(12-26-2016 06:19 PM)Reggie Favre Wrote:  btw, Hawaii (who beat Doc by 14 yesterday) was under "pending" sanctions and seemed to flourish. they made the Big Dance and then won a first round game (first time in school history) a few months after the official sanctions came out.

http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2017/rpi-live

That Hawaii was able to play in the NCAA tournament invalidates any comparison right off the bat. They have a 1-year post-season ban effective this season, whereas we've been locked out the past two. That makes for completely different effects on recruiting the rosters at each school this year and last.

Additionally, Hawaii only lost one active player as a result of their investigation, and he wasn't even the one (singular) with the phony admissions info that started the whole thing.

Furthermore, in regards to the relative hammers that were waiting to be dropped by the NCAA, even after falling on our own sword with the self-imposed penalties, we were still given harsher penalties than Hawaii on the back end. Heck, Tyndall's show cause order is twice as long as those of the two sanctioned Hawaii coaches combined.

The circunstances at the two schools as they affected last season and affect this season aren't even close to the same.