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发帖数: 764 | 1 Let’s face it, our favorite college programs cheat. That thoroughbred
running back who’s expected to anchor your school’s offense over the next
three or four years didn’t come cheap. Sure, your school may not have been
caught lately, but that’s probably because the coaches and boosters do it
more discreetly than others — and kudos to them, because getting away with
it isn’t always easy. According to Insider Higher Ed, almost half of all
big-time college sports programs have been punished for major violations by
the NCAA during the last decade. These days, even the Ivies aren’t immune
to major infractions. The following programs are the most notorious repeat
offenders, the blatant cheaters who always seem to have NCAA investigators
breathing down their necks. This is where the phrase "lack of institutional
control" becomes redundant.
1. Arizona State — Nine Major Infractions: The Sun Devils would be the
biggest cheaters, but because they aren’t a consistent football powerhouse,
their misdeeds have gone mostly under the radar. Arizona State is primarily
known for its baseball program, which has won five national championships
and produced legends such as Reggie Jackson and fittingly, Barry Bonds. Last
December, it was penalized for major secondary violations, resulting in
three years probation and a one-year ban from NCAA postseason. The NCAA
Division I Committee on Infractions cited the athletic program for, most
notably, improperly recruiting one player and giving improper benefits to
multiple players. Arizona State was a repeat offender — in 2005, ASU was
given two years probation for a lack of institutional control and
impermissibly giving financial aid. The litany of problems led to the forced
resignation of coach Pat Murphy, who led the Sun Devils to four College
World Series appearances.
2. SMU — Eight Major Infractions: Holding the unfortunate distinction of
being just one of five programs in NCAA history to suffer the death penalty
, SMU football is still the poster child for corruption in major college
athletics. Its capital offense was maintaining a slush fund to pay players
from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, even when the program was already on
probation — from 1974 to 1985, it was penalized on five separate occasions.
Because SMU was under such intense scrutiny from the NCAA, the powers that
be had little choice but to levy the harshest penalty. As a result, the
entire 1987 season was canceled, SMU was forced to cancel the 1988 season,
55 scholarships were docked and the team was permitted to hire just five
full-time assistant coaches instead of the regular nine. The program was
crippled for almost two decades, but it has finally experienced a resurgence
over the last couple of years. In 2009, head coach June Jones guided the
programs its first bowl game since the 1984 Aloha Bowl.
3. Auburn — Seven Major Infractions: Seven major infractions for now,
anyway. The Cam Newton situation aside, Auburn has had a difficult time
playing by the rules over the years. Its most embarrassing incident occurred
in 1991, when 60 Minutes aired recordings of head football coach Pat Dye
arranging a loan for a player. The series of incriminating tapes were
provided by former star defensive back Eric Ramsey and unveiled a player
payment scheme involving the coaching staff and prominent booster "Corky"
Frost. For its wrongdoing, Auburn received a two-year bowl ban, a one-year
television and ban and lost 13 scholarships over a four-year period. Dye was
replaced by Terry Bowden, who became the first Division 1 coach to go
undefeated in his first season but had nothing to show for it.
4. Minnesota — Seven Major Infractions: During his 13-year stint as
Minnesota’s head basketball coach, Clem Haskins oversaw runs to the Elite
Eight, Final Four and NIT Championship. Today, however, only the Elite Eight
appearance remains in the NCAA record books, as everything Haskins
accomplished from 1993-1994 forward was vacated. Prior to the Golden Gophers
’ appearance in the 1999 NCAA tournament, a former basketball office
manager revealed that she had written more than 400 papers for numerous
basketball players over several years. Haskins’ contract was bought out
over the summer and he later admitted to paying her $3,000 for her work. As
the NCAA investigation unfolded, he was accused of paying players,
persuading professors to inflate players’ grades and ignoring sexual
harassment concerns. The NCAA administered massive sanctions, notably
docking five scholarships over three seasons and instituting recruiting
limitations. The entire athletic department suffered, as athletic director,
associate athletic director, vice president for student development and
athletics and academic counselor were all forced to resign due to the
scandal.
5. Oklahoma — Seven Major Infractions: Barry Switzer inherited a program
on probation — it forfeited nine games from the 1972 season because of
violations that resulted from the alteration of players’ transcripts — and
left it on probation in 1988. The Sooners had garnered the reputation of
being an outlaw program in the 1980s. During one rough patch, a shooting and
rape occurred in an athletic dorm, a player attempted to sell drugs to
undercover agent, and a player robbed Switzer’s home. The latter player
probably didn’t receive person checks from Switzer, scalped game tickets,
free airline tickets, or a boatload of money from a bidding war during his
recruitment. All of that happened, and it resulted in a two-year bowl ban, a
one-year live television ban and recruiting restrictions. More recently,
Oklahoma’s basketball program was penalized when former basketball coach
Kelvin Sampson, the same guy who later crippled the Indiana basketball
program due to unethical recruiting practices, made 550 illegal calls to 17
different recruits.
6. Texas A&M — Seven Major Infractions: The Southwest Conference is
probably the most corrupt entity in the history of college sports. If you
competed in the SWC during the 1980s and weren’t cheating, you didn’t have
a pulse. Not coincidentally, Texas A&M enjoyed quite a bit of success
during the decade, winning three consecutive conference titles under Jackie
Sherrill, who Joe Paterno once lumped with Barry Switzer when bemoaning that
era of college football. Sherrill resigned in 1988 after the NCAA
discovered that assistant coaches and boosters were providing improper
benefits to recruits — one was given a sports car and another’s father was
offered medical treatment. The Aggies were given two years of probation,
banned from the postseason for one season and docked 10 scholarships.
Additional violations by the basketball program in 1991 and the football
program again in 1994 — a booster employed and overpaid nine players who
didn’t really work — almost caused A&M to suffer the same fate as SMU.
7. Wichita State — Seven Major Infractions: Programs from smaller
conferences are just as capable of skirting the rules as the big boys.
Although Wichita State doesn’t have a football program, its baseball and
basketball programs have flourished. The baseball program has been one of
the most successful in recent history, winning the 1989 College World Series
and finishing second in 1982, 1991, and 1993. The basketball program
reached the Final Four in 1965, Elite Eight in 1981 and Sweet Sixteen in
2006. Of the program’s seven infractions, perhaps the most disheartening
one occurred in 1982, not long after the team had reached the Elite Eight.
Violations involving the promises of cash and airline tickets resulted in
the stripping of two basketball scholarships over two seasons and the
program’s ban from the NCAA tournament and NIT. At the time the penalties
were imposed, Wichita State led the NCAA in major infractions.
8. Wisconsin — Seven Major Infractions: Just months after its basketball
program reached the Final Four in 2000, the Wisconsin athletic department
was embroiled in controversy. Twenty-six football players were suspended
prior to the season opener after the NCAA uncovered that members of the
Badgers’ football and basketball teams were given special credit
arrangements at a shoe store. A year later, Wisconsin began serving five
years of probation, which included scholarship reductions in both football
and basketball, for giving recruiting inducements and extra benefits and its
overall failure to properly monitor its athletic program. The Badgers have
managed to survive the last decade without any other major violations, and
the football and basketball programs have enjoyed consistent success.
9. Florida State — Seven Major Infractions: Former rival coach Steve
Spurrier once referred to FSU as Free Shoes University, a zinger derived
from a 1993 scandal in which nine Florida State players went on an agent-
funded shopping spree at Foot Locker. Six years later, also during a
national championship run, all-American wide receiver Peter Warrick and
Laveranues Coles were charged with felony grand theft for receiving $412.38-
worth of clothes from a Dillard’s cashier — they only paid $21.40. Warrick
was suspended for two games and Coles from thrown off the team. In 2009,
Bobby Bowden was forced to vacate 12 victories because of an academic
cheating scandal that also involved the men’s and women’s basketball,
baseball, softball and men’s track and field programs — a 2007 men’s
track national championship was vacated as well. The penalties ensured
Bowden wouldn’t catch Joe Paterno as the FBS’s all-time winningest coach.
10. Memphis — Seven Major Infractions: The good feelings that accompanied
Memphis State’s 1985 Final Four run diminished in the ensuing years as
karma, tragedy and bad luck befell various member of the team and coaching
staff. Head coach Dana Kirk was fired in 1986 after the NCAA uncovered
recruiting violations and vacated the 1985 Final Four appearance. He later
served a prison term for tax evasion, a crime he committed while he served
as the head coach. Star center William Bedford was drafted sixth overall in
the 1986 NBA draft, but his career was derailed by drug addiction, and he’s
currently serving a 10-year prison sentence. Reserve guard Aaron Price was
killed in a carjacking in 1998. Small forward Baskerville Holmes committed a
murder-suicide in 1997. Assistant coach Larry Finch suffered a series of
strokes that have left him debilitated. All of that was forgotten in 2008,
however, when John Calipari had the Tigers positioned to win the national
title. But that run was vacated by the NCAA in 2009, as Memphis was given
three years of probation for Derrick Rose’s fraudulent SAT score and the $1
,700 in free travel and lodging provided to his brother. Before penalties
were levied, Calipari bolted to Kentucky, which could soon find its way on
this list — the athletic program has six major infractions and the
basketball program narrowly escaped the death penalty in 1989. | f******o
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: Let’s face it, our favorite college programs cheat. That thoroughbred
: running back who’s expected to anchor your school’s offense over the next
: three or four years didn’t come cheap. Sure, your school may not have been
: caught lately, but that’s probably because the coaches and boosters do it
: more discreetly than others — and kudos to them, because getting away with
: it isn’t always easy. According to Insider Higher Ed, almost half of all
: big-time college sports programs have been punished for major violations by
: the NCAA during the last decade. These days, even the Ivies aren’t immune
: to major infractions. The following programs are the most notorious repeat
: offenders, the blatant cheaters who always seem to have NCAA investigators
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