Thursday, October 23, 2014

Breaking Cheating Scandals in College Sports

It's getting kind of hard to keep track of all the major cheating scandals and NCAA investigations, so I thought I'd condense them all into one thread..

Here's the latest ones.....

Syracuse - just breaking - is being investigated by NCAA for massive cheating as well - but it's been going on for years and NCAA has dragged their feet endlessly.
http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootball/index.ssf/2014/10/syracuse_ncaa_investigation_football_program_wide-ranging_inquiry.html

North Carolina football & basketball have been caught cheating and using phony & fraudulent classes to give players grades even though they are flunking and ineligible.  By all rights the NCAA has to come down hard on this and shut them down completely.
But I suspect they will severely criticize someone from the past, dock them a few games forfeited, then claim they've done their job and everything else is OK.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21370
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=298737#post298737
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/us/unc-report-academic-fraud/index.html

Texas A&M - http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/8/28/4668634/johnny-manziel-suspended-texas-a-m

Florida State - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2230563-jameis-winston-reportedly-facing-investigation-over-signing-autographs-for-money

Georgia - http://www.businessinsider.com/todd-gurley-autograph-scandal-2014-10

...are all cases of players getting exposed for massive extra benefits violations and getting paid - NCAA has so far been almost invisible in all of this....I guess they're too busy flying all their field agents & investigators out to small schools whose players inadvertently were paid a few bucks more at a summer job than they should have been.


Penn State had massive scandals but not really cheating and yet got clobbered with sanctions - much of which were then quietly cancelled
http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/267742/speedreads-ncaa-drops-penn-state-punishments-handed-down-over-child-abuse-scandal

Other scandals at 
Ole Miss - http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/ole-miss-football/ole-miss-ncaa-investigation-2014/

Oklahoma State
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/2014/10/21/ncaa-report-cheating-oklahoma-state-unfounded/17681913/ 

Oregon
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2014/08/oregon_ducks_football_violatio.html

Wichita State - http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article2248275.html

Hawaii - http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25545820/ben-jay-statement-on-ncaa

Iowa, Iowa State, & UNI - http://archive.hawkcentral.com/2014/05/28/special-report-ncaa-violations-by-iowa-isu-and-uni-in-the-past-year/

Ohio State - http://thelantern.com/2014/04/ohio-state-athletics-nearly-double-self-reported-violations-compared-closest-conference-rival/

...... round out the rest of the ones I had heard about this past year....

Then, of course, news that the two biggest repeat cheaters in all of amateur sports - Bruce Paerl & Kelvin Sampson are back coaching in college basketball...
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10996097/bruce-pearl-kelvin-sampson-road-coaching-redemption

other than these - it's actually been kinda quiet on the cheating front...

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