UConn Ineligible For 2013 NCAA Tourney

[DanMcQ]

rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-uconn-apr

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)—The University of Connecticut has proposed reducing the number of games it will play next season if the NCAA grants a waiver to allow the Huskies to play in the 2013 men’s basketball tournament.

The school currently would be barred from the NCAA tournament, a penalty for years of below-standard academic results, but it requested a waiver last month.

That document, obtained this week by The Associated Press under a Freedom of Information request, outlines proposed self-imposed penalties to be instituted if the request is granted.

Those include forfeiting the revenue awarded to the Big East for participating in the 2013 tournament, reducing the number of regular-season games played in the 2012-13 season from 27 to 23 and barring coach Jim Calhoun from meeting off-campus with prospective recruits during the fall 2012 contact period.

If the NCAA goes for this, we'll know they are fully in the tank.

[sleepyjackson21]

UConn has no shame.

[kchoya]

Great column by Pat Forde:

rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=pf-forde_uconn_ncaa_tourney_ban_calhoun_silent_020812

There should be no bargaining to avoid those penalties, no switching the rules when the results aren’t in your favor. Most of us learn that as children; hopefully UConn will learn it now.

[Elvado]

Will Calhoun agree to actually resign and put a non-recidivist cheat in charge? That would be a deal. Of course, knowing UConvict, the promise would be made with fingers crossed and thus would not actually bind them.

As an aside, what they are actually prposing is to allow them to play in the highest exposure tournament in exchange for giving up the Quinnipiac, CConn State, Sacred Heart and Bridgeport games while also promising that Stenosis boy won't go on trip which are too painful for him to make ayway.

Big time offer by the Huskies.

[geedell]

this is a joke...flatout

[lichoya68]

GIMME A BREAK EMBARASSMENT TO UCONN THE STATE OF CONN AND COLLEGE BASKETBALL pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Admin]

Because they are playing in a exempt tournament next season, it would mean 26 games, not 23.

And no off-campus visits for Calhoun the seven day contact periods, but all his assistants do? Ah, penalties...

[DanMcQ]

Shocking that UConn hasn't figured out the trick Syracuse uses to cover up for it's Melos, as noted by tarkman tonight:

hoyatalk2.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=25305&page=33#478993

As an aside, I noticed that Syracuse had 20 players dressed for the game, all of whom are listed in the game program. An aquaintance who sat near me pointed out that the reason so many kids are on the team is its Syracuse's way of getting around the new academic / graduation thresholds imposed by the NCAA. He claims they pad the team GPA with outstanding students that happen to also "walk-on" the team. I would hope the NCAA is smart enough to close this loophole, if true, but thought it spoke volumes to how one would expect Syracuse to conduct itself.

[LizziebethHoya]

Makes me sick. 1-2 walk ons max, unless you have a St. Johns situation and have no other choice.

[Ranch Dressing]

Dean Berry and Gharun Hester and Trent Hillier and Brendan Gaughn are really Editeded off right now.

[RDF]

And we now know why Calhoun got Herpes, Warts or whatever the F he's claiming he's out with. BTW--anyone paying attention notice....he's done interviews and what a "warriors" through the pain.

Someone just put him/them out of their misery--Death Penalty (NCAA Wise)

[centercourt400s]

I wonder if UConvict's president Susan Herbst listed pathetic groveling as a job skill on the resume she submitted for the job? If not she can certainly add it on her next one.

[tashoya]

This is genius. Whenever I'd get in trouble as a kid and my mommy would initially punish me, she TOTALLY let me substitute my own plan for a punishment that had absolutely no bite and taught me nothing. Worked like a charm.

[rosslynhoya]

Can we preemptively volunteer to forfeit UConn's contribution to the Big East's tourney revenues first, so that UConn can't include that in their offer?

Also, assuming the ban is upheld, if UConn were to win the BET, then would the Big East lose out on an auto-bid? If so, then why would the conference even allow UConn into the BET in the first place?!?

[SFHoya99]

Here's my compromise:

Calhoun resigns, admits to every slimy thing he's done, UConn willfully forfeits every game he's coached and pays back every single dollar of NCAA revenue (not from the BE -- UConn pays it back).

[Boz]

Feb 9, 2012 11:30:42 GMT -5 SFHoya99 said:

Here's my compromise:

Calhoun resigns, admits to every slimy thing he's done, UConn willfully forfeits every game he's coached and pays back every single dollar of NCAA revenue (not from the BE -- UConn pays it back).

And then stick him at a boring desk job like Vic Mackey!

Can you imagine how last-episode-of-The Shield-like it would be if Fagin confessed to every slimy thing he's done?

The look of horror on the faces of the NCAA officials interviewing him would be worth the price of admission.

[DanMcQ]

Dana O'Neil:

2. Connecticut needs to take its academic medicine.

Facing a ban from the NCAA tournament next season because of its APR, the university has concocted a multi-step pitch for the NCAA, hoping that self-induced penalties will allow the Huskies in the field next year.

I know this: If the NCAA accepts UConn's pitch it can never again say the words academics and athletics in the same breath.

Plenty of schools have suffered the sting of an insufficient APR. Except we haven't heard about most of them because they are off in the MEAC or the SWAC, not the defending national champions.

It would be completely unfair and frankly shameful for the NCAA to offer a reprieve to UConn when it never gave other schools a chance.

The APR wasn't just sprung on UConn. The school, like its counterparts, has known for years what the requirements were, so retroactively offering to get its academic house together shouldn't alleviate a punishment for earlier disorder.

[HoyaSinceBirth]

Dana nailed it. If the NCAA caves they lose what little credibility they have left.

[hoyarooter]

I'm enjoying this thread immensely. I just hope in a few weeks we aren't back blowing off steam about how the NCAA let UConn skate.

[lichoya68]

yes dana STUDENT ATHLETE AN OXYMORON FOR SURE sad sad sad moses gets his guardian to pay for his flight to high school here mose out what nine and has to work and study and practice to pay back tix the football player who was rasining his orphan brother at south carolina or where ever and they wanna take away scholarship casue the brother homeless living in the dorm on the floor baby sat by teamates HADDA RECIND THAT ONE and then thomas robinson only family member left for his brother and kansas not supposed to allow him to go home and team to go to this moms funeral. UCONN GIMME A BREAK ncaa student athlete sad sad sad ITS ABOUT MORE THAN BBALL. ax uconn now.