NDSU president: Privacy laws, complicated process adds to confusion of football players’ disciplinary review
September 14, 2012 at 2:00 am in Grand Forks Herald
President Dean Bresciani admits there’s still some confusion about the complicated process of punishing students who break the law, even after he issued two statements in two days explaining how North Dakota State University is handling 10 football players accused of petition fraud. Continue Reading
haha, these officials need to clarify their clarification….glad they are our leaders in that school
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Just win, baby!
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Let’s drag this out to the end of the season. Unbelievable!
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Have to say I appreciate the message and clarifications. President Bresciani is having to deal with an athletic department that is used to brushing these things under the carpet. Most NDSU supporters realize there has to be consequences for actions no matter how good an athlete you are.
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Sounds to me like the NDSU administration is hoping this thing will blow over, and giving themselves an out if it stays in the public eye. Pretty weird of the AD and the coach to be so clear about there being no suspensions if in fact there is a review process still in play.
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Make sure you are clear. When a coach states there will be no suspensions that means from his team. They still have to answer to both the courts and the University. The University could decide to suspend them from the University and the court could give them jail time. Either action would result in them not playing.
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If only tuition and taxes were higher, things like this wouldn’t happen.
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Criminals on the West end of the state haven’t been arrested, fired, or lost their professional licenses.
Why wouldn’t NDSU hope to slide in under the radar, too?
Innocent until proven guilty? Sure. Let ‘em play football. When they’re convicted, they get thrown off the team, and off the campus. Hopefully, they’ll have a different “dormitory” to live in…a prison cell.
‘Course, that’d be the same policy I’d take with the “indecent exposure” member of the team, too.
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alvin, It was an A misdemeanor, one step below a felony. And they have confessed. You can’t put lipstick on this pig. It isn’t a speeing ticket, nor even a DUI. They have not been suspended because they play football, and are starters. That’s it. NDSU has always been nothing but a football school, that is its claim to fame. Maybe they should just close down the academic side and do nothing but sports.
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Attempting to detour the discussion by throwing an ad hominem at me doesn’t change the facts of the case.
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I’m not talking about the value of the academic side of NDSU. I’m talking about a mindset among coaches, administration, and fanatics which implies that the place exists for football. When Bresciani screams about being underfunded, he threatens students and the legislature with the elimination of academic programs…the athletic dept is never mentioned. When Bohl pontificates about the football players in question, Bresciani stands there and doesn’t say a thing. Seems he doesn’t believe he has authority over them or the coach. And, of course, the fanatics see no reason to do anything which would put football in danger.
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The code of student life they agreed to when made the decision to attend NDSU does not adhere to innocent until proven guilty standard that the court must abide by.
I’m so tired of that argument.
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The “day in court” argument was a red herring from the beginning. They already confessed. Quetion is, will they plea to a lesser charge in exchange for testifying against the petition company? Then Bohl can refer to them as upstanding young men doing their civic duty.
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Seems pretty simple to me you defrauded the voters of an entire state and cost the company you were working for thousands of dollars hmmm suspended seems fair instead of finish the season and next semester take an ethics class.
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