Boeheim. Our school lawyers did not negotiate a good resolution for Syracuse.
The violations we were convicted of minuscule and it's laughable we even got a postseason ban. For 2 players getting no show jobs at the YMCA, Fab Melo had a paper written for him by a tutor, and we had players fail Syracuse self-imposed drug test.

To these violations I would say the school maybe should have lost 2-4 scholarships total, been put on probation for a couple of years and had the tutors fired, and relationship with the YMCA severed. Instead we got treated like habitual offenders who have a misdeamnor turned into an automatic felony.

Our lawyers we were awful. Especially when we changed tops of the administration and athletic department. Then for no reason the NCAA taxed probation on to the football team for no good reason either but just because they could.

This stuff was a complete witch hunt to go after Jim Boeheim who may be surly and lax but these violations were a joke to get the penalties we got.

We lost more basketball scholarships than Ohio State did for football players getting tattoos for free, or Baylor did for a coach covering up a players murder.

We should have sued but we took our punishment. Now look at Louisville's lost scholarships or what UNC will likely get off easier.
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