(04-11-2017 04:43 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(04-11-2017 01:56 PM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  I'd be curious to know what the ACC and UNC's peers think of this entire situation. Do they want this to go away, or would they find value in UNC being penalized for clearly taking advantage of academic standards?

The death of conference mates turning you in, and the death of the NCAA's teeth came with revenue sharing. If you turn Alabama in and they don't make the CFP then the conferences is out of a split of 80 million if they don't have another representative in the wings. If you are N.C. State and you turn in UNC you lose those tourney credits. Most commissioners now promote an all for one and one for all mentality between the schools. If somebody gets turned in it is by a member of another conference, or by a disgruntled donor or fan.

Right now North Carolina is the basketball bell cow of the ACC. Duke is still strong but fading a tad. Nobody in the ACC is going to rat on UNC at the administrative level.

Ole Miss would not have been in trouble except their own athletes flashed the cash on UTube and Facebook and a top draftee on NFL draft night talked about is impermissible benefits at Ole Miss. The SEC can't cover stupid!

The NCAA realizes that conference members are hard to nail down in testimony these days because it affects their bottom line in a revenue sharing conference.

Then enter the networks. Do you think for a minute that CBS, or ESPN, or FOX, or NBC wants to lose a top national brand's telecasts for a season or two, or lose out on their failure to appear in the post season? It affects their advertising rates which affects their pocket books. So don't look for ESPN to do a 20/20 piece on this that does anything but throw cover for the school.

The bigger the money got, and the more people who get a slice of the pie, the fewer folks there are that want to see sanctions.

Now enter the NCAA itself. Let's say that Kansas and North Carolina, and Michigan State all wound up on probation for recruiting violations. The NCAA banks nearly 70 million a year into their endowment from the tournament. Take a few national brands out of the tourney and voila advertisers balk about the rates because a large part of the national audience suddenly is less likely to tune in. Now for enforcing rules the NCAA may cut 10 million out of their own annual haul. Ain't happening!

The enforcement committee needs to be 100% independent of the NCAA and the schools other than the apportionment that each school must pay for the organization's fairness.

If this is what they're thinking, it's very shortsighted.

The "student-athlete" concept is all that separates the NCAA from the NBA d-league or minor league baseball. If the "top national brands" don't enforce the student-athlete model then the public will eventually stop paying attention to NCAA sports.