{"id":17880,"date":"2010-02-12T17:19:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/report_faults_binghamtons_leaders_in_basketball_scandal\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T17:19:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:19:59","slug":"report_faults_binghamtons_leaders_in_basketball_scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17880","title":{"rendered":"Report Faults Binghamton\u2019s Leaders in Basketball Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many findings:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b6Coach Kevin Broadus successfully lobbied for a player\u2019s grade to be changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b6Independent study classes were created exclusively for basketball players.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b6An assistant coach and a player openly discussed cash payments and academic cheating.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b6Coaches tried to keep arrests of players quiet, and gave players advice on what to tell the police while being questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Binghamton is not alone in encountering problems with men\u2019s basketball, as the report noted; <b>if anything, its troubles reflect the struggles that many universities face in balancing academics and athletics.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/12\/sports\/ncaabasketball\/12binghamton.html\">Read the whole thing (my emphasis)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many findings: \u00c2\u00b6Coach Kevin Broadus successfully lobbied for a player\u2019s grade to be changed. \u00c2\u00b6Independent study classes were created exclusively for basketball players. \u00c2\u00b6An assistant coach and a player openly discussed cash payments and academic cheating. \u00c2\u00b6Coaches tried<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17880\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,111,168,128,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-sports","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}