kalm
March 7th, 2009, 04:50 PM
I copied this from a thread off EWU's message board. I've heard that FSU appeared before the NCAA on the same day as Eastern. Their hearing lasted six hours, Eastern's lasted one.
Eastern's transgressions include paying people to help with summer high school camps and providing extra side lines passes which counted as violating the maximum number of payed coaches, and allowing academic non-qualifiers to hold a clip board at practices and paying for summer time room and board.
I'm not saying EWU shouldn't receive sanctions (and the ones they have self imposed are damaging), but the post season ban only hurts the current players and the fans. All of the people responsible for the infractions at EWU - Head Coach, 2 AD's, University President - are gone. EWU has learned it's lesson and has spent the last two years cleaning up its athletics department and beefing up it's compliance office.
If FSU doesn't deserve a post season ban, neither does Eastern:
Well, it didn't take the NCAA long to demonstrate their version of "fairness" when it comes to levying sanctions against the Big Boys vs. the Big Sky! FSU's football program (along with nine other FSU athletic programs such as baseball, men's basketball, men's and women's track and field) totaling around 61 players engaged in academic fraud over the course of two seasons. What did the NCAA do when they made the finding that "a former learning specialist, academic advisor and tutor gave "improper assistance" to Florida State athletes who were taking online courses. According to the NCAA, the former learning specialist typed portions of papers for at least three athletes and also provided answers to an online psychology course quiz by instructing another athlete to complete the quiz on behalf of the athlete enrolled in the course"? The NCAA put them on 4 years probation, accepted their own sanctions of loss of three schollies for one year, 2 for the next year and 1 for the third year, and vacated the wins of games in which the ineligible players participated (FSU says it will appeal the sanction that involves vacating the games). This seems to be the majority of the sanctions although I'm sure there's the usual fine print ones that involve training blah, blah, blah, but, rest assured, there is no post season ban for any of the sports teams involved. This despite the NCAA's own comment on how serious the nature of the violation:
"The committee stated this case was "extremely serious" because of the large number of student-athletes involved and the fact that academic fraud is considered by the committee to be among the most egregious of NCAA rules violations."
Eastern's transgressions include paying people to help with summer high school camps and providing extra side lines passes which counted as violating the maximum number of payed coaches, and allowing academic non-qualifiers to hold a clip board at practices and paying for summer time room and board.
I'm not saying EWU shouldn't receive sanctions (and the ones they have self imposed are damaging), but the post season ban only hurts the current players and the fans. All of the people responsible for the infractions at EWU - Head Coach, 2 AD's, University President - are gone. EWU has learned it's lesson and has spent the last two years cleaning up its athletics department and beefing up it's compliance office.
If FSU doesn't deserve a post season ban, neither does Eastern:
Well, it didn't take the NCAA long to demonstrate their version of "fairness" when it comes to levying sanctions against the Big Boys vs. the Big Sky! FSU's football program (along with nine other FSU athletic programs such as baseball, men's basketball, men's and women's track and field) totaling around 61 players engaged in academic fraud over the course of two seasons. What did the NCAA do when they made the finding that "a former learning specialist, academic advisor and tutor gave "improper assistance" to Florida State athletes who were taking online courses. According to the NCAA, the former learning specialist typed portions of papers for at least three athletes and also provided answers to an online psychology course quiz by instructing another athlete to complete the quiz on behalf of the athlete enrolled in the course"? The NCAA put them on 4 years probation, accepted their own sanctions of loss of three schollies for one year, 2 for the next year and 1 for the third year, and vacated the wins of games in which the ineligible players participated (FSU says it will appeal the sanction that involves vacating the games). This seems to be the majority of the sanctions although I'm sure there's the usual fine print ones that involve training blah, blah, blah, but, rest assured, there is no post season ban for any of the sports teams involved. This despite the NCAA's own comment on how serious the nature of the violation:
"The committee stated this case was "extremely serious" because of the large number of student-athletes involved and the fact that academic fraud is considered by the committee to be among the most egregious of NCAA rules violations."