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^ I actually thought the exact same thing when I looked at that list. Strange.
Additionally, here is SI’s Top 25. The ACC has 5 of the top 20.
The quarterback who supposedly wrote the essay speaks out — Link
IMHO, this is pretty damning that the athletes continue to publicly admit that they didn’t have
Note at the end that ‘everybody does it’. I’m curious why nobody at UNC ever shares with us what schools also have fake classes and have had over 500 improper grade changes?
Do you even believe that this is the same person that wrote this essay?
I thought some people on Pack Pride or some other site had figured out that this essay had been turned in by other students and wasn’t even original. Did someone tell me wrong about that?
Peter Golenbock is a tool and the former manager who provided him with “a story” is a pathological liar and a money grubbing dirtbag who I know personally and have had the misfortune of dealing with frequently over the past decade. Valvano was a great man who was unfairly hurt and slandered at the end of a good life by a couple of pathetic people. It is a sad shame.
Tell us more about dealing with him personally over the last decade!!!
Good for CBS. I guess with Jeff Goodman gone they find a way to recognize that we exist.
It’s a good call as Cat really showed improvement the last couple of weeks of the season. If we can reduce his awful unforced turnovers (at times he seems to have hands of stone) and continue to hit that pull up outside jumper then he will take a huge leap next year.
Give CBS credit as they also recently picked Trevor Lacey as one of the top five transfers in the country.
What in the HELL is Peter’s Golenbock’s relevance in 2014? If you’ve ever needed anything more to support the obvious that Dave Glenn’s show (owned by Don Curtis) has an agenda then this should be exhibit one.
The point that Golenbock makes is that “Valvano didn’t graduate his players” is the central core of this whole issue. At NC State in 1980s, players absolutely remained eligible by taking a hodge podge of courses that were not in a ‘track’ that advanced them towards graduating with a specific degree. But, of course, after 6 or 7 truly INDEPENDENT investigations, it was learned that NEVER ONCE was a grade inappropriately changed or was academic credit not legitimately EARNED by the athlete.
But today, evidently, “everybody” sets up fake majors, changes over 500 grades and has over 200 fake classes all designed to ‘graduate’ players…so, everything is ok.
Surely the super smart and rational Dave Glenn highlighted these facts and points, right?
Where do these morons get their crazy pills?
To explain just a little more on the insanity of the hypocrisy here, you’ve got to click here to learn more about the consequences for breaking the “spirit, not the letter of the law”
Spangler’s report faulted Valvano for failure to provide adequate oversight of players’ academic progress and for encouraging course loads designed to maintain athletic eligibility rather than to form ”a coherent program of study.” Valvano was further criticized for recruiting players who had no reasonable expectation of graduation.
For the record, there were no implications of players cheating or improper assistance by any tutors at Jim Valvano’s NC State. There was no institutionalized cheating or academic fraud within the University. There was no grade-fixing. Players who did not deserve to matriculate or graduate were, in fact, not graduating and therefore not destroying the value of the diploma that so many hang so proudly. Nor were there accusations that agents were paying for players’ trips to Miami or California or funneling money through coaches to players.
And, most importantly, it seems that few folks recognize that every sanction leveled upon the State Basketball program was self-imposed by the University, and that the NCAA found this internal punishment satisfactory.
Good Lord.
This is the kind of situation that put Maryland in a tough financial situation. Things were already tight for them, but after Debbie Yow left they decided to first Friedgen and move Gary Williams to a paid consultant making something like $400k a year to not do anything. The additional short term stress of millions of dollars a year in additional expenses in a department that was already tight was crushing.
If VPI’s facilities and other drawbacks end up being too much for Williams to overcome then this situation will be TOUGH for everyone. It isn’t like they’ve got the best basketball fans in the world.
2pm EST — Everytime I look up Kansas has a ball rimming out or just barely clanging off the rim. Wiggins just missed a lay up. Freaky
Marquette and Ben Howland mutually interested. Link
Former UCLA coach Ben Howland spoke with Marquette officials this weekend about the school’s opening for a men’s basketball coach, multiple sources told CBSSports.com.
No offer has been extended. But Marquette is definitely interested — as CBSSports.com reported Friday.
Meantime, sources told CBSSports.com that Howland is eager to return to coaching, and that he holds the Marquette program in high regard. A return to the Big East at a school that cares deeply about basketball intrigues Howland, multiple sources told CBSSports.com.
Howland coached at Pittsburgh before UCLA.
He has made nine NCAA Tournaments, including three Final Fours, in his past 12 years as a head coach. Still, UCLA fired Howland last March — making him the first coach in history to ever be removed immediately after winning a regular-season title in a power conference.
Buzz Williams left Marquette for Virginia Tech on Friday.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and ESPN.com are both also reporting mutual interest between Marquette and Howland. A decision, one way or another, is expected this week.
I can’t stand Calhoun to about the same tune as how much I dislike Boeheim. I’ve never understood how they were able to cheat and bend the rules they bent through the years and to build that program out of nowhere without more repercussions.
TSN: Why Buzz Williams made the move (Link)
Marquette coach Buzz Williams is headed east to coach Virginia Tech, the Hokies announced. The news was first reported by Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel and Pat Forde.
On the surface, the move seems rather surprising, given that the Hokies are not a team known for much basketball success in recent years, and Williams had proven himself as a coach with the Golden Eagles, having led the team to three straight Sweet 16 appearances before struggling this past season when Vander Blue made the surprising move to enter the NBA Draft following the 2012-13 campaign.
However, a source close to Williams told Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy that his situation at Marquette had grown less attractive in the past year, which made him interested when Virginia Tech’s new AD, Whit Babcock, pursued him.
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Moving to the ACC will give Williams a higher profile than he enjoyed in the newly configured Big East. But Williams has considerable work to do to get his team to become a contender. The Hokies have been to the NCAA Tournament only once since 1996, and that berth came seven years ago. Williams replaces James Johnson, who went 22-41 in two seasons with the school. He was fired earlier this week.
This is an infinitely better hire than I ever thought VPI could/would get. I think this really says something about the changing landscape of the NCAA and college basketball and how the power is really going to shift to the top 64 teams in the power conferences…especially if they ultimately break away and create their own ‘super division’.
I HOPE all of this negativity is just a reaction to the pain we are currently feeling. As with all things, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Nonetheless — we DON’T want Shaka at Wake Forest.
Additionally, I am very surprised at the strength of the hire at VPI. Never thought they could get someone of Buzz Williams’ stature. Goes to show there is a sea-change going on with major conferences.
UConn just can’t or won’t get their **** together. They’ve already been banned from the NCAA Tournament for APR issues.
Great point about the Tar holes…it’s easy to support these standards when you knew that everyone else was going to have to hold themselves accountable and you weren’t!! NOW their looking to change the workload on Freshmen because it is just too much. Gee, it hasn’t been too much for them until now. What changed?
Couldn’t agree more with you. He ABSOLUTELY makes it look easy. And, he gets points even when you don’t realize it. It is silent…until it isn’t.
Also, Love this from CBS.
When the Round of 64 begins Thursday, the metrics say that if the form of the past half-decade holds, there will be somewhere in the vicinity of 10 occasions where the worse-seeded team (9 or worse) beats the better-seeded team (8 or better).
I am over the Wichita State thing. Ready for them to lose and the power conferences to take their spot back. Same goes of Shaka and VCU and the whole A-10.
If I am a Boston College fan right now I am IRATE. I don’t what they were doing with Steve Donohue over the last few days, but Pearl is a BC alum. As an NC State fan, I couldn’t be happier that Pearl ended up in the SEC and NOT the ACC. The guy is fantastic. For almost 15 years I’ve thought he would be a fantastic fit in Raleigh.
Goodman started trolling months ago. See below. It’s called ‘confirmation bias’. He believed/wanted it to be true that anything he saw was going to support his preconceived notions. Even in the first week of the year with more than half the season to play.
Good call RT @GoodmanESPN Jan 4 Pitt-NC State tilt is fairly interesting. Panthers lead 60-52 in Raleigh. Could be a nice NIT champ gm.”
— J H (@PittCabe) March 17, 2014
