NCAA gives Arizona hilariously light penalties

[MNJay]

To be fair, we're talking about banners. Sewn and printed cloth. I know the original Gopher title banners hold almost as much notoriety as the Lost Ark of the Covenant in this neck of the woods, but we could make do and have some sewn within a day. No one would know the wiser...except for the Indiana Jones types.

Hey this is a great idea!!! And not nearly as difficult to do. We simply hire a company to make our own Gopher banners & trophies. That we proudly display on campus for everyone to see...like it should be.

We can have multiple copies. If they get confiscated, another one appears somewhere else. Display some in Dinkytown on private property. Stick the bumper-sticker version on administrators' cars, with glue.

 

[RockChalk]

Just cheat, everyone. Why not?


Go Gophers!!

From Matt Norlander, CBS college BB guy.
In a notable about-face, in deciding to not suspend Miller for any games, the IRP, which operates as an independent arm from the NCAA, opted to not follow through on the NCAA's assertion. In fact, it rejected it.

Don't be upset with the NCAA be upset with the IRP. Their record to date has shown that they do not drop the hammer like the NCAA would.

 

[Plato]

The NCAA does not have subpoena power so it cannot demand testimony under oath and in this case had to wait until a grand jury was over and use testimony the FBI acquired.
I remember there was a taped phone conversation in which Miller complained how what he offered to pay a player to come to AZ was trumped by some other program.
He also had a clause in his contract that if he were to fired for cause he would still get his buyout. So he must have known what bad things he had done.
With NIL the sin of paying players to come to a program is not there anymore.
It is time to get over the sins that sunk the MN program. They were serious and the NCAA had a willing witness.
Comparing that episode to what other programs did is futile.

 

[MNJay]

It is time to get over the sins that sunk the MN program. They were serious and the NCAA had a willing witness.
Comparing that episode to what other programs did is futile.

What we did wasn't serious. It gave us no competitive advantage. Unlike the major cheating that other schools do with no consequences.

 

[Holy Man]

What we did wasn't serious. It gave us no competitive advantage. Unlike the major cheating that other schools do with no consequences.

I’m not in favor of the duplicitous actions of the NCAA, but suggesting that academic fraud and transcript fudging that made and kept players eligible didn’t give us an advantage is simply wrong.

That’s the whole scandal of UNCheat. Players would not been eligible without the fake classes. The cheating won games for them.

 

[AZgopherGirl]

The NCAA does not have subpoena power so it cannot demand testimony under oath and in this case had to wait until a grand jury was over and use testimony the FBI acquired.
I remember there was a taped phone conversation in which Miller complained how what he offered to pay a player to come to AZ was trumped by some other program.
He also had a clause in his contract that if he were to fired for cause he would still get his buyout. So he must have known what bad things he had done.
With NIL the sin of paying players to come to a program is not there anymore.
It is time to get over the sins that sunk the MN program. They were serious and the NCAA had a willing witness.
Comparing that episode to what other programs did is futile.

this part is actually not true

 

[MNJay]

I’m not in favor of the duplicitous actions of the NCAA, but suggesting that academic fraud and transcript fudging that made and kept players eligible didn’t give us an advantage is simply wrong.

That’s the whole scandal of UNCheat. Players would not been eligible without the fake classes. The cheating won games for them.

Most students 'cheat'...have help, have access to files of previous homework, etc. That's why most serious classes grade mostly on tests rather than homework.

Our players didn't cheat so much more than normal students.

And our school didn't set up fake classes for them.

AND WE DIDN'T BUY PLAYERS.