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[catnhat]

I doubt he'll be a head coach again.

[NYStateOfMind]

[Rudy2011]

Regardless, he will always have a regular season non-conference win over Davidson to keep him warm at night.

.250 isn't a terrible batting average
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Carthago delenda est

I say we drink the wine, eat the dogs, and use the papers for musket wadding.

[i77cat]

He was more impressive against Davidson than Kresse was. We owned that guy.
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"McKillop is a gentleman. He could have played 'name that score' if he so desired."---St Joe's fan

[i77cat]

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/11361269/briante-weber-virginia-commonwealth-suspended-allegedly-stealing-iphone

That final sentence was a bit harsh.
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"McKillop is a gentleman. He could have played 'name that score' if he so desired."---St Joe's fan

[i77cat]

http://www.vcuramnation.com/forums/threads/briante-suspended-for-season-opener.13659/
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"McKillop is a gentleman. He could have played 'name that score' if he so desired."---St Joe's fan

[citycat]

This was announced yesterday and the VCU board has 17 pages of comments.

[DCFirst]

Yes, this type of thing is unfortunate, obviously could happen almost anywhere, but sadly is more common in certain large university-type environments. Take UNC-Chapel Hill, for example, or University of Kentucky, or now VCU, etc., etc., etc. It's simply a byproduct of the "big school" pro-athletics, non-academics emphasis that has become commonplace and downright systemic in so many of the NCAA programs -- the ones where self-policing is hypothetical and non-existent and where the NCAA runs the other way until conditions get so publicly bad that they're forced to respond. Wouldn't college sports be so much different and better if the NCAA took an aggressive, zero-tolerance approach at these schools and in the spirit of being fair did it from the beginning with each new incoming class of athletes? Until a meaningful, forward-thinking approach is adopted, things will only get worse with the NCAA continuing its current slide toward total ncaa embarrassment and with athletes getting mere wrist-slaps when they need to know upfront that real attention-getting longer-term suspensions will occur when they make serious mistakes .

[rbarney]

I don't believe the answer to this problem will ever be found in the NCAA. They consider themselves the administrators of college athletics, not collegiate academics. The lower the academic standards, the more likely the program will yield either embarrassments like this or "one-and-outs" who use the college athletic program as a minor league to the pros. The ultimate solution has to be undertaken by the college presidents. Only they can decide whether their athletic programs will be a vital part of the student program or a separate realm of paid representatives. Right now, most of the BSC presidents are either "missing in action" or accessories to the fact.

[catnhat]

When I see "zero tolerance" a red flag waves in my brain. In my experience zero tolerance too often means the decision makers refuse to look at all the circumstances when they make a decision.

I've seen 7 year olds suspended from school for sexual harassment for kissing a classmate on the cheek.

In the 80's a Meck. Co. HS football coach pitched a fit, made quite a scene, and was rightly ejected from the game. In response a rule was put in place stating that any coach ejected from a game would be relieved from his coaching duties. Apparently nobody considered that coaches' livelihoods were being placed in the hands of part time officials with varying degrees of judgment and experience. This rule didn't last very long.

I'm sure others have similar stories.

[i77cat]

[DCFirst]

People can quibble all day about terminology; and yes, of course, there are and always will be instances where "zero tolerance" is used to achieve unjust treatment. That said, zero tolerance in this instance is simply the opposite of the horribly blind indifference that the gutless, money-hungry NCAA practices toward anything that would interfere with producing large sums of money for which these so-called college sports administrators can continue to "skim" their huge, unfair share. Btw, it seems reasonable to assume that the worthless NCAA learned both their morals and their monetary propensities from the Mafia. Btw, RBarney has got the right perspective because many of the big monied athletic conferences are merely misbehaving stepchildren who learned their bad attitudes and worse behaviors from their irresponsible NCAA parents.

[TOK]

[i77cat]