Hi - On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Mike Abegg wrote: > The Tuesday (Oct 22) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) is reporting that > the University of Minnesota has suspended head hockey coach Doug Woog > for this weekend's 2-game series at Minnesota-Duluth and will reduce > scholarships by one for the 1997-98 season. > > These sanctions are the penalties for a self-reported NCAA rules > violation. The violation concerns Woog's passing $500 from a booster to > then-Gopher defenseman Chris McAlpine to help pay his spring 1994 tuition. > > Probably of more concern than anything else is the fact that Woog > appears to have known that what he was doing was wrong, but went ahead > and did it anyway. Not wanting to start a flame war, but .... Where have I heard this attitude expressed before ?!? The mind-numbing parade of DivI Ice Hockey coaches (and even certain Conference officials) who have recently been accussed of varying degrees of NC$$ "malfeaseance" is a blot on the sport that will not soon go away. Nor does it reflect well on the administrations of the school(s) in question that - with rare exceptions - seem to believe that (a) self- reporting somehow absolves them from futher responsibility/recriminations, and (b) the glare of the spotlight is somehow a magical balm that will instill deep feelings of regret, remorse, and shame in the hearts of the wronged parties, followed by a new outlook of goodness and light - Father Flanagan himself could not be expected to behave more saintly. Puulleeze .... It's time to stop coddling the egregious rule-breakers and go for the jugular; do the crime - do the time .... no exceptions. Disgustedly in Maryland - Jim HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.