It’s amazing to me how certain programs get clobbered with NCAA sanctions while others skate free. The North Carolina situation, for example, where they ran a sham African American studies program to pass football and basketball players, perhaps the most egregious violation in amateur sports—the NCAA did nothing. Corey Magette with Duke when he received the 75,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables—the NCAA did nothing. By contrast, Kentucky basketball got hit with a 3-year ban from the NCAA tournament back in the late 80s because a booster sent a player a $1,000 and, allegedly, somebody took the SAT for a recruit.
The joke is if you can drive from Indy HQ on the NCAA expense account, and there is no need for overnight TL. Your penalties are intense... Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, South Bend, East Lansing and Lafayette . Illinois’ isn’t listed because any amounts of paying players will not produce a winner there.
The schools more than 200 miles away get away with anything. All sports the MID american conference and the BIG10...big Twenty are about tied for all penalties across all sports.
It’s more about time than anything else. The NCAA sees what’s going on with the super conferences. They know that they’re putting in the ground work to get out of the NCAA. Johnny Football’s half a game suspension was the beginning of the new era. They know that vacating wins and banning teams from post season play for years is just going to inspire the super conferences to make their move faster. They’re reduced to strongly worded letters for their own survival.