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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1841137, member: 40"] Because the NCAA wasn't going to walk away from an eight year investigation without dropping the hammer, and our academic violation stuff with Fab was the worst of the minor infractions they could hang our penalties' hat on. Even the marijuana stuff was merely an internal compliance infraction. Shame on us for implementing a stupid, non-required policy and then not having the smarts to follow the simple protocol we ourselves had documented. But at the end of the day, not a huge deal. The YMCA stuff was circumstantial, and not really associated with the university directly. For better or for worse, the Fab stuff gave the NCAA the string that they could pull, and use it as a connective thread with which to bind all of our minor, unrelated infractions into a bigger "lack of institutional control" bundle. Given how harsh our penalties were, precedent would suggest that UNC [U]should[/U] get exponentially more severe sanctions. But they won't, because the NCAA is arbitrary and capricious, and a toothless lion that only situationally chooses who to go after. This inherent hypocrisy has exposed them as the governance frauds that they are, and tightens the noose around their necks from the standpoint of public perception of their legitimacy. Letting UNC skate might be what's "best" for the NCAA, but it isn't going to fly amongst member institutions or the sports media. We just have to sit back and watch the NCAA slit their own throats and watch the mayhem ensue. And in the big scheme of things, having UNC get off easy is probably what's best for SU, in terms of getting our sanctions summarily reduced [long term]. Its just too bad that we were made an example of-- our penalties certainly did NOT fit our crimes -- and had to take such a negative PR hit. [/QUOTE]

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