Basketball & Football Probation

[Turbine]

_ Big mistake. Had we gone into it with "your rule sucks, we don't think we deserve these penalties," we'd have been hit harder. _

No one suggested going in with "your rule sucks" at least I’m not.

My suggestion is we go in with a humble attitude and admit to the blatant T-Shirt violations.
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On the matter of the nebulous nature of the multiple rules that contributed to the unintentional winter intercession violations by the school on behalf of Orien Greene. We beg forgiveness and thank them for forming an NCAA committee to clear up the conflicting NCAA rules. It is comforting to know no school will have the same accidental ambiguous worries again.

The proof of ambiguity and relative innocence is when Coach Evans told the Associated Press in January of 04 that “Greene is enrolled for the spring semester, aiming to join the Cajuns, and is expected to be in class next week while he awaits word on the correspondence course.” No one in the sports world picked up on this NCAA violation?

On this matter we feel we deserve and ask for leniency from the NCAA. We throw ourselves at the mercy of the court. Please punish us as you feel justified.
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Jay with the NCAA acting on their own without our major guilty plea, there is ZERO chance we would have been hit harder than we hit ourselves. There is ZERO chance we end up with loss of 4 scholarships and ban from post season play for 2 years like we have been. ZERO chance.

jmo

[MissingMandy]

_ What did the Football team get hit with? It shouldnt be anything more than the probation because Spurrier anounced he was monitoring his athletes at practice at a press conference a while back. _

They have to cut Spring practice from 20 to 15 hours which they did this year any ways. Big Deal. There is a 2 year probation period that only means don't do anything wrong because we'll be (NCAA) watching. It is the basketball team that was hit hard. Really folks there isn't anything anyone can do. Is it fair? No. But you just have to move on. The more fuss everyone makes of it the more people will think it is actually deserved. Excelling next year in athletics is the best revenge. I hope for a good winning year for all sports. We can do it and show them all.

[CajunCherokee]

Jay with the NCAA acting on their own without our major guilty plea, there is ZERO chance we would have been hit harder than we hit ourselves. There is ZERO chance we end up with loss of 4 scholarships and ban from post season play for 2 years like we have been. ZERO chance.

jmo _

I thought that we were not suspended from post season play. Which is it?

[Turbine]

_ I thought that we were not suspended from post season play. Which is it? _

To me it's all the same.

They took away 2 post season appearances and I see that as a 2 year ban already served. (kind of like what the football team did with spring practice)

They took away 2 scholarhips along with 2 years of Orien Greene's scholarship. That is 4 scholarships, half retroactive, half to come.

Way to severe for murky rules.

[CajunCherokee]

_ To me it's all the same.

They took away 2 post season appearances and I see that as a 2 year ban already served. (kind of like what the football team did with spring practice)

I don't agree with that statement from a recruiting point of view. Michigan's recruitment power diminished significantly after they were found guilty. Probably why they are still struggling to this day. Not to say that Cajuns basketball were (or probably ever will be) on the stage of Michigan basketball, but kids want to taste posteason play. They don't want to play on a team in which the season automatically ends in February (or early March), regardless of your record. I understand your point about the past postseason apperances, but it is better IMO to take it with a grain of salt and move on. With future postseason appearances gone, our already stuggling "pull" for Cajun basketball would get siginificantly worse.

I was really proud of those two tournament teams and was there in Nashville cheering them on and its s*cks that we won't get credit for those appearances. But we didn't win either game, so it could've meant a lot more. Besides, it still counts to me because my trip to Nashville was one of my most memorable Cajun experiences.

It s*cks all the way around, but this is better than the rather. Its best to tighten the ship, learn from your mistakes and move on from here.