To: tarheel4life who wrote (60 ) 2/15/2000 7:18:00 PM From: Puck Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Given the scandals recently enveloping other programs at places like Michigan and, in football, Northwestern and Notre Dame, I wonder if other people on the thread think scandal could just as easily occur at Duke and UNC, and that those schools have just essentially gotten lucky that it has not yet hit. Otherwise known as: There but for the grace of God go I. Perhaps the players at Duke aren't quite as desperate financially, all in all, as players at other schools, perhaps they are a little more focused on receiving their diplomas, and perhaps there are more internal controls at Duke and within it's community of supports, and perhaps the players Duke recruits are less apt to invite disaster unto themselves and their program. I guess that, to date, the fact that scandal has not hit any Duke programs is as much a matter of luck as anything else. I'm trying to think of NCAA rules violations occuring at Duke and UNC and can't come up with anything historically. Can anyone help me with this? I can't think of Wake Forest being implicated in any nefarious activities regarding athletics either. I think NC State might have gotten into trouble in Valvano's last years but can't remember. Whenever my old high school friends who attended high and mighty Yale University tease me about attending a jock factory (translation: a school with athletic scholarships), I quickly remind them that in 1973 the Yale mens basketball program was placed on probation for utilizing a player who wasn't even enrolled at the school, which just proves a point. Back in the early seventies, if it could happen at the academic fortress we know as Yale, it could really probably happen anywhere.
