As kids in the little league we were always taught to play fair and not cheat.
Some how, later in life, at the university level, cheating translated into winning for some big programs.
That being said, Joe Rexrode of the Detroit Free Press writes:
Is Tom Izzo's Michigan State basketball roster lighter on talent because he wouldn't cheat to stack it? That's what one analyst and former coach suggested this week, in a rant on the state of college hoops.
Fran Fraschilla, an ESPN analyst and a head coach in 1992-2002 at Manhattan, St. John's and New Mexico, was co-hosting "College Sports Today" on SiriusXM radio Monday when a caller suggested that Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is being treated unfairly by the NCAA. Boeheim will be suspended for nine games next season, and Syracuse has to vacate 108 wins, based on recent NCAA findings of academic misconduct, improper benefits and other violations dating to 2001.
Fraschilla made the point that cheating "is not a victimless crime" because it means "a coach that doesn't cheat gets fired."
"When a coach gets caught cheating, they ought to throw the book at him," Fraschilla said. "Because there are a whole lot of other coaches out there, and I'll give you one example: The reason Tom Izzo doesn't have a great team right now is because he has not, quite frankly, he has lost some guys, at times, to schools that he wasn't willing to break rules for. And coaches who don't cheat will get fired if they don't win, and that's part of the problem I have with the NCAA. They ought to throw the book at all these guys that cheat."
