2022-2023 NCAA Basketball Thread Basketball • Page 113

Haha some post-SB tweet just reappeared on my timeline just like this

 

So what celebrity is gonna die this week to keep proving our current shitty simulation is in "fuck it all" mode?

 

And I said kids... then you brought up the program. We aren't speaking about the same thing, I guess. These kids shouldn't be held accountable for the adults running the program before they showed up.

 

lol.

At least you admit to your cheating wins. I can respect the "we cheated and won whatever" way more than the clowns pretending they didn't.(Congrats. Sincerely.)

 

The only sport that hasn't gone against my rooting has been men's tennis since the Cubs won. Darkest timeline.

 

Uh they are still running the program. lol. They were never even held accountable.

 

mark emmert is the worst.

 

So this means the Warriors sweep into the finals for a boring NBA playoffs. Feels predestined.

 

I was unaware of this whole blame the Cubs thing of recent sports (and political) trends till now lol.

 

The celing was the roof

 

I mean, yeah they broke rules so you can call them cheaters if you want. But you'll never convince me that every other major program isn't doing the same or similar things for their big-sport athletes. And while that doesn't make it acceptable for them or anyone else to do, I can live with it because I think it's a joke we consider these kids "student-athletes". That phrase is a sham in itself. They aren't recruited there for their academics. They are there to make the school money.

 

Fuck unc fucking cheaters need to be banned from all post season play across all sports next year

 

wow, you guys are so hot. What happened to Chorus

 

Well, then they should be removed.

The NCAA governance is bullshit, anyways. I don't really care anymore with their indentured servant model, so I just enjoy the product on the field and support the players. If some kid that should be in the pros takes paper classes, who gives a shit? Pay the players and I'll feel differently.

 

Me when the other team they just played for the championship isn't doing it.

 

Salty

 

Not salty it's the truth. How can you not punish them? If you don't it proves you can cheat and get away with it. Creating fake classes and fake grades to keep kids that are not doing good on the teams. I'm sure other schools do it but they don't get caught like unc did

 

I definitely wouldn't say every program cheats. In terms of recruiting, every big school walks a tight line because they choose to be close to AAU, agents, and runners.

Willfully running shitty college programs for athletes that otherwise couldn't get into the university with joke classes and professors/adjuncts fudging work is a completely different topic. No, not every school does that. When you add it on top of agents and or boosters paying athletes, it's a bad look when it's clearly against the rules. No way around it.

 

North Carolina’s Dominance Fails to Cover Cheating’s Stain

Amid the blue-and-white pompoms, few are so rude as to mention that the University of North Carolina, the Microsoft of college basketball, remains enmeshed in a scandal of spectacular proportions. Put simply, for two decades until 2013, the university provided fake classes for many hundreds of student athletes, most of them basketball and football players.

Coach Williams’s longtime man Friday, Wayne Walden, a former academic counselor, played switchman, steering basketball players to these classes. A touch of plagiarism, a no-show, were O.K. if it gave the young man more time to work on his drop step. There was one goal: Keep those grade-point averages at the minimum needed to compete for the university.

Even the failing New York Times knows it's cheating.

 

I don't care, nor do I care how much people cry about it. The players are at UNC for 2 reasons; win games and bring in money to the university.

 

Wish I was on Franklin St tonight. Being out there in 2008 was amazing.

 

Unc did do that shit so they indeed need to be punished by the NCAA

 

I mean, you can make the argument the rules about going to class and all that are wrong and no team should have to abide by them, but when other teams are and you play them you have to also say "yeah, we cheated to win."

At least own the cheating and try and change the awful rules and the NCAA's own corruptness. That's cool and makes sense. But UNC also at the center of a massive cheating scandal. And they gotta own that.

 

Unc need to be punished by the NCAA plain and simple. they need to be the poster child of what happenes when you cheat to keep players on the teams

 

Yea, but pimping these kids out to make millions of dollars is a great look? Its so hard to get upset over this when the system is ran the way it is. If these kids get hurt, the schools aren't even responsible for a) honoring their scholarship anymore, and b) their medical expenses. All because they aren't "employees," they are "student-athletes." Screw any morality argument...