Chris Webber deserves apology from Michigan, NCAA for disassociation treatment

Apparently no one in the NCAA, no one at Michigan saw it for what it also could’ve been: an old manipulative hustler sweeping up naïve kids before they even knew what hit them.

The NCAA and Michigan apparently never bothered to even consider that these guys were victims. They thought the players could just breezily walk away from a guy of that influence anytime they chose. Could they have done that? Could they have handled things better? Of course. To assume this was simple and easy, however, is wrong.

Yet when things didn’t go as the NCAA rulebook demanded, well, the system couldn’t just punish the program with vacated seasons and other sanctions. No, it had to go further, it had to determine the players themselves deserved a special decade of shame courtesy of a scarlet letter of “disassociation.”

Yeah, all these years later, someone sure does owe a phone call and an apology.

Article Appeared @http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaab–ncaa–michigan-should-be-apologizing-to-chris-webber-for–scarlet-letter–treatment-210316392.html

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