At the time they hired Brown, they were completely irrelevant. They won the conference and made the tournament last year. Sure, they are on probation and cannot go to the tournament this year. However, if they did not hire him, they probably would not be in the tournament this year anyway. The alumni, students and fans got to enjoy one very good season in exchange for a year of probation. They would not admit it publicly but I bet many of them consider it a fair trade.
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Most of them will and some have admitted publicly that it was a good trade.
Same with UMASS and Calipari - they inducted him into the hall of fame last year.
That's my entire point on this matter. Cheating can pay off big time really quick, and since SMU the penalties haven't been bad enough to set a program back to where it started from. So they often end up ahead.
Not only does it elevate your program, it shuts down rivals. Look at USC - they came to dominate their old PAC-10 rivalry with UCLA. UCLA became irrelevant, USC prospered. Even with the sanctions, the damage to UCLA remains and they struggle to our recruit USC.
Same with UMASS and Calipari - they inducted him into the hall of fame last year.
That's my entire point on this matter. Cheating can pay off big time really quick, and since SMU the penalties haven't been bad enough to set a program back to where it started from. So they often end up ahead.
Not only does it elevate your program, it shuts down rivals. Look at USC - they came to dominate their old PAC-10 rivalry with UCLA. UCLA became irrelevant, USC prospered. Even with the sanctions, the damage to UCLA remains and they struggle to our recruit USC.
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