Fordham has been placed on probation for three years, forced to vacate 42 wins over the 21-22 and 22-23 seasons and fined $35K, plus 2% of their MBB budget, (which I assume probably comes to less than $100), for recruiting violations. I know we like to complain a lot around here but it could be worse. Your program could be cheating and still be horrible.
We did not lose to them in either of those seasons, in fact, we are 23-2 all time against Fordham.
The biggest surprise of this news is that they had 42 wins in two years.
This is complete bullsh*t. Is Cleveland State next?
The NCAA can't win a case in court. Fordham University should sue them.
No wonder they can't recruit anyone giving them Giants and Jets Tix. I am kinda surprised about the Times Square photos given that Fordham has a campus not far from there (Lincoln Center) and the Yankees are in the Bronx (although the right seat at Yankee Stadium is quite the premium).
YOU ARE CORRECT! My Giants have failed in so many ways over the decade I would still take the tixs but only if they were 'free'.
Now take me to a great restaurant in NYC and we got something to think about! Of course you pick up the parking too and maybe we got a deal.
I wonder what will happen with recruiting rules in the new NCAA. I mean they can tell the schools what to do but I think a booster could do whatever they want as far as wining and dinning recruits.
The NIL just gives the recruit an advance and the recruit buys the tickets and dinner and the photographer waiting in the wings and the recruit takes the coaches out to dinner, etc. the coaches just tell him to keep his receipts because they are probably tax deductible for him.
This is so namby-pamby to be placed on probation and vacating 'all their wins'. Like Cleveland State I wonder which one of the blue bloods (was it Duke, NC, KY, Houston, etc) that was discovered to have serious violations.
Some one had to pay, so Fordham its' your turn.
With some sleaze coaches still around the college scene I wonder why the programs then run are never ever found 'guilty by association'.
In other news, France is required to give back the Alsace region to Germany after it was discovered they used too many bullets trying to defend it during the opening days of World War II.
Fordham, over the past few decades cheated and broken the rules by subterfuge, it's about time they paid the price.
Yea Right!!!!!!!!!!
Either there are rules are there are not rules. If there are rules they should be enforced regardless of who the violator is, how good their program is, etc... The one phrase I will be fine if I never hear again as long as I live, is "no one is above the law." The reality has become that we demand enforcement against the people we don't like and are willing to look the other way when it is a person or issue we favor. So in essence, everyone is potentially above the law depending on who is enforcing it and how they feel about a particular person or issue. I understand that all these rules are now in flux, (although as of today it is a violation for the school to directly provide unsanctioned benefits to recruits). I get that it seems ridiculous to sanction Fordham but either there are rules or there are not rules.
