NC$$ just sanctioned Michigan State for violations in its football program.
 
Lets compare and contrast with the UMaine Hockey program...shall we ?
 
According to the article I read State's football violations were as follows:
violations of rules on recruiting, benefits, academic eligibility, ethical
conduct and institutional control.  The probes centered around academic
fraud.
 
So, let's say for the categories of violations that State and Maine are the
same.  I acknowledge that the details of the violations may be different,
but were the categories of Maine's infractions any more numerous or severe
?  And please, I do know that other sports had problems at Maine, but the
hockey team received the most sanctions, and the most severe of those.
 
Now, let's learn what the NC$$ doled out in sanctions for Michgian State:
 
First, they accepted the school's own actions:
State placed their own program on probation for two years, retroactive to
Dec. 1995, fired its athletics student advisor and reassigned others
connected to the program during the time of the violations.
 
Then, the following were added by the NC$$:
Four years probation, from Dec. 1995, reduction by seven the initial
scholarships to assign to football players during 1997-98 academic year,
and cut by one the number of coaches who can recruit off campus during Dec.
1996 and Jan. 1997.
 
NOTE:  the sanctions did not include any ban from bowl games or television
appearances.
 
The question is:  Why was Maine treated the more severely of the two
programs for what looks remarkably like the same categories of problems ?
 
HOCKEY-L'ers:  was it something about being a hockey national champion ?
Or was it just 1 - A A  football treatment by the NC$$ ?  And, what about
the football programs who continue to harbor convicted criminals ?
 
 
 
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