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Syracuse University responds to harsh NCAA sanctions

By Jack Crosby

Mar 2, 2015; Syracuse, NY, USA; Syracuse Orange head coach Jim Boeheim congratulates forward Rakeem Christmas (25) for his efforts near the end of a game against the Virginia Cavaliers at the Carrier Dome. Virginia won the game 59-47. Mandatory Credit: Mark Konezny-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 2, 2015; Syracuse, NY, USA; Syracuse Orange head coach Jim Boeheim congratulates forward Rakeem Christmas (25) for his efforts near the end of a game against the Virginia Cavaliers at the Carrier Dome. Virginia won the game 59-47. Mandatory Credit: Mark Konezny-USA TODAY Sports /
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Syracuse University was quick to respond to the harsh sanctions that were levied against them on Friday afternoon. 

Friday afternoon the college basketball world was turned upside down with the news that the NCAA was not only coming down on Syracuse, but they were coming down hard. After an investigation that dated back nearly eight years, it was determined that head coach Jim Boeheim would be suspended for the first nine ACC games of next season and the school would lose three scholarships per season for the next for years.

While there have been some people that criticize the NCAA for not coming down hard enough on some schools, that is definitely not the case here. The NCAA blasted Syracuse and they blasted them to the fullest extent of their power, more or  less.

Well as you would expect, the program is not happy with the sanctions that may in fact cripple them for the foreseeable future.

A short time after the punishment was announced, the school released a lengthy statement, disagreeing with the punishment that was handed down to them.

"Syracuse University cooperated throughout the investigation, and its length is a product of decisions we made separately and together. Nevertheless, when I became Chancellor in 2014, I concluded that the process had gone on long enough, and it needed to reach a prompt conclusion. We have worked hard with the NCAA during the last year to complete this matter, and we have done so.Syracuse University did not and does not agree with all the conclusions reached by the NCAA, including some of the findings and penalties included in today’s report. However, we take the report and the issues it identifies very seriously, particularly those that involve academic integrity and the overall well-being of student-athletes."

Syracuse did cooperate with all of this, but in the end it was not ultimately enough. The infractions were too much to just let slide to the wayside, and now it will be very interesting to see how long it takes the program to recover from all of this.

Well, that’s if they can recover at all.

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