At 02:57 PM 2/14/97 -0500, Howard Quimby wrote:
 
>This isn't intended to start a bunch of Maine bashing.  Now that everything
>has been resolved, I'm just looking for a re-cap of why the Championship was
>in question and what the NCAA reasoning was for not taking it away.
 
Mike Dunham received a stipend for playing on the Olympic team that his
mother deposited into his account without Mike's or Maine's knowledge.
 
Mrs. Dunham was told by USA Hockey that the money was permissible under NCAA
rules, a blatant error.
 
That was the issue in question, and the NCAA ruled that Dunham and his
family made a "good faith effort" to obtain the correct information, and
that the University of Maine was unaware of this money.
 
Had the Dunham family not been given the misinformation or the University of
Maine known and still played Dunham, the title would have likely been
stripped.  The NCAA found that there was no attempt to deceive here, and
past evidence says the NCAA doesn't bat an eye at stripping titles.  They
must have been convinced in their decision.
 
The other issue was Cal Ingraham, but that penalty was served at the start
of the 1993-94 season where Ingraham was forced to sit out 14 games, and
Maine forfeited some games in 1990-1 I believe.  To penalize Maine again for
Ingraham would have been "double-jeopardy".
 
With this, the NCAA reviewed Ingraham's situation during the 1993-94 season
and could have stripped the title then had they found that to be the best
cause of action, since Ingraham played on the title team.
 
So in a sense the NCAA has twice upheld Maine's title.
 
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