OT-KU and Bill Self a familar road.
Bill Self gets a pass by many. Being Lawrence Kansas the local media and much of the school is in his hip pocket and very little is done to dig deep. Yahoo sports is at it again sniffing around KU athletics.
If you are curious here is a TLDR of Bill Self in all of his Francis Underwood of NCAA basketball glory...
Could you possibly link to this instead of embedding a giant timeline of text?
It's more like TL;CPR
Too long; couldn't possibly read
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I warned TLDR
What is the point of blockquoting the whole article when you already link it?
Hey LJ if you ever used the MgoBlog app on your droid phone links are BRUTAL-embeds are appreciated.
Kinda odd since Syracuse just got hammered by the NCAA.
HELLLOOOOOO
I took down the blockquote of the article, we can't have entire articles copy/pasted.
Appreciated-understood will be more careful.
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I have no idea if Kansas is dirty or not, but people could make the same argument about Ann Arbor, especially when factoring in the weather. The fact is, tradition matters for recruiting, and Kansas has it. It's not surprising that they recruit well.
Although Kansas as a whole is probably not much to dream about, I believe Lawerence is routinely listed as one of the best, most iconic campuses in the country. I've been there before expecting wheat fields, farms, etc. However, the town is pretty cool and reminds me a lot of Boulder, CO (just without the mountains...very similiar vibes though).
You cannot remotely compare Kansas to Michigan in the improper benefits department. Kansas is pretty well known as a team whose boosters are quite "active" in player procurement.
When Michigan cheats with the big boys, they recruit classes like the Fab Five. When they have a coach who headed the NCAA Ethics Committee, they have years like this one where they couldn't "reload" fast enough to replace the players they developed.
"Same argument in Ann Arbor?" Puh-leeze...
We're really not in a position to complain here. The Ed Martin scandal was one of the largest (in terms of the amount of money changing hands) in NCAA history. And actually, we weren't even really punished that severely. We just happened to make a couple of poor hires.
This is the funny thing that many don't get.
The sanctions may have derailed UM for the 90s, but UM was very close to hiring Rick Pitino in the early 00s.
Who knows where Michigan would be if Pitino was hired. Probably would have a couple of championships in the 00s instead of misery.
The sanctions were actually from 2002-06 but we only lost one scholarship per year for four years, which is pretty inconsequential The only real gut punch was being banned from the postseason for a season.
I live in Kansas, about a thirty minute drive from Basketball Central (where nobody pays attention to the brown prolate spheroid ball). And while I have no idea how many NCAA rules are quietly broken in the shadows, I'll say this: winning makes a difference. There are people around here who offer up a sinister laugh when KU loses a basketball game, but they don't get to laugh as often as they'd like. Me? I like to watch a well-played game, so if they play well, I'll watch.