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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 2581963, member: 628"]
I almost stopped reading when this quote was in the 2nd paragraph of the story I read...

[I][B]"We need to put the college back in college basketball,"[/B] commission chairman and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday at a news conference in Indianapolis after the independent panel released a detailed 60-page report. [/I]

Puh-leeze.  The NCAA has an eleven [I]BILLION [/I]dollar TV contract for March Madness.  The notion of this sport being anything other than a massive, quasi-professional revenue generator is at best naive, and at worst highly cynical.

But hey, I remember how clean college hoops was before the one-and-done rule was implemented.  Don't you all?  No recruiting violations, no paying players under the table, it was a land of unicorns and rainbows I tellz ya.

On a more serious note, the only thing in their recommendations that I think would make a meaningful difference is adopting draconian penalties for coaches.  I would expand that to ADs as well.  I get that there shouldn't be lifetime bans for a coach when a player gets a free meal or whatever.  But when a guy like Bruce Pearl is allowed back in the game... when Rick Pitino can be interviewing for jobs this spring... it's insanity.  Set a high threshold, adjudicate it with third parties with substantial legal bonafides, and harshly punish the coaches and ADs who knowingly tolerate meaningful rules violations.  I bet you'd see things get cleaned up pretty quick if coaches and ADs knew they'd be banned for life.
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