re: Update on Will Wade Sanctions - Won't Receive Show Cause

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FYI. If they don’t follow their bylaws and sanction a coach or school in a way that blatantly ignores the bylaws and cost that coach/school income, they can be sued. The bylaws have a binding effect, just like a contract.

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Ok What program is going to do that?

I also follow Memphis basketball, so I have seen plenty of this same bullshite before. The NCAA has always had it in for Cal (and we all know why) but never could make anything stick to him, even at UMASS. They dug for a year at Memphis right before he left for UK and came up empty again. All they found that wound stick was and L2 over travel for Derrick Rose’s brother that wasn’t reimbursed and a couple of L3s.

But they could revisit Derrick Rose’s eligibility. They couldn’t make real allegations stick so they took all the wins and a tourney appearance with a run to the Championship Game that season out of spite. Cal was already gone, but that didn’t matter.

When the Memphis AD called the NCAA out for being petty and said the school would appeal, it was made clear that if he did that, the NCAA would come back and re-open their investigation until they found something else. The appeal was dropped.

So who wants to be the first school to file a lawsuit that could take a decade to see through and have to deal with the NCAA, who can openly threaten you anytime they feel like it, in the meantime?

Memphis did actually join the Wiseman family in suing the NCAA over his eligibility and even won a temporary injunction. Not quite the same a suing over major infractions or allegations, but they did stick a finger in the NCAA’s eye. There is still an NOA pending that the NCAA hit them with after that. It looks like most of it will come to nothing but self-imposed penalties, etc now, but without the lawsuit and playing Wiseman while the injunction held, those allegations and that NOA never happen.

Disgruntled coaches might sue the NCAA, but schools don’t because of shite like this.