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What ever happened to . . . ?

  1. the Reggie Bush lawsuit?
  2. the OJ Mayo criminal investigation (credit card fraud)
  3. the OJ Mayo improper benefits investigation
  4. the media coverage of either
  5. the NCAA's credibility

10 months ago 13-9_tiny MexiBruin 5 comments 0 recs  | 

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I was speaking to my son tonite.

 Its almost if suc has a hold of the people in charge and tells them all is well and its believed. I can’t believe it, but continue to see it year after year. Can we write someone who might care to help us find the answers? Go Bruins

by bruinart52 on Jan 12, 2009 10:44 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

They have all gone

the way of U$C’s ethics…

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Jan 13, 2009 11:14 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

SIMPLE!

Why would anyone do anything to hurt the cash cow that is SUC. Sure the cow sexually assaults your sister and beats up you grandfather at the family party, but it brings you alot of money.

Go Bruins.

by hval14 on Jan 13, 2009 4:20 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

I still don't get the "cash cow" business.

How is justsc (or any school) a “cash cow” for the ncaa? Or another question – how is the ncaa funded? Assune there are 119 teams in the ncaa now each of which generates $1,000,000 to be paid to the ncaa. If the ncaa actually did its job and gave justsc the death penalty, then the ncaa could get the same amount of money by charging each of the 118 other schools an extra $8,474.50. Is it TV revenues? If justsc were not shown on TV, would the ncaa somehow get hurt? Wouldn’t a replacement game generate the same money to the ncaa?

For a long time and from many sources, this whole “cash cow” business has been offered as an excuse for the ncaa’s institutional myopia and constitutional inability to act. But no one has yet demonstrated that a stiff penalty against justsc would have any effect on any revenue stream coming to the ncaa.

If we assume that in fact the “cash cow” theory is not the basis for the ncaa’s inaction, then what on earth could possibly be the reason? My opinion (based on no real facts at all) is that it’s an issue of institutional inertia – “Gee, we’ve never given justsc the death penalty, so we sure can’t do it now. So if we acknowledge that there are death penalty issues, then we look bad, so obviously we just pretend that there is no evidence.” And more opinion: There is in fact a revenue stream, but it’s going from justsc to the enforcers and their bosses.

I don’t want to be sued, so I made sure to express this thought as a matter of opinion. But why is it that neither justsc nor the ncaa have ever sued anyone for defamation? Could it be that they don’t want to do discovery and have someone poking around in their records with the power of fht court behind them?

by Fox 71 on Jan 13, 2009 7:44 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

SOP

NCAA and media do their Standard Operating Procedure, which is to ignore, preferably, or minimize if they actually have to say something. After all, to them these aren’t big things like Cade McNowan using a handicapped parking pass.

If Kevin Love had broken Darrren Collison’s jaw, or vice versa, I suspect the L.A. Times not only would have written about it, but it would have been on page 1 of the Sports section — maybe even the whole paper. But if Mayo breaks Hackett’s jaw, well that apparently never happened, despite witness reports.

by ucla7477 on Jan 13, 2009 8:58 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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