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RE: Pretty timely process
Posted on: August 29, 2023 at 12:25:15 CT
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https://www.si.com/college/2022/04/27/mark-emmert-steps-down-ncaa-president-about-time-for-change
This was Emmert’s Final Folly, announcing the men’s basketball national championship trophy would be presented to “the Kansas City Jayhawks.” That was an embarrassing flub, but the University of Kansas Jayhawks’s presence in the NCAA tournament alone provided the larger contextual humiliation. This Kansas title was the symbol of the NCAA’s futility in enforcing its own rules. The Jayhawks won it all while facing allegations of major violations that date back to a 2017 federal investigation of corruption in college basketball—allegations that seem likely to result in a postseason ban of one or more years, whenever the NCAA gets around to completing the case.
So, Kansas wins it all and laughs all the way back to Lawrence after basically giving the NCAA the middle finger for the past 4 1/2 years. (Up to and including a lifetime contract for coach Bill Self, who is named in the major violations.) While this is certainly a reflection of Kansas’s institutional choice to be utterly disdainful of its own culpability, it also is a glaring reflection of the disrespect so many schools have for the NCAA as a whole.
This was Emmert’s Final Folly, announcing the men’s basketball national championship trophy would be presented to “the Kansas City Jayhawks.” That was an embarrassing flub, but the University of Kansas Jayhawks’s presence in the NCAA tournament alone provided the larger contextual humiliation. This Kansas title was the symbol of the NCAA’s futility in enforcing its own rules. The Jayhawks won it all while facing allegations of major violations that date back to a 2017 federal investigation of corruption in college basketball—allegations that seem likely to result in a postseason ban of one or more years, whenever the NCAA gets around to completing the case.
So, Kansas wins it all and laughs all the way back to Lawrence after basically giving the NCAA the middle finger for the past 4 1/2 years. (Up to and including a lifetime contract for coach Bill Self, who is named in the major violations.) While this is certainly a reflection of Kansas’s institutional choice to be utterly disdainful of its own culpability, it also is a glaring reflection of the disrespect so many schools have for the NCAA as a whole.
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RE: Pretty timely process - FIJItiger MU - 8/29 12:25:15