State and BR copy UL ... again

[LsuULfan]

_ oh yeah; i for one was thrilled that the tigers copied yet again last night--copied the '00 cajuns by heading to omaha. and may they copy them annually for the next decade or so. _

Actually you are incorrect-as I understand it. We were copying UNO. Now I'm not sure if the Cajuns were copying UNO or copying us copying UNO, I get confused... Or maybe we were all copying Abner Doubleday or whoever he copied from ...

[CajunFun]

was it probation, or one of the only two times my memory tells me a school got the death penalty? turbine?

Two schools were the first ever to receive complete shut-down of a program, before the penalty had a name, both in basketball: UL; and Long Beach State...

...coached by none other than Jerry "Tark the Shark" Tarkanian.

The penalty is now called the "Death Penalty."

Kentucky had made the NCAA mad years before, and the NCAA had asked other schools not to play them. No one did, so there is a year that KY has no basketball. But it wasn't a penalty, it was a voluntary action by the other schools.

And, it was before college sports had become a big money operation.

After UL and LBSU got the Death Penalty, the NCAA exclusively reserved it as a penalty for "small" schools, for quite a few years. Finally, the first "big-time" school, SMU (you youngsters will be surprised to hear that SMU was one of the dominant college football programs for several years) got the Death Penalty.

SMU never recovered from it, and when the SWC dissolved, SMU was not invited to join the Big XII.

And that, I believe, was the last time the Death Penalty was ever given out, to anyone, for anything.

[Zeebart21]

Speaking of typical responses ...

I will agree w/you on the last statement.

PS I love me sum baseball too ... What a night

HUH?? what happened? stuck up here in Bama...I am out of the loop.

Z

[Hammer58]

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And that, I believe, was the last time the Death Penalty was ever given out, to anyone, for anything. _

What about Tulane in basketball after the John Williams gambling / point shaving scandal? Was that ncaa mandated or self-imposed?

[CajunFun]

What about Tulane in basketball after the John Williams gambling / point shaving scandal? Was that ncaa mandated or self-imposed?

I thought the Tulane scandal was before SMU?? And I don't know if it was self-imposed, good question.

Death Penalty Of course, the article blithely leaves out all the "unimportant" schools who received the Death Penalty, i.e. all of them except SMU. One of us needs to edit it.

[CajunFun]

What about Tulane in basketball after the John Williams gambling / point shaving scandal? Was that ncaa mandated or self-imposed?

It was self-imposed: Tulane.

[LsuULfan]

_ HUH?? what happened? stuck up here in Bama...I am out of the loop.

Z

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What-are you on the far side of the moon or something? Would think a football type score would make it to the hinderlands of Bear Country

[Zeebart21]

What-are you on the far side of the moon or something? Would think a football type score would make it to the hinderlands of Bear Country

Just kidding. I knew. Congrats.

Z

[DaddyCajun]

This is a few lines pulled out of an Advocate article that CajunFun posted on his website. I was about the tuition hike bill which is needed to catch up schools esp. UL who has one of the lowest tuitions in the state and the southeast. LSU is trying to slide in another bill to basically double the amount of their fee increases unlike what the rest of the state schools will be able to do. Under the current bill LSU's 5% increase is approx $234 and UL $176. At least for now their $500 seperate bill is on hold! Guess they are trying to hide it better, or increase it more if they are able.


Here it is:
Another bill — House Bill 677 — that would phase in LSU fee increases by $500 a year was deferred temporarily on Monday.

[DestinCajun]

It was self-imposed: Tulane.

What about Boston College basketball?