College basketball: Five consequences of FBI investigation

Accountability for coaches

It’s always amazing the hypocrisy displayed by college coaches sometimes. First, they preach about sticking to commitments and not leaving when the going gets rough. Then about ten minutes later, they decide to leave themselves, calling it a business decision.

Mind you that’s a year after looking both the kid and his parents in the eye and pledging that they’ll take care of him for the next four years.

But the growing trend happening with coaches is this new “plausible deniability,” where they claim to have no knowledge of any improper event going on.

Roy Williams claimed to not know anything during the school’s academic scandal, where both athletes and players were taking sham classes for good grades. For coaches who plead with players to take responsibility for their actions, these coaches are more and more deflecting blame.

But that excuse isn’t working anymore, both legally and public relations wise. Jim Boeheim and Rick Pitino have both been charged with failing to monitor their programs for the transgressions that occurred.

The NCAA isn’t buying the excuse anymore, and neither is the media and fans. Each time a statement came from a school or the head coach claiming they “knew nothing,” a collective eye roll comes across social media. It’s the coach’s job to know everything that’s going on and anything less isn’t acceptable anymore — from both the institution and fans alike.