Comments on: Georgetown facing NCAA Probation

By: Mary Smith

Mary Smith — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:03:44 +0000

The whole college athlete situation sickens me. Are we supposed to believe that Georgetown is the only school doing this. The colleges already tolerate admitting students who do not belong there academically while rejecting more qualified students. I know of an athlete with mediocre grades with no honors or AP classes accepted to Georgetown. All he had to do was break 1000 on his SATs!!!! While students with more rigorous courses, better grades and test scores were rejected!!! And we wonder why we are lagging the rest of the civilized world academically.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:22:41 +0000

This is quite an atrocious article. It sickens me that a coach could sink to such lows as to ask players to forge their timecards. I can’t believe they actually thought they would get away with it. This sort of thing should not be tolerated in professional sports, yet it continues to take the spotlight in our sports newscasts. The professionals should be acting as role models, not acting as examples of what NOT to be.

By: Brian Foley

Brian Foley — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:07:32 +0000

William,

I think this situation is actually worse then the OU football case as the Georgetown assistant coach was teaching his student-athletes how to fudge the numbers.

By: Blowhard Muir

Blowhard Muir — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:04:10 +0000

They didn’t even have scholarships in the first place, so the kids had to do work study to pay for their tuition. And it sounds like the kids were doing work, just not the full amount. What a rinky dink operation- they don’t deserve to be in the Big East.

By: Brian Foley

Brian Foley — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:02:30 +0000

I was on the conference call today with Daniel Porterfield where he was asked about whether they would have to forfeit victories and he seemed like it wasn’t a big deal to do that.

His reasoning behind it is the fact that the team had a record of 135-246 overall record while going 46-136 in the Big East conference during this time period.

Also, I love how the university refused to give the program the increase in three scholarships between the 2008 and 2009 seasons.

By: William Knox

William Knox — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:54:07 +0000

No Big East tournament appearances during that time? If you’re gonna risk cheating, at least do it to win.

It also sounds very familiar to the OU football situation with Rhett Bomar, although OU was smart enough to outsource their dirty work.