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"Clean" College Athletic Programs

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alexhortdog95;1928222; said:
OH.
MY.
GAWD.

Thanks. You just took what little innocense I had left :biggrin:.
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Welcome to the Big10.
Also - feeling pretty good about my Wake Forest pick. Georgia Tech would be up there too if not for the recruitment of Dennis Scott and Stephon Marbury in basketball.
 
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MaliBuckeye;1928233; said:
Wow, you make it sound like I linked you to "Two Huskers, One Cup". :biggrin:

The criterion was that there was a history of student athletes getting in trouble with the law, and gaining Fulmer Cup points. Yup, UNL's may be minor, but they're still there... we can't all by Auburn, right?
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The criteria was:

  1. No history of "lawlessness"- Students will be students, but the athletic program shouldn't be a regular player in the Fulmer Cup.
Describe a 'regular player'? We were in the top 10 one year due to one player who was a knucklehead, but not since then.
 
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alexhortdog95;1928283; said:
The criteria was:

  1. No history of "lawlessness"- Students will be students, but the athletic program shouldn't be a regular player in the Fulmer Cup.
Describe a 'regular player'? We were in the top 10 one year due to one player who was a knucklehead, but not since then.
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Great question, and this is where subjective comes in. Since this is about perspective (we can find stuff about Harvard if we ask Yale fans), perhaps it's the perspective of outsiders? When people think about your program, what comes to mind... and does that include legal problems.

For instance, PSU is pretty clean except for all of the minor arrests and stuff that they always seem to have. And that's how some people remember them, so it impacts this "survey".

Plus, you know Huskers are getting discounts at Runza Hut... you haven't be caught because your on-campus compliance office gets the same deal. :biggrin:
 
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MaliBuckeye;1928285; said:
Great question, and this is where subjective comes in. Since this is about perspective (we can find stuff about Harvard if we ask Yale fans), perhaps it's the perspective of outsiders? When people think about your program, what comes to mind... and does that include legal problems.

For instance, PSU is pretty clean except for all of the minor arrests and stuff that they always seem to have. And that's how some people remember them, so it impacts this "survey".

Plus, you know Huskers are getting discounts at Runza Hut... you haven't be caught because your on-campus compliance office gets the same deal. :biggrin:
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Meh, then I'll withdraw my Huskers from the list. Sounds a bit.....slanted....LOL

And that's RUNZA, not RUNZA Hut....that's down in Kansas somewhere :biggrin:
 
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MaliBuckeye;1928289; said:
Where I'm at, football is where you hide the track scholarships. :)
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"He's just another gangbanger with speed!"
- Ray Griffin, The Program

And my all-time favorite quote from that movie:

"Ima bust yo gut open and watch you bleeed!"
- Alvin Mack, The Program
 
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alexhortdog95;1928288; said:
Meh, then I'll withdraw my Huskers from the list. Sounds a bit.....slanted....LOL
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To me, the bigger strike against Nebraska is that they've had basically no meaningful success at all in their second money sport. There are a lot of programs that are consistently good-to-very-good in one money sport. There are only a few that are consistently so in both, or at least have some tradition of success in both money sports.
 
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zincfinger;1928257; said:
I personally think that is the question to a very substantial extent. That being said, I think a reasonable minimal requirement is, if you're a University employee with responsibility for minimizing this stuff, don't personally do anything that explicitly violates the rules. Because if you do and it's found out, you brought upon yourself the forthcoming colonoscopy. This is where I say that Tressel/OSU, while being probably at worst run-of-the-mill on this stuff, still largely deserve what they get.
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That's the thing, we literally would of NEVER heard about this if the tatoo owner pays his taxes. What were the odds of him getting investigated by the FBI?
 
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zincfinger;1928307; said:
To me, the bigger strike against Nebraska is that they've had basically no meaningful success at all in their second money sport. There are a lot of programs that are consistently good-to-very-good in one money sport. There are only a few that are consistently so in both, or at least have some tradition of success in both money sports.
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That's about to change....

http://columbustelegram.com/sports/college/article_e8c9e226-84fb-11e0-9c4f-001cc4c03286.html

Erstad is Erstad....but he was just a punter, LOL

What?s more, his volunteer coach this season was former Husker Darin Erstad, the first pick of the 1995 Major League Baseball draft, the punter on Osborne?s 1994 national championship football team and a guy who along with his wife donated $1 million to his alma mater.

"I appreciate the efforts of Mike and his coaching staff, but I have made the decision to change the direction of our program," Osborne said in the statement released by NU officials.

So much for supposed favoritism.

Pitching coach Eric Newman, whose young group was the strength of the 2011 team, said the entire staff was fired during a meeting in Osborne?s office around noon Sunday.

"He (Osborne) was very sympathetic," Newman said. "At one point, he got kind of emotional."
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alexhortdog95;1928320; said:
That's about to change....

http://columbustelegram.com/sports/college/article_e8c9e226-84fb-11e0-9c4f-001cc4c03286.html

Erstad is Erstad....but he was just a punter, LOL
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I was defining the "money sports" as football and men's basketball. Success in baseball is great, and I personally would place it as being at least equal to women's basketball (in contrast to the original criteria laid out in the question), but it's certainly second-tier after football and men's basketball. So if Nebraska is going to get into the club of programs who are successful in the two money sports, they at least need to start making the NCAA men's basketball tourney semi-consistently.
 
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Well, if you're talking success in only one major sport (and the original question said at least one major sport), then we should be able to add Butler and Gonzaga to the list.

If you're looking for occasional moderate success, then I'd put any of the service academies and Northwestern on the list...but that wasn't the original question, so I can't add them in good faith.
 
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