Syracuse: How Not to Win Friends and Influence the NCAA

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Attitude is everything. As Syracuse University heads into Sweet Sixteen action this Thursday against Indiana amid reports of a wide-ranging investigation of its athletics program, the Orangemen might be wise to remember that, instead of poking the NCAA snake.

Just before this year’s March Madness began, news broke that NCAA investigators were looking at the Athletic Department for a number of violations. As vigorously reported by The Post Standard of Central New York on syracuse.com, much of the not-so-rumored probe centers on the men’s basketball program over the past five years. Further, the inquiry is separate and unrelated to an earlier probe of alleged sexual abuse by former assistant coach Bernie Fine.

According to the Post Standard story that ran on March 20, 2013, NCAA investigators have conducted face-to-face interviews of Syracuse employees or former employees for at least the past school year in a broadly-scoped investigation that includes the handling of former basketball player Fab Melo’s academic eligibility and a 2007 alleged sexual assault case involving three other players.

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