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What were people's reactions to the Xavier and Cincinnati basketball brawl yesterday?

 

I am a Xavier Alum. I think XU looks really bad in all of this, but UC for not standing strong on their post game words looks weak.

 

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/gametracker/recap/NCAAB_20111210_CIN@XAVIER/brawl-ends-game-in-cincinnati

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/977367-uc-xavier-fight-video-crosstown-shootout-marred-by-shocking-on-court-brawl

 

Just curious on Public Opinion.

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Huggins created that absurd excuse for a "program" at Cincinati. Here's a nice synopsis:

 

In all, according to the University of Cincinnati, there had been no less than 21 players under Coach Huggins who have had, to use their term, “significant encounters with law enforcement.” These “encounters” included arrests for domestic violence, rape and DUI. One guy even punched a police horse. Another, Donald Little, taped his roommate to a lawn chair, threw weights at his head, clubbed him with a whiskey bottle and burned him with a heated coat hanger. He then stabbed him for good measure.

 

Even after his contract was not extended in May 2005, and Huggins was considered to be on probation by the university, he still saw an incoming player charged with statutory rape, less than a month after forward Roy Bright was arrested for bringing a concealed weapon on campus.

 

As for academics, 27 of 95 Huggins' players graduated from Cincinnati or another university in his 16 years. That’s a 28% graduation rate overall, including those students who transferred. Huggins also had four seasons where the NCAA reported the Cincinnati men’s basketball graduation rate to be zero. Even at the time Huggins was forced to resign, again according to university officials, one of his players had been maintaining a 0.0 GPA, and another would have had a 0.0 if not for two incompletes.

 

Finally, Cincinnati was placed on probation by the NCAA in 1998, citing a lack of institutional control.

 

When he signed at KState, he got an 800K bonus if he didn't do anything to jeopardize the university's reputation. Basically, a "don't Joe Paterno us over a child rapist and you'll get a million bucks" clause.

 

Both schools should be tossing kids off the team immediately for the violence and postgame comments. But just like at Penn State, the programs' survivals are too important to the "schools."

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"School."

 

Cincinnati hasn't cared about it's hoops player's educations in forever.

 

No doubt.

 

But I would still like to have seen that happen.

 

If these were non-basketball kids that started/participated a fight like that on campus, there is a good chance they would get kicked out of school. At least put on double secret probation.

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What were people's reactions to the Xavier and Cincinnati basketball brawl yesterday?

 

I am a Xavier Alum. I think XU looks really bad in all of this, but UC for not standing strong on their post game words looks weak.

 

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/gametracker/recap/NCAAB_20111210_CIN@XAVIER/brawl-ends-game-in-cincinnati

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/977367-uc-xavier-fight-video-crosstown-shootout-marred-by-shocking-on-court-brawl

 

Just curious on Public Opinion.

 

And I'm a UC alum and I want to punch you in the face. :)

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