No one really cares about basketball in the Ivy League, so why is Tommy Amaker trying so badly to win there? Hasn’t he realized that the Coach K endorsement has worn itself out? In case you missed it, the New York Times had a piece on this yesterday: Harvard has been cheating in trying to win in men’s basketball. I know, it’s pretty hilarious.

Amaker had this guy named Kenny Blakeney, who was a player at Duke while Amaker was an assistant there, play a bunch of pick-up basketball with potential Harvard recruits. At the time of the games and the multiple phone conversations, Blakeney wasn’t on the Harvard staff, but once we has, the recruits came right along! Tommy, you just have to be swifter than that.

Silly, stupid, smart guys.

While what Times reporter Pete Thamel uncovered isn’t the juicy stuff they make movies about – fixed SAT scores, cash to recruits, a free house for mom and dad – the questionable actions appear to be deliberate attempts to, at the very least, work around well-known NCAA rules.And, again, this is Harvard. This is the Ivy League, of all places. These are supposed to be the standard bearers of what is right about college sports, not places trotting out the old, “Hey, everyone else is doing it” defense.

Since 1974 there hasn’t been a single NCAA infraction inside of the Ivy League. Sorry, Tommy, but you’re in the wrong conference for this kind of nonsense.

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