Pretty sure Jay Wright was there on one of the phone card scandals. It's hard to keep track of which one, though.vutomcat wrote:When you have to reference an issue (Porter) from over 40 years ago you might be a hater.GannonFan wrote:
Howard Porter and vacated NCAA wins, illegal mass use of free phone cards, doing cocaine prior to a Final Four game. Glass houses, man, glass houses. There's plenty of bad actors in college sports. Think of it this way, though, we're all spared the potential drudgery of seeing a merely average Syracuse team play post season ball this year. We're all winners in that regard then.
But serioulsy, don't you think the coaches should be the ones that pay the price? It would be more effective than self imposed sanctions in a year that they might not have even made the tourney.
Oh, I agree, if the coaches did the wrong doing, they should be the ones to suffer, whether it be suspensions or fines. I do think the purposes of sanctions on post season play and the like are to hit at the boosters who may work behind the scenes to cause the violations - the biggest hit to them is to have their precious favorite team not make the tourney.
The 'Cuse thing is kinda messed up - they knew sanctions would come eventually, and they've always planned for this year to be the one to take the hit - good class coming in next year. Because the NCAA's been dragging their feet 'Cuse was worried that it would spill over into next year, so that's why they voluntarily took the hit this year. I mean, certainly don't want a sanction to hurt if you can avoid it hurting.
