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SI on Self's cheating and holding him accountable
Posted on: October 26, 2018 at 10:04:22 CT
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If the NCAA cares about its rules a 10th as much as it claims, then here is an idea: Suspend Bill Self. Tell him to sit on his couch while Kansas starts its basketball season, and tell him assistant coach Kurtis Townsend can join him there.
But Kansas knows as well as anybody how this works. The school seems to go through some version of this game every year. Players get held out of competition as a laughable show of “good faith” that the school is serious about following the rules. Kansas is sacrificing a pawn (De Sousa) to save its king (Self), because that’s what the NCAA implicitly encourages schools to do.
Enough. Tell Self and Townsend the No. 1 team in the country will have to survive without them for a while. They can keep their paychecks if they want. That’s Kansas’s problem.
But if you suspend Self, you put the onus on him: this is what came out in a court of law. Prove it wrong. Tell us that this is all a colossal misunderstanding suitable for a slapstick comedy. Do that, Bill and you can coach again.
Self and Kansas have expressed confidence that KU operates a compliant program. People all over college basketball are either laughing or crying at that one.
The biggest booster of Kansas athletics is Adidas. Adidas invests millions in the program, Adidas has direct access to the basketball coach and Adidas is the one that paid the players that Kansas coaches told Adidas it wanted. If that’s not a blatant recruiting violation, then there are no blatant recruiting violations. The NCAA might as well fire its enforcement staff.
The picture of Kansas that was painted in New York is the one that has been painted privately in the sport for years. Townsend is pleasant company, but I can’t imagine that a single person in college basketball is surprised his name came up. Self did not hire Townsend in 2004 to draw up plays in the final minute of Big 12 games. This isn’t about a rogue assistant or a head coach who doesn’t want to know. It’s a business operation, and Self is the CEO. Why should the CEO skate?
If the NCAA cares about its rules a 10th as much as it claims, then here is an idea: Suspend Bill Self. Tell him to sit on his couch while Kansas starts its basketball season, and tell him assistant coach Kurtis Townsend can join him there.
But Kansas knows as well as anybody how this works. The school seems to go through some version of this game every year. Players get held out of competition as a laughable show of “good faith” that the school is serious about following the rules. Kansas is sacrificing a pawn (De Sousa) to save its king (Self), because that’s what the NCAA implicitly encourages schools to do.
Enough. Tell Self and Townsend the No. 1 team in the country will have to survive without them for a while. They can keep their paychecks if they want. That’s Kansas’s problem.
But if you suspend Self, you put the onus on him: this is what came out in a court of law. Prove it wrong. Tell us that this is all a colossal misunderstanding suitable for a slapstick comedy. Do that, Bill and you can coach again.
Self and Kansas have expressed confidence that KU operates a compliant program. People all over college basketball are either laughing or crying at that one.
The biggest booster of Kansas athletics is Adidas. Adidas invests millions in the program, Adidas has direct access to the basketball coach and Adidas is the one that paid the players that Kansas coaches told Adidas it wanted. If that’s not a blatant recruiting violation, then there are no blatant recruiting violations. The NCAA might as well fire its enforcement staff.
The picture of Kansas that was painted in New York is the one that has been painted privately in the sport for years. Townsend is pleasant company, but I can’t imagine that a single person in college basketball is surprised his name came up. Self did not hire Townsend in 2004 to draw up plays in the final minute of Big 12 games. This isn’t about a rogue assistant or a head coach who doesn’t want to know. It’s a business operation, and Self is the CEO. Why should the CEO skate?
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