A side note from the cuse situation, going back and reading the game thread of this one brought back some good memories...
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How Boeheim’s deep delusion led to ludicrous cheating defense
By Phil Mushnick
http://nypost.com/2015/03/09/how-boeheims-deep-delusion-led-to-ludicrous-cheating-defense/
In our courts of trial by jury, the defense’s pursuit to establish reasonable doubt ideally is preceded by the prosecution’s strong reasonable suspicion.
Yet, even with its guilt established, admitted and through the sentencing stage, there was still a “Yeah, but,” whine from Syracuse, an institution of higher education that for years has served as the front for Jim Boeheim’s basketball teams.
Even when it was time to admit to genuine shame and remorse and to vow commitment to integrity, it came out, “Why is the NCAA picking on us?”
That Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud would, in a childish rationalization of SU’s sins, knock the NCAA on the grounds it took so long to reveal the corruption that has pervaded Syracuse athletics, tells us the greatest sorrow lies in having been caught.
In a mass emailing, Syverud saw fit to note the NCAA’s investigation into SU’s violations took longer than MLB’s investigation of steroid use and the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. As if that’s relevant, as if that mitigates the university’s guilt.
Why not instead bash the investigators for being thorough? They revealed more than 10 years of steady, variety-packed law-breaking. Ninety-four report pages later, did the NCAA get it right? If not, say so, and be specific. Otherwise, either admit it or shut up!
Even when reality hits — when the gig’s up — those at the top of big-time college athletics and, of course, its cash-in-hand boosters and other wink-and-nod enablers and yahoos, fail basic reality checks.
You see, what Syracuse under Jim Boeheim has been sentenced for — academic misconduct, failure to follow drug-testing policies and impermissable booster activity — would, in our real world lives, be called a criminal conspiracy. We would be arrested and charged with racketeering, a pile of felonies for which we’d be facing hard time for a long time.
And while our lawyers awaited or suggested a plea deal, we wouldn’t be issuing public statements claiming the same system we so frequently violated always had it in for us.
And, instead of nine games, as per Boeheim’s suspension, maybe we’d get nine years.
Even the NCAA, for all its TV money greed and hypocrisies, still has both the muscle and credibility to be believed when it stated Syracuse’s/Boeheim’s conduct was “in violation of the most fundamental core values of the NCAA.”
But Boeheim, as do scores of big-time college coaches — public, taxpayer-funded colleges make coaches the highest-salaried employees in the state, often by millions of dollars — was afflicted by an inflated sense of financial-entitlement, position-entitlement and self-entitlement.
While some tell the cops, “Been waiting for ya; what took ya so long?” the self-deluded can’t be expected to take it well.
Last month, while Syracuse awaited sentencing, Boeheim provided a clue to his coaching success and sense of entitlement when he told a news conference he “doesn’t give a s—t” what his critics think of him.
It now seems both clear and years too late — and with his bio updated to include punishment for an assortment of fraud — he should have.
The rest of us? We’d be in jail, trying to make bail.
By Phil Mushnick
http://nypost.com/2015/03/09/how-boeheims-deep-delusion-led-to-ludicrous-cheating-defense/
In our courts of trial by jury, the defense’s pursuit to establish reasonable doubt ideally is preceded by the prosecution’s strong reasonable suspicion.
Yet, even with its guilt established, admitted and through the sentencing stage, there was still a “Yeah, but,” whine from Syracuse, an institution of higher education that for years has served as the front for Jim Boeheim’s basketball teams.
Even when it was time to admit to genuine shame and remorse and to vow commitment to integrity, it came out, “Why is the NCAA picking on us?”
That Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud would, in a childish rationalization of SU’s sins, knock the NCAA on the grounds it took so long to reveal the corruption that has pervaded Syracuse athletics, tells us the greatest sorrow lies in having been caught.
In a mass emailing, Syverud saw fit to note the NCAA’s investigation into SU’s violations took longer than MLB’s investigation of steroid use and the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. As if that’s relevant, as if that mitigates the university’s guilt.
Why not instead bash the investigators for being thorough? They revealed more than 10 years of steady, variety-packed law-breaking. Ninety-four report pages later, did the NCAA get it right? If not, say so, and be specific. Otherwise, either admit it or shut up!
Even when reality hits — when the gig’s up — those at the top of big-time college athletics and, of course, its cash-in-hand boosters and other wink-and-nod enablers and yahoos, fail basic reality checks.
You see, what Syracuse under Jim Boeheim has been sentenced for — academic misconduct, failure to follow drug-testing policies and impermissable booster activity — would, in our real world lives, be called a criminal conspiracy. We would be arrested and charged with racketeering, a pile of felonies for which we’d be facing hard time for a long time.
And while our lawyers awaited or suggested a plea deal, we wouldn’t be issuing public statements claiming the same system we so frequently violated always had it in for us.
And, instead of nine games, as per Boeheim’s suspension, maybe we’d get nine years.
Even the NCAA, for all its TV money greed and hypocrisies, still has both the muscle and credibility to be believed when it stated Syracuse’s/Boeheim’s conduct was “in violation of the most fundamental core values of the NCAA.”
But Boeheim, as do scores of big-time college coaches — public, taxpayer-funded colleges make coaches the highest-salaried employees in the state, often by millions of dollars — was afflicted by an inflated sense of financial-entitlement, position-entitlement and self-entitlement.
While some tell the cops, “Been waiting for ya; what took ya so long?” the self-deluded can’t be expected to take it well.
Last month, while Syracuse awaited sentencing, Boeheim provided a clue to his coaching success and sense of entitlement when he told a news conference he “doesn’t give a s—t” what his critics think of him.
It now seems both clear and years too late — and with his bio updated to include punishment for an assortment of fraud — he should have.
The rest of us? We’d be in jail, trying to make bail.
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Going back to the Tony "red" Bruin years Syracuse has been securing New York City players through an assortment of brokers and under-the -table payments. The Orange are no doubt the most corrupt of all Big East programs and as thorough as this NCAA investigation seems the amount of slime covering the program would take even more years to uncover. The degenerate Mr. & Mrs. Fine readily used Syracuse kids as a stable for their perverse pleasures. The pipeline of brokers on retainers was never fully explored. There is even more to this story than meets the eyes of justice and Syracuse is not alone. John Calipari has been giving the NCAA the finger for years and has turned an amateur college athletic program into an NBA feeder school with the tacit support of a publicly funded university and its boosters. Private 5 star athletic dorms with personal chefs, players with rolls of cash in their pockets, private jets, no-show classes, practices resembling dog and pony NBA try outs, coed-escorted recruiting visits, and the list goes on and on. North Carolina is still awaiting its verdict with the implications of embellished grades but I am sure there is much more, just not as overt as at Kentucky.
While many of us are critical of our staff on the recruiting side of the equation we also have to keep in mind what they are up against with these pimp coaches who employ pimps and whores to influence young teenage boys.
Lavin lost a key recruit in Rico Gathers, who could have changed Lavin's fortune at SJU, to a coach who provided personal escorts to family and players and it included more than just tours of the campus. The off line seducing of players includes greasing handlers and calls from blonde bimbos reminding recruits of the pleasures awaiting them. Jakarr Sampson was almost lost in the same manner until the campus recruiting whore used as bait was exposed on Facebook.
Competition for the top players is a dirty business few of the smaller, and especially Catholic colleges, can compete with the deep pocketed and corrupt institutions that see the basketball program as the be all and end all of their miserable small town existence. There is a reason why Kentucky players like to touch Calipari's well-gelled hair. They have been greased in so many ways before winning any games for the Wildcats.
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While many of us are critical of our staff on the recruiting side of the equation we also have to keep in mind what they are up against with these pimp coaches who employ pimps and whores to influence young teenage boys.
Lavin lost a key recruit in Rico Gathers, who could have changed Lavin's fortune at SJU, to a coach who provided personal escorts to family and players and it included more than just tours of the campus. The off line seducing of players includes greasing handlers and calls from blonde bimbos reminding recruits of the pleasures awaiting them. Jakarr Sampson was almost lost in the same manner until the campus recruiting whore used as bait was exposed on Facebook.
Competition for the top players is a dirty business few of the smaller, and especially Catholic colleges, can compete with the deep pocketed and corrupt institutions that see the basketball program as the be all and end all of their miserable small town existence. There is a reason why Kentucky players like to touch Calipari's well-gelled hair. They have been greased in so many ways before winning any games for the Wildcats.
[/quoteGoing back to the Tony "red" Bruin years Syracuse has been securing New York City players through an assortment of brokers and under-the -table payments. The Orange are no doubt the most corrupt of all Big East programs and as thorough as this NCAA investigation seems the amount of slime covering the program would take even more years to uncover. The degenerate Mr. & Mrs. Fine readily used Syracuse kids as a stable for their perverse pleasures. The pipeline of brokers on retainers was never fully explored. There is even more to this story than meets the eyes of justice and Syracuse is not alone. John Calipari has been giving the NCAA the finger for years and has turned an amateur college athletic program into an NBA feeder school with the tacit support of a publicly funded university and its boosters. Private 5 star athletic dorms with personal chefs, players with rolls of cash in their pockets, private jets, no-show classes, practices resembling dog and pony NBA try outs, coed-escorted recruiting visits, and the list goes on and on. North Carolina is still awaiting its verdict with the implications of embellished grades but I am sure there is much more, just not as overt as at Kentucky.
While many of us are critical of our staff on the recruiting side of the equation we also have to keep in mind what they are up against with these pimp coaches who employ pimps and whores to influence young teenage boys.
Lavin lost a key recruit in Rico Gathers, who could have changed Lavin's fortune at SJU, to a coach who provided personal escorts to family and players and it included more than just tours of the campus. The off line seducing of players includes greasing handlers and calls from blonde bimbos reminding recruits of the pleasures awaiting them. Jakarr Sampson was almost lost in the same manner until the campus recruiting whore used as bait was exposed on Facebook.
Competition for the top players is a dirty business few of the smaller, and especially Catholic colleges, can compete with the deep pocketed and corrupt institutions that see the basketball program as the be all and end all of their miserable small town existence. There is a reason why Kentucky players like to touch Calipari's well-gelled hair. They have been greased in so many ways before winning any games for the Wildcats.
Syracuse Post Standard this morning, headline "I'm not going anywhere"
The position of Syracuse University and Jim Boeheim are adamant, they are going to appeal and expect to be exonerated. Wow!
[/quoteGoing back to the Tony "red" Bruin years Syracuse has been securing New York City players through an assortment of brokers and under-the -table payments. The Orange are no doubt the most corrupt of all Big East programs and as thorough as this NCAA investigation seems the amount of slime covering the program would take even more years to uncover. The degenerate Mr. & Mrs. Fine readily used Syracuse kids as a stable for their perverse pleasures. The pipeline of brokers on retainers was never fully explored. There is even more to this story than meets the eyes of justice and Syracuse is not alone. John Calipari has been giving the NCAA the finger for years and has turned an amateur college athletic program into an NBA feeder school with the tacit support of a publicly funded university and its boosters. Private 5 star athletic dorms with personal chefs, players with rolls of cash in their pockets, private jets, no-show classes, practices resembling dog and pony NBA try outs, coed-escorted recruiting visits, and the list goes on and on. North Carolina is still awaiting its verdict with the implications of embellished grades but I am sure there is much more, just not as overt as at Kentucky.
While many of us are critical of our staff on the recruiting side of the equation we also have to keep in mind what they are up against with these pimp coaches who employ pimps and whores to influence young teenage boys.
Lavin lost a key recruit in Rico Gathers, who could have changed Lavin's fortune at SJU, to a coach who provided personal escorts to family and players and it included more than just tours of the campus. The off line seducing of players includes greasing handlers and calls from blonde bimbos reminding recruits of the pleasures awaiting them. Jakarr Sampson was almost lost in the same manner until the campus recruiting whore used as bait was exposed on Facebook.
Competition for the top players is a dirty business few of the smaller, and especially Catholic colleges, can compete with the deep pocketed and corrupt institutions that see the basketball program as the be all and end all of their miserable small town existence. There is a reason why Kentucky players like to touch Calipari's well-gelled hair. They have been greased in so many ways before winning any games for the Wildcats.
Syracuse Post Standard this morning, headline "I'm not going anywhere"
The position of Syracuse University and Jim Boeheim are adamant, they are going to appeal and expect to be exonerated. Wow!
Good. Appeal it and keep the story alive. And memo to the NCAA, while Syracuse is appealing, keep an eye out for them. It isn't like they won't try to cheat again.
A program as self absorbed and entitled as that one, can't help themselves. It's in their nature.
Frank, this will be the result.
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/coll...ege-sports-turns-appeal-usc-sanctions-reduced
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/coll...ege-sports-turns-appeal-usc-sanctions-reduced