Steve Logan, former ECU head football coach and now offensive coordinator at Boston College had a local radio show on 620 “The Bull” here in the Raleigh/Durham area. “The Logan Zone” was, of course, about football. I enjoyed the show immensely and enjoyed the insights that a former head football coach had. As fans we love to opine, even when ignorant to what really happens in a football program. His insights were refreshing.

During the show he also cracked a few jokes. I found on my iPod an old episode of his from November. In the episode, he talks about an old joke supposedly shared among D1 football coaches about their views on the NCAA. To set this joke up, he was discussing how the NCAA was inconsistently cracking down on Native American mascots it found inappropriate; namely how Florida State and the Seminoles did not get the NCAA’s wrath while others like North Dakota’s Fight Sioux did get in trouble. The joke I found hysterical five months ago, and found it just as funny today. I’m not sure how many people will get it, but it is a must share:

When Notre Dame cheats, and gets caught, it makes the NCAA soooo angry, they put Cleveland State on probation for four years.

–Steve Logan, The Logan Zone

11/16/2006

NCAA president Myles Brand has been cracking down on “diploma mills”, that is high schools or other schools who give students a high school degree that’s worth less than the paper it’s printed on. There were some obvious target, like “virtual” high schools, but the NCAA delivered a zinger today when it put Oak Hill Academy (yes THE Oak Hill Academy) on its list of high schools where it will no longer, after Fall 2006, recognize their students as being NCAA eligible.

This is the Oak Hill Academy that is in the top of the nation of producing basketball stars. Jerry Stackhouse, Carmelo Anthony, Jeff McInnis, Steve Blake and UNC’s new star Tywon Lawson.

“Its embarrassing to be on the list with some of those schools…Twenty-two schools in the whole country, and we’re one of them. To me, it makes the NCAA look like it’s not credible.” — Oak Hill Academy head coach Steve Smith

I have every reason to believe Oak Hill will clear this up, but if they don’t, it will virtually end their prominence as a basketball powerhouse. Afterall, who would want to go to Oak Hill if they had no hope of going to a NCAA powerhouse like UNC or Duke?
You can read more at the NY Times.