He might be an ahole, but he nails it.

[DeefromAtlanta]

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[AuricGoldfinger]

I did think it was humorous to see Jim Larranaga subtly flash a roll of cash before whipping Duke tonight.

[MrMemorial]

Boeheim is right. Look at Villanova, unranked and 3 games below .500 while Southern Miss is 21-4 and Florida Atlantic is 22-2.

SMU is 8-15 after going 24-9 last season. The NCAA burning the rulebook has turned it into the wild west.

[dore74]

Agree with Boeheim. Not sure that the genie ever gets back in the bottle. I'm too old to ever get used to colleges hiring, in essence, minor league pro teams to wear the college colors. (I did get used to some colleges hiring semi-pro teams.)

[charlestonalum]

in another thread I referred to it as "semi-pro" league: that is what the SEC is for sure and I suppose much of college basketball. Left without rules the game will devolve into whoever has the most money wins - I know there has always been cheating, but this is now legal and it puts the smaller self-respecting academic places at a huge disadvantage. We are seeing the game we all grew up with destroyed in real time before our eyes.

[PeteFox]

Agree.

But you've got to feel sorry for Kentucky. They were so good at cheating, and now it's legal. They no longer have an advantage over teams that tried to follow the rules...they have to compete for players on a level playing field.

[OldDude]

Agree.

But you've got to feel sorry for Kentucky. They were so good at cheating, and now it's legal. They no longer have an advantage over teams that tried to follow the rules...they have to compete for players on a level playing field.

[Foreverhopeful]

Agree.

But you've got to feel sorry for Kentucky. They were so good at cheating, and now it's legal. They no longer have an advantage over teams that tried to follow the rules...they have to compete for players on a level playing field.

Post of the day.

[charlestonalum]

Agree.

But you've got to feel sorry for Kentucky. They were so good at cheating, and now it's legal. They no longer have an advantage over teams that tried to follow the rules...they have to compete for players on a level playing field.

love it and UT in football

[alathIN]

The NCAA burning the rulebook has turned it into the wild west.

Quibbling, but the NCAA didn't do this voluntarily. They lost some big court cases and were set to lose more. There was no legal justification for their old way of operating and the courts finally caught up to them.

It's possible they could have reformed their model themselves, to something legally defensible.
But you have to remember the NCAA is its member schools. They had a really sweet setup going and no motivation to change it, so the courts imposed it on them.

I agree it's a mess. But the NCAA didn't just randomly up and decide "let's dismantle our cash cow today."

[Dorefrom88]

Agree.

But you've got to feel sorry for Kentucky. They were so good at cheating, and now it's legal. They no longer have an advantage over teams that tried to follow the rules...they have to compete for players on a level playing field.

Does this mean fewer NCAA sanctions on Cleveland State?

RIP Coach Tarkanian