I actually kinda like Bilas, but he is NOT a legal scholar folks. Yes, he has a point that is valid, but he is way too quick to allow UNC off the hook because academic irregularities (sounds so nice and simple when said that way) can’t be classified as “impermissible benefits”
First, that is total horsecrap! The players received “impermissible benefits”, regardless of what anyone says. Tell the NCAA to sack up and take another pass on that NOA.
Seriously, if all Louisville students received free sex (er, “physical irregularities”) at these parties, would it then be ok? Of course not! Also, if Pitino should have known, why shouldn’t at least one single UNC coach have known?
Sorry, but Jay Bilas seems way too quick to use to the letter of the law to give them a pass, rather than acknowledge the repeated cheating and use the letter of the law to identify where they violated the rules (regardless of the changing NOAs).
Come Jay, sack up and at least call it lack of institutional control.
I will promise you that there are “females” and other illicit things used to entice recruits and to keep players. Louisville was only “one of many”. It’s been going on for years…Jeez, even “Friday Night Lights” touched on that at the high school level.
"Whomp 'em, Up, Side the Head"!
