If You Ain’t Cheatin’, You Ain’t Tryin’…

Seems Sir Charles was right after all.  Somehow, this wonderfully crafted piece by Dan Wetzel at YahooSports got past us for nearly a week before we found it.  Wetzel essentially fires a  Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US shot across the bow of the Good Ship NCAA, led by Capt. Myles Brand, for its notably lax invisible investigation and enforcement of NCAA rules among its two revenue cash cow sports, football and basketball. Doing some solid investigative work himself, Wetzel concludes that it’s been nearly two years since a major college basketball program was hit with a significant violation ( Kansas with Ol’ Roy’s largesse in Oct 2006 ), which is the longest such drought in almost a half-century.  Similarly, it’s been fifteen clean months in college football since the last major violation ( Oklahoma in July 2007 ).  So the reasonable conclusion here is that the NCAA has ... (link)