Congrats NENCHeel and the rest of your crew that stop by from time to time. Classic game. Both teams played their butts off.Guys trust me..you are VERY welcome.
Seriously I have to hand it to the kitties...their players left everything on the floor. Great game, great loud fans at the game, just glad we won. As for Ruptured Rafters, I don't have a biohazard suit so I'll pass on going there tonight.
No complaints here. That's good strategy on UNC's part and bad on ours. We should have followed their example.
Yet to be determined. You have no clue how the UNC situation will shake out at UNC. And there's a vast difference between what happened down there vs. what occurred here. I wouldn't be so quick to praise anybody when comes to the fickle NCAA. Our situation will be resolved and settled while they'll still have it hanging over their heads. No thanks I want the nightmare to end.
Well, let's talk about what we do know...
I actually bought a Carolina blue shirt (Not an actual UNC T-shirt) and wore it yesterday.
Well, count me as a fan who doesn't think the end justifies the means...I still think it was the right call regardless of what the NCAA does...at the end of the day we have to look ourselves in the mirror and I won't judge us based on the actions of others. UNC, or whoever, can do what they think is in their best interest; but I'm a proponent of owning up and getting the crap behind us.
Why would UNC take a self imposed basketball ban when it is the academic department in question? That's the difference. We know our basketball players, prospects and staff were involved. Enough evidence was provided to the president, AD and head coach that they agreed to take the punishment. UNC knows that it will be difficult to prove that the academic department deliberately used resources for the benefit of passing basketball players orchestrated by the coaching staff. Too difficult to prove the connection and UNC knows it. Two completely different scenarios. Time to move on from that argument.
Then, why do some of our fans keep bringing up UNC as a barometer for our situation? I don't really disagree with you, but I think many of our fans probably do...
Owning up is fine, but your school did more than that... It also decided the appropriate punishment AND it assumed it was operating in good faith with the NCAA. Both could have been bad decisions, and the latter looks for sure like it was.
For sure if Mitchell goes pro, you have no better feel for next year than you did last year. Both teams will be/would have been strong...
Your once again assuming that the NCAA won't drop those banners which in UNCs case is a real possibility, which is why they are fighting like they are. The allegations against UNC are pretty severe and player involved did play in those championships. As you know makes it very different than us. We were guilty just face it. We need to take our medicine and move on. Will survive.
And it's not about being a good guy it's about moving the program forward. Getting this in our past as quick as possible.
That's your problem...you ain't "getting this in your past." You miscalculated. (Not you personally...)
Money is not the improper benefit it's the promise or seemingly promise of a sexual act. And you can't put a value on that even though the ho's charged a certain amount. Doesn't matter if they were $10 hookers or $1000 prostitutes. Sex for money in Kentucky is illegal.
I don't second-guess too many decisions in the heat of the moment. When a coach has 30 seconds, you can't sleep on it overnite and make an informed decision tomorrow. That wasn't the case here. We had highly paid executives, and one paid assassin who was an expert in NCAA investigations. Hell yes, their decisions can be reviewed and analyzed for how good they were, just like any executive in this country running a multimillion-dollar operation.
