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Topic: Sanctions for the "Other Miami"?

Topic: Sanctions for the "Other Miami"?

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OhioCatFan
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Sanctions for the "Other Miami"?

Posted: 8/8/2012 12:05:47 PM

Given the current "get tough" policy at the NCAA, how do you think the association will handle the evolving scandal at Miami (Fla.) ? I know it's too early to say with any certainty because the investigation isn't finished, but in terms of what's known now, do you think it's likely that the Hurricanes will gets some form of death penalty or something close?

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Victory
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RE: Sanctions for the "Other Miami"?

Posted: 8/8/2012 12:51:51 PM

I hope the NCAA starts dropping the hammer. How often do sanctions really hurt a big time program? The boosters just donate more money and ride through it and everyone thinks that they will just pick up right where they left off.

We essentially now have agents running fake prep schools. AAAU youth sports not existing to aide kids in developing skills such as teamwork but existing to funnel kids to certain Universities. Communities view the labors of their "Student-Athletes" not as something they go to support the kids in their efforts win or lose but there to entertain them. People often don't even support their local high school or alma-mater but attend "big-time" high school game. The big high schools recruit from the little ones. These kids quit working at academics at a very young age while the smaller schools struggle more to pay their athletics bills.

I can remember back when I was in high-school in the late 1980s where the OHSAA made it illegal to show any high-school game live on TV except for the state title games. They knew that if they let high-school sports become big business that it would defeat the reason why they ever existed in the first place. Somewhere along the way there too someone decided to trade integrity for money.

I think one step in starting to clean this up is in the NCAA deciding that if you decide to associate yourself with kids with questionable backgrounds - the ones whose lives are being run by agents where you know they almost certainly aren't really eligible from either an academic or amaturism standpoint - and knowingly and willfully take the risk that nobody will ever be able to prove anything to that regard or if the University coaches or admins know, or clearly should know with any effort, that an extensive pay for play scheme is occuring is to just put the program back in the stone age where nobody associated with the program will be alive to see it competitive again. Go ahead and announce that now before hand but it needs to be done.

Last Edited: 8/8/2012 12:53:17 PM by Victory

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RE: Sanctions for the "Other Miami"?

Posted: 8/8/2012 12:56:32 PM

..and that it happens here then I will be all that much more adamant about it rather than apologetic.

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RE: Sanctions for the "Other Miami"?

Posted: 8/8/2012 7:26:08 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

I certainly hope they do. The other Fiami has been dinged by the NCAA too many times, but they apparently still don't get it. Pull the plug on 'em.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

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