SMU- Larry Brown

[CoachTalk]

Facing tough ncaa penalties. Lack of control...

Shake come home! Lol

 

[ouboomer]

SMU and lack of institutional control, somethings never change. Amazing how a small private school is always busted but some big programs never get caught breaking the rules.

 

[OUHoops]

Facing tough ncaa penalties. Lack of control...

Shake come home! Lol

OU is looking for a PG, you know. And he wants to play PG.

And the basketball Gods owe still owe OU after letting Scotty Reynolds go, and Damion James go free and clear to Texas.

Guessing he's already enrolled down there in summer school so not sure how that transfer would work if he wants to leave.

 

[Salt City Sooner]

SMU and lack of institutional control, somethings never change. Amazing how a small private school is always busted but some big programs never get caught breaking the rules.

You might want to spread a little of that indignation around a bit, because last I checked, the coach who got KU on probation & thusly unable to defend the title they won in '88 was none other than Larry Brown. Coincidence? Maybe, but I ain't holdin' my breath.

 

[Eielson]

This is why you don't go to crap programs just for the coach.

 

[usedtobe1]

Lack of institutional control is what Syracuse recently got penalized for. I think it was worse than the SMU case..... It took the NCAA 8 years to investigate Syracuse. Jim Boheim got suspended for 9 games, forfeited 108 games, lost 12 scholarships over 4 years, and were banned from post season play one year.

Nothing has been announced about SMU's penalties.

 

[ouboomer]

Lack of institutional control is what Syracuse recently got penalized for. I think it was worse than the SMU case..... It took the NCAA 8 years to investigate Syracuse. Jim Boheim got suspended for 9 games, forfeited 108 games, lost 12 scholarships over 4 years, and were banned from post season play one year.

Nothing has been announced about SMU's penalties.

i am just waiting to see what they do with UNC, seems like we have been waiting on the hammer to fall on them for awhile now.

 

[sperry]

i am just waiting to see what they do with UNC, seems like we have been waiting on the hammer to fall on them for awhile now.

They're unlikely to do anything. Basketball is the NCAA's cash cow, since (at least for now), they negotiate the tv contract for March Madness. They'll end up doing something like they did with Syracuse, and ban them from post season play for a season they weren't going to make the tournament anyway.

 

[j2d2]

The national communists against athletes may be playing the "Heavy, heavy hangs over thy head" delay game to mess with the UNC recruiting just as they tried with OU.

 

[DenverSooner]

Maybe its no big deal like the cash payments to graduating KU players. That one was a real head scratcher. That seems like a major violation to me. How about this, we start giving players $1,000,000 when they leave (after eligibility is up). We let them know this is not guaranteed but standard practice. You think that might impact recruiting?

If you say the amount matters, I would reference an old joke. A man asks a woman if she would sleep with him for a $1,000,000 and the woman says I guess so. The man then says would you sleep with me for $20 and the woman says what do you think I am, a prostitute! The man, my dear we have already established that and now we are negotiating price.

If cash payments are wrong, cash payments are wrong. I guess when you are KU or UNC things like this are not a big deal but a small loan to get transcripts so a kid can actually attend college is a major violation.

 

[vbdad]

Larry Brown has plenty of institutional control. He has been shady his entire career and nothing has changed.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

“I’m confident we’re going to move on and continue to try to do the right thing.” (Larry Brown)

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews...tion-im-confident-were-going-to-move-on.html/

This is the third time a program of Brown’s has faced major NCAA charges. After infractions at UCLA and Kansas, both of those programs were hit with major sanctions.

Brown, in a phone interview Thursday with SNY.tv that was summarized by Zagsblog.com, pushed back against the notion that he was involved in the violations at his previous college stops.

“Why would they hire me here [at SMU],” he told the outlet, “if there was any things hanging over my head?”

 

[usedtobe1]

I've always thought Larry Brown was a jerk. A great coach, yes. Still an arrogant jerk. JMHO.
Of course KU fans say the same thing about Billy.

Hiring Danny Manning's truck driver father as an assistant coach was a brilliant move on Brown's part. It got him a national championship.

Manning Hire

 

[AdaSooner]

“I’m confident we’re going to move on and continue to try to do the right thing.” (Larry Brown)

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews...tion-im-confident-were-going-to-move-on.html/

I found this question by Brown in the quotes you posted interesting:

“Why would they hire me here [at SMU],” he told the outlet, “if there was any things hanging over my head?”

I can answer that question, Larry. For the same reason UK hired John Calipari after he left Memphis. There are others like you and good ol' Johnnie, but you get the idea.

These guys keep landing on their feet at other programs because they have enjoyed success as a coach and as a recruiter at other programs. Most of them wise up and stop breaking the rules, or they just get smarter at hiding their tracks. Take your pick. Since this appears to be Brown's third offense, guess he didn't learn anything after his first or second screw up.