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6/26 NCAA puts Cal football on five years probation for academic fraud.
http://calbears.ocsn.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/062602aaa.html
\_ Not only did Tom Holmoe make us arguably the worst
division 1A football program in the nation for such
a large public university, he was cheating to get us
there. Just great.
\_ As if the one year ban from postseason actually hurts Cal. It's
like banning the Cubs from the World Series.
\_ hey, the Cubs almost made it to the World Series.
\_ yeah, just one time, back in '89 until the Giants laid the
smackdown in NLCS.
\_ The cubs have made it to the world series before (I think
it was 1930 or so)
\_ Cal should disband it's athletics program and not stoop down to
schools that also accept dolts with 400 SAT scores. They are the
reason classes like physics for poets exist.
\_ Cal should stop accepting students who don't
know the difference between "its" and "it's".
\_ D00D U R 50 R1GH7!
\_ too bad you don't realize that 1)universities make lots of
money thru athletic programs and 2) good athletics brings
prestige to universities and 3) a university full of
gEECS would be more boring than you can imagine.
\_ I have read a couple of studies where economists have
figured out that at a large university, pouring
money into a sports program ends up merely contributing
to a vicious spiral of more alumni donations that
go to more sports construction that leads to seeking
more alumni donations, so if the goal of your
institution is to have a giant money sucking
sports program, that's great, but if you instead
want to teach students or conduct research, it's
not worth it. But hey FUCKING WIN THE BIG GAME ALREADY.
\_ yeah, just look at CalTech
\_ boring? As if you interact with those animals at all
anyway. Fortunately for you sports loving geeks, those
sub-human rapist freaks only go to the same school as
you in name only.
\_ It's about being able to go to games, not hanging
out with them.
\_ Buy season tickets to a local professional team.
You'll see better sports from better athletes and
a Fields medal is, except for about 1000 people or so.
millions, literally, know about sports.
will have that many fewer rapist animals on or near
the same campus you're trying to get an education
from.
\_ more... or less? I think you mean more
\_ I mean less. If Cal does away with the
idiotic 400 SAT scoring sub-humans on the
sports side of things, there will be fewer
rapists on/near campus. I mean "less".
\_ I wasn't aware the football team was
full of date rapers, I thought that was
the rugby team?
\_ Who said "date rapers"? I said "rapers".
\_ when was the last time a cal football
team member raped someone? don't get
confused with the Oakland Raiders.
\_ Too bad you don't realize that 1) if money is the focus
of your life, then will be screwed 2) the prestiege
Cal could garner other than "our recruiting department
beat your recruiting department" is nil 3) who said
jettisoning the jocks means ONLY more gEECS
\_ 1) Cal makes more money via donations from Eng. alum
and the companies they work for and own than from
the sports program.
2) Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals bring prestige to
universities. A million superbowl rings can't even
begin to compare to a Nobel Prize or a Fields Medal.
\_ true, for the most part. but I guarantee you that
10 years of consecutive national wins in a major
sport (football or basketball) will earn as much
attention and, in turn, respect as will a Nobel
or Fields medal. hell, people don't even know what
a Fields medal is, except for about 1000 people or
so. millions, literally, know about sports.
\_ It's the wrong kind of attention. Would you
rather be trying to form a career with a Cal
degree on your resume or a school with a great
football team and third world academics? Yep....
\_ Right, that why schools like Nebraska, Miami, and
Florida St. are so prestigious. |
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| calbears.ocsn.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/062602aaa.html -> calbears.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/062602aaa.html In publicly reprimanding the university for a 1999 academic fraud case and other rule infractions involving the Cal football program during the past five years, the NCAA imposed a one-year postseason ban (2002) and placed the school on five years probation. In addition, the football program was penalized further by the loss of nine grant-in-aid scholarships over the next five seasons (2002-06). In the case of academic fraud, there is no university that takes this issue more seriously. For this isolated incident of academic impropriety we accepted without challenge scholarship loss and probation from the Pac-10 -- indeed we self-imposed those sanctions. However, in the case of the additional infractions, the NCAA-imposed penalties appear unduly excessive and that is why we have decided to appeal," said Chancellor Berdahl. In regards to the academic case, the NCAA's findings were similar to those issued by the Pacific-10 Conference last June. California's football program has already fulfilled its Pac-10 penalty of losing four scholarships, as the Golden Bears played last season with only 81 scholarship players. This new NCAA ruling, if upheld, means Cal would operate with 83 football players on grant-in-aid awards during the next four years and would field 84 scholarship players in 2006, before returning to the NCAA limit of 85 scholarships in 2007. Gladstone, who assumed his current athletic director duties last June. While we anticipated that there would be added sanctions by the NCAA, we certainly are surprised by the severity of this penalty. The two student-athletes then competed in the fall of 1999 while ineligible, having failed to properly earn the minimum number of academic credits required during the academic year for satisfactory progress to remain eligible. New to these original violations reported to the Pac-10 last year, Cal also informed the NCAA of 34 football student-athletes who received extra benefits while staying at hotels before competitions. In addition to the 34 Cal student-athletes named in the report, four football recruits visiting the campus also incurred hotel charges. These incidental violations, which occurred during a five-year period from 1997-2001, came to light during the university's self-reported investigative findings. News & World Report this year, the University of California fields nearly 1,000 student-athletes. Cal Golden Bears Header Image Cal Golden Bears Header Image Cal Golden Bears Header Image 36 You need Flash to view the Cal Bears Scoreboard. No logos, photographs or graphics on this site may be reproduced without written permission. |