It wasn't clear to me whether this only affects people going forward or could impact guys who are signed already. With our luck the freakin' NCAA will decide to declare half of our incoming recruits ineligible due to some technicality on a form or something from their school while at the same time ignoring some of the blatant stuff that goes on at their more favored institutions.
http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...2/1035/SPT
Vaughn is the only incoming player currently in a prep school ( Harmony Community). From what I
have read Harmony academics have been upgraded to effective according to the State of Ohio. There is some uproar on these out of state basketball players receiving Ohio tax money to fund their stay here and that situation will probably change. But I don't think Harmony is considered one of the
"diploma factories".
cincybb51 Wrote:Vaughn is the only incoming player currently in a prep school ( Harmony Community). From what I
have read Harmony academics have been upgraded to effective according to the State of Ohio. There is some uproar on these out of state basketball players receiving Ohio tax money to fund their stay here and that situation will probably change. But I don't think Harmony is considered one of the
"diploma factories".
Only problem is what the State of Ohio and the NCAA find as acceptable are two different things sometimes. Look at the Herrara situation. State of Florida, at one time the NCAA, had no issues with the English course. The NCAA then doesn't like athletes using said course(s), so the athlete can abide my national/state standards, but be inelegible as far as the NCAA is concerned.
I think instead of Miles Brand trying to force States to abide by his academic standards, whatever that may be, he should go after D1 schools, who graduate players unethically, ie. OSU, Duke, ect.
I think this is going to hurt A LOT of coaches. Who would have guessed that Karl Hobbs would still be at GW next year? Not me. The prep school fiacso caused his stock to drop faster than Enron.
Kenyon#4 Wrote:I think this is going to hurt A LOT of coaches. Who would have guessed that Karl Hobbs would still be at GW next year? Not me. The prep school fiacso caused his stock to drop faster than Enron.
The problem was the NCAA Clearinghouse. The
victim is/was Karl Hobbs and the GW program and any program (including Cincinnati) that would have taken players from these schools. I've done alot of reading and even talked to prep school coaches about this topic and the basketball programs are victims.
Part of the reason the NCAA acted so fast on the matter was because they knew they were at fault.