NCAA has become completely impotent

A couple years back the NCAA cut back on their enforcement staff....yet claimed they were going to be way more efficient in finding and penalizing the cheaters....
what has happened since is interesting....

First - they take forever (like the cases at Syracuse, Penn State, Miami, Cam Newton ...all of which began 4 to 6 years ago! -
and especially the enormous academic fraud stuff at North Carolina

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16208

...now headed into it's 6th year .... and cases like this one that just get swept under the carpet...)

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21419

... to actually come to any conclusion. Then despite massive cheating and really serious harm done, they impose minimal & somewhat soft & laughable penalties (like removing some wins that they later add back on)..
then they claim the whole case is done and guys like Jim Boeheim go right back to work despite all the cheating.

Nobody ever gets the severe penalties like Dave Bliss got...
(BTW- Dave Bliss just got hired again as a college head coach -

http://www.bnd.com/2015/04/07/3753299/disgraced-ex-baylor-coach-bliss.html


Then a study done confirms how terribly flawed the NCAA investigative and enforcement process is - and how biased it is yet nobody seems to care...

http://bdavidrid.authorsxpress.com/2015/03/28/usc-case-exposes-ncaa-enforcement-and-infractions-process-as-flawed-and-untenable-yet-again/

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-usc-todd-mcnair-botched-interview-20150325-story.html


But the main thing is that over the past couple years - NOT ONE single new major investigation has been launched and they are seemingly no longer even looking into all the cheating going on - so I guess guys like Calipari can feel emboldened to keep cheating...

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jon-solomon/24560341/all-quiet-on-the-violations-front-is-ncaa-enforcement-dead

BUT - if Bradley has a kid who earns any summer job overtime pay or who gets a taxi ride paid for - you can bet the NCAA would have a couple field agents setting up camp on the quad for weeks until they found something...


One more thing- wonder why when new coaches are hired in the spring - that the announcement of the new assistants seems to lag a bit even when it is known who will be hired?
Here's the reason...
once hired the assistant coaches must, of course, comply with NCAA recruiting rules but if they have NOT yet been hired then there is NO WAY they can be cited with violations even if they view a kid or a recruit during a dead period or visit him when not allowed to NCAA coaches.

In other words - it is a little bit of a recruiting advantage for a potential assistant coach to stay UNHIRED for a few weeks early in the AAU spring period - so he can do a little more of what he's allowed to do on his own before becoming officially a hired D-I assistant!
So don't be surprised if our assistants hit the ground running once they are named - as if they've already been out there checking kids out...
;)