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Indiana Basketball – Consequences finally come for errant behavior; Devin Davis & Hanner Mosquera-Perea dismissed
by Kent Sterling
Devin Davis and Hanner Mosquera-Perea are gone from the Indiana Basketball team. Maybe the inmates are no longer running that asylum.
It’s about time.
Screws have been loose in Bloomington for a long time on Indiana University’s men’s basketball team, and finally – at long last – efforts were made yesterday to tighten them. Junior Devin Davis and senior Hanner Mosquera-Perea were dismissed from the team for an embarrassing aggregation of offenses. The final straw was the citation for possession of less than 30 grams of week that was issued to Davis on Monday while Mosquera-Perea was in the room.
Coach Tom Crean either grew the stones needed to assess meaningful consequences, or was handed them by athletic director Fred Glass. Regardless of the source of the hammer, it’s good that one finally was swung toward entitled and enabled players who have treated the privilege of playing basketball at Indiana with indifference for too long.
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Over the past 15 months, two Indiana basketball players have been arrested for using fake IDs as they tried to gain entry to Kilroy’s Sports on Little 500 weekend, two more were suspended for multiple positive drug tests, another was arrested for driving while intoxicated, yet another suffered a fractured skull as the result of jumping on an SUV being driven by different player, who was then arrested for driving after doing while being underage.
In a vacuum, all but the DUIs would be seen as nothing more than college hijynx gone awry, but combine them and add the responsibility basketball players accept when they sign on to represent the university as its most important marketing arm, and you have a serious problem.
With each incident, Crean appeared less and less capable of building a culture of respect or even obedience. Whatever the disincentive, the players’ behavior revealed them as ineffective and weak.
As at least half the roster continued to act like idiots, they revealed apathy toward Crean’s ineffective assessment of punitive countermeasures.
Things devolved so completely last Fall that the team was addressed by Glass, a man whose job responsibilities do not and should not include hands on management of student-athletes.
And now, finally, a message has been sent that Indiana Basketball isn’t a country club where the inmates run the asylum. A line is crossed, and the privilege of playing basketball at Indiana is removed. The players who don’t listen now are beyond help.
It would have been a lot easier for Crean had he run off an important player earlier to show that he’s capable of lowering the boom regardless of talent, but these expulsions can begin a new era of authority returning to the guy paid handsomely to run the program.
Not only will the wayward players still on the Indiana roster benefit from knowing that Crean and/or Glass are more than willing to impose their will because of a weak moment leading to a bad choice, the players who toe the line will respond positively as well.
There are few things more annoying to a kid who does all the right things than a guy who is never penalized for doing all the wrong things. Enthusiasm wanes, play suffers.
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Crean and Glass stepped up yesterday. In business terms, they made the tough decision to fire two employees who had shown repeated disrespect for Indiana University through their irresponsible and immature actions. Easy call.
Another great business lesson – when an employee problem is repeated again and again, it’s a department head problem. When the department head problem isn’t corrected, it’s a manager problem. The discipline issues at Indiana had become a department head problem, and was about to lodge itself on the manager’s head. Glass is way too smart to allow that to happen.
This recalibration of discipline was long overdue, but in time to keep the entire ship from sinking.
Maybe now, Indiana Basketball will be played by adults because the coach finally acted like one himself.
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Illinois Football under siege for abusing athletes – what the hell is wrong with Illinois athletics
by Kent Sterling
Illini AD Mike Thomas has a problem – or several problems – that may force him to make some changes.
Illinois serves as a wonderful counterpoint to Indiana in so many ways. For the last two days, I spent a considerable amount of time talking on the radio (3p-6p on CBS Sports 1430) about IU basketball player Devin Davis being cited for weed possession. Then I start reading about the University of Illinois Football program, and I feel so much better about IU.
That’s Illinois. Hoosiers feel like financial fools until they look at the books of the state to our west. Then we feel like geniuses. Some people in Illinois mock Indiana, but other than an overall lack of driving ability and girthy residents, the barbs about Indiana are vapid and ill-founded.
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The University of Illinois football team and its coach appear to be at odds over the treatment of players. According to players who are speaking up, coach Tim Beckman physically attacks players and forces them to play while injured.
There are similar accusations being made against the women’s basketball coach as well, so this issue isn’t limited to one rogue program. It may just be a department wide matter for which AD Mike Thomas is responsible..
It appears the students at Illinois are being treated less humanely than the hogs in Delaware County, Indiana, that will no longer be subjected to wrestling area teens at the county fair.
And now, the National College Players Association is jumping to the defense of those who are blowing whistles more loudly than Beckman during spring practice.
Ramogi Huma is the head of the NCPA, and he sent a letter Tuesday to University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise calling for the dismissal of all university officials who have abused players.
You remember Huma if you followed his efforts to help unionize Northwestern football players a couple of years ago.
The evidence to this point is purely here-say, and Huma prefaces his demand by saying that terminations should only take place as credible evidence is uncovered.
Huma’s request goes beyond termination for perpetrators –
- Terminate the employment of university officials directly involved in abusing players.
- Require university staff to be mandatory reporters of the suspected or verified abuse of any student – including those that play sports. Those reporting suspected or verified abuse must be protected from any retaliation.
- All students, including those that play sports, should have the ability to anonymously report suspected or verified abuse of a student to a university official that is held accountable for investigating such reports. The findings of all investigations must be reported to the Chancellor.
And then he requests a reply. Bold words for the leader of an ad hoc organization that serves as an unofficial representatives of athletes that may never have heard of the NCPA or Huma, but someone needs to speak on behalf of the athletes. Why not Huma?
The point is that Illinois is in trouble, and because the issues extend beyond football and Beckman. Illinois’ football program hasn’t been a source of great pride for the Land of Lincoln for a generation, but Beckman seems to have them moving in the right direction – at least from a wins and losses perspective.
Beckman’s Fighting Illini teams have won two, four, and six games over his seasons as coach, but winning is only part of the formula for success in college football. Gone are the days of the Junction Boys of Texas A&M when a punishing 10-day camp led to hospitalization of some and winning by others.
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Whipping a team into shape and bludgeoning them into compliance is correctly cause for dismissal in these slightly more enlightened times. Ignoring injury, and asking a player to do the same, is banned in the NFL. It isn’t allowed in the there, and it shouldn’t be tolerated in colleges where players are not paid at all.
The problem is that athletic directors like Thomas aren’t applauded or incentivized for serving as an ambassador for student-athletes – they hire successful coaches and back them up so they don’t look like morons for having hired them in the first place.
Maybe there’s a place at the table for a guy like Huma after all to represent unpaid athletes serving only at the pleasure of well-paid coaches. If not him, then who?
As for those of us in Indiana, there exists yet another reason to feel good about our state and its universities.
Indiana Basketball – Are misbehaving players trying to get Tom Crean fired?
by Kent Sterling
The answer to Tom Crean’s question, “What can I do to keep these kids from screwing up?’ is to try something else.
Tom Crean is employed by Indiana University to execute a number of tasks, but they each fit under the umbrella of the running most visible and powerful marketing initiative IU has available to attract attention and students.
Each player and coach of Indiana’s basketball team is a high profile representative of the university. They are not simply students and coaches; their portrayal of the culture of the university is the most important connect point for alumni, boosters, staff, and Indiana residents whose tax dollars support the school.
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When IU wins, the school shines in a very positive light. When it loses, well, it isn’t so positive, and people like my nephew (who loved IU in 2013 as the Hoosiers won the Big Ten) decides to attend Iowa instead.
But it isn’t all about winning and losing, especially when the losses start to pile up as they have over the past two seasons when Indiana has posted a mediocre-to-be-kind 16-22 record in conference play. it’s also about behavior.
Devin Davis being cited for possession of under 30 grams of marijuana Monday was the latest in a long line of college hijinks that have cast the Indiana program under Tom Crean as a runaway train of adolescent buffoonery that undermines the image Indiana University tries to project.
College students everywhere get stoned, drive drunk, and get popped for trying to use fake IDs to gain entry to a bar near campus. No amount of great parenting, warnings, and threats of dire consequences are going to keep a knucklehead from acting like a knucklehead. There will be mistakes. College is where many go to learn that idiocy has a cost.
In this case, it may just cost Tom Crean his job. If players want Crean gone, I’m not sure there is a better way than to continue to pulse petty arrests and citations for drug possession that make him appear weaker and weaker as a leader.
These aren’t ordinary students who play basketball at Indiana. Basketball players are the embodiment of all that is supposed to be good and decent about a school in need of some positive public relations, and when they screw up, people notice and pay attention.
For that reason, whoever is sitting in the basketball coach’s office in Cook Hall needs to assemble a team of 13 great kids who can play basketball at a championship level. That’s not an easy task. Just getting the athletes necessary to win is tough – add the behavioral component, and the talent pool diminishes.
And then the job is to teach the kids to play championship basketball as well as keep them in behavioral lanes that bring credit to the school. That’s not necessary at all schools, but at Indiana, a university with a flagging football program that is by and large meaningless as a touchpoint to alumni, boosters, students, and staff, it is a must.
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One of the reasons great basketball players attend Indiana is their desire to be a star – a guy 17,000+ cheer for in Assembly Hall as they follow in the footsteps of other great players like Schlundt, May, Buckner, Thomas, Alford, Cheaney, Jeffries, and Oladipo. Being a star comes with responsibilities that don’t exist for rank and file students. One of those is not to be an idiot.
The current Indiana Basketball roster is seemingly filled with idiots who are either being led toward moronic activities or not being adequately dissuaded from them.
Stanford Robinson decided to transfer, but not before an arrest and suspension. Troy Williams was suspended for a series of positive drug tests. Yogi Ferrell – arrested. Hanner Mosquiera-Perea arrested for a DUI on the day before a game. Emmis Holt arrested for driving after drinking which resulted in Devin Davis falling from the hood of an SUV and fracturing his skull. That’s in the last 15 months.
Tom Crean and all those who preceded him or will follow him aren’t just basketball coaches. They are managers of the most powerful marketing arm of a major university, and IU Basketball needs to perform on and off the court in a manner fitting the mission statement of the university.
Fair or not, the behavior of the players as university ambassadors is Crean’s responsibility every minute of every day they are on campus. For the past two years, many of the players he invited to Bloomington have not done him or IU proud. For that, he should be held accountable.
If the players want Crean fired, they are doing a hell of a good job of trying to get that done.
I learned from a boss I respected that a staff problem uncorrected is a manager problem. A manager problem uncorrected becomes his manager’s problem. I can’t believe this is going to become athletic director Fred Glass’s problem.
Deflategate – Brady’s cheating Nixonesque; Now he needs to do what Nixon didn’t, burn the evidence
by Kent Sterling
Richard Nixon cheated to win the 1972 election, and Tom Brady is fingered in the Wells Report as someone who cheated to gain an advantage on the gridiron. Both were unnecessary.
Nixon refused to turn over his audio tapes of meetings where crooked election tactics were planned and debriefed, but screwed up in being honorable enough to not burn them so the damning evidence of his complicity could never be established. The scandal ultimately doomed his presidency.
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Brady refused to turn over his smart phone so texts could be audited by Wells and his investigators. Whether he still has the phone carrying the remnants of texts that may prove his knowledge of the systemic measures taken to deflate game balls to make sure they were illegally soft is unknown.
If he hasn’t tossed his phone into the Charles River, he should have the software wiped clean before he does it. Then he should buy replacements for those with whom he shared texts directing or acknowledging the deflation of balls. The originals go into the river right behind his.
The missing smoking gun – unnecessary to establish culpability by the NFL – is all that stands between Brady becoming the NFL’s equivalent of Nixon.
Brady’s suspension is set at four games, and his legacy is more Clintonian than Nixonian right now because of the naive assumption that altering the balls had nothing to do with the overwhelming success achieved by Brady and his team over the past eight seasons since teams began providing their own offensive game balls.
Patriots Owner Robert Kraft will write a $1,000,000 check to the league, and the team will lose a first round pick in 2016 and a fourth rounder in 2017 to square their account with Roger Goodell and the NFL. That’s tip money to Kraft, and the draft pick loss will be overcome by the value picks the Patriots are so good at unearthing.
The shame of this whole sordid affair is that – like Nixon – it all seems so unnecessary. Bill Belichick, while someone who has repeatedly bent, distorted, and broken rules to gain an advantage in the past, has built a win generating machine that required none of the advantages for which it has been found guilty.
Brady is one of the most effective quarterbacks in NFL history, and the Charmin-soft squeezability of the ball has had little to do with his excellence.
Patriots fans and New England media have lost their minds in much the same way republicans defended Nixon in the 1970s. “It’s unfair!” (no, Josh Gordon being suspended for one year is unfair). “The cheating didn’t change the result of the AFC Championship!” (true, but what about the week before?). “There’s no concrete proof!” (true, but the circumstantial evidence is daunting).
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The transitive property is being wielded and perverted with unreasonable regularity regarding the initial suspension of Ray Rice. “Rice is suspended for two games for knocking his fiancee unconscious, but Brady is suspended for four games because he may have overseen a program that resulted in slightly deflated balls? RIDICULOUS!” is a compilation of two tweets to me from hysterical Patriots fans.
That Rice has not played a down or drawn a game check since hitting the woman to whom he is now married seems lost in the backwash of the convenient illogic of their whines.
Brady was found responsible for Deflategate by the NFL, and four weeks will be over in the blink of an eye. I only hope Brady and the Patriots show more class in accepting the consequence exacted by the NFL than they have shown in bitching and moaning about their persecution.
My guess is they will attack they NFL’s punishment with the same zeal as they pursue victories, and for the same reason – to gain an advantage on the field – regardless of what it takes. The ends justify the means for the Patriots just as they did for Nixon, and winning is the only end that matters to that rogue franchise or that failed presidency.
Deflategate – Patriots QB Tom Brady deserves to sit entire 2015 season for cheating
by Kent Sterling
Tom Brady is pretty, a champion, and one of the best quarterbacks of all-time. He is also a cheater, and should be treated like one.
The NFL has no problem suspending players for extended periods because they get stoned, but a cheater is now expected to earn only a two-to-four game suspension for violating a rule that resulted in his team gaining a significant competitive advantage. Yeah, that makes sense.
Mirroring our criminal justice system, addicts are punished beyond logic for their inability to combat the compulsion to harm themselves with both illegal and legal drugs. Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon sat 10 games in 2014, and will sit the entire 2015 season because he has routinely tested positive for recreational intoxicants that provide no competitive advantage whatsoever.
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Brady’s cheating is like the crimes being committed in the American banking industry. Middle class financial security is sacrificed for the mind-boggling wealth of amoral cash fiends who buy loopholes through giant donations to the PACs of political candidates. Crack addicts go to jail for years, while bankers stockpile hundreds of millions of dollars.
The NFL has no problem negotiating a collective bargaining agreement that allows players to be expelled from the league for testing at an absurdly low level for pot, but changing the competitive balance of the game is worthy of a two-to-four game rip?
It’s very likely that for years Brady has been complicit in a systemic alteration of game balls to be used by the Patriots offense. The result hasn’t simply been to make it easier for him to throw the ball, but for the Patriots ball carriers to hold on to it.
Since 2010, according to Warren Sharp’s post on fumble likelihood, the Patriots have averaged one fumble for every 185 offensive plays. The NFL average is 105 plays/fumble. During the same period (2010-2014), the second best team in the NFL at securing the ball is Houston with 140 plays/fumble.
This table shows how the Patriots under Bill Belichick gained great improvement in 2007 after teams were allowed by the NFL to provide their own offensive balls. (reprinted from www.sharpfootballanalysis.com)
The odds of operating at this level of fumble frequency through happenstance, according to Sharp’s post is once in over 16,000 seasons.
If you look at that chart and still think this was a harmless advantage gained by a team whose quarterback wanted a slightly softer ball so he could spin it a little better, you simply aren’t paying attention.
You might be thinking that the Patriots front office is a savvy group of football guys, and that maybe they have developed a system to acquire and employ players who are less likely to fumble. There is no occurrence more disruptive to a team’s ability to win than turnovers, so drafting and signing players with sticky fingers would provide a huge statistical advantage.
Sharp debunks that likelihood in another exhaustively researched post that shows the Patriots are 88% more likely to fumble after playing for the Patriots than during their time in New England.
Deflategate is a simple case of a cheater – or organization of cheaters – working outside the rules to improve their odds of winning in a way that is downright Nixonian. The use of the suffix “gate” has exploded to an exhausting level, but in this case, it’s absolutely appropriate because of its similarity to Watergate (the first “gate”).
A team good enough to win without cheating (Nixon would have been re-elected in 1972 regardless of dirty tricks, plumbers, cover-ups, Haldeman, Ehrichman, Mitchell, and Dean) defies the rules in a way that is scientifically provable and beyond question. They get caught, and the party in question denies everything despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
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The New Orleans Saints lost an entire season and the franchise’s arc was forever altered because of Bountygate. Players who go one toke over the line are banished for four games and then an entire year as punishment levels escalate. What is a just debit for a quarterback like Brady who directed locker room attendants to provide his team such a profound advantage?
If not a year, then it should be more. Talk of a two-to-four game rip denies the seriousness of the crime and the damage done to the NFL shield.
The message to be taken by young men and women from professional sports should be that hard work yields a positive result. The message the NFL will send a generation of kids if they give Brady and the Patriots a pass for Deflategate is that white collar crime is just fine.
Forcing Brady to sit for a full season would send a message to NFL players, employees and fans impressionable enough to learn from the mistakes of their fallen heroes.
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Deflategate – Tom Brady’s agent may as well have admitted his client’s guilt
by Kent Sterling
Pat’s QB Tom Brady is acting like a very smart and very guilty man. His agent didn’t help perpetuate that myth yesterday.
Attorneys are like magicians – everyone knows they are tricking us with sleight of speech and misdirection, but the good ones keep us guessing in wonderment.
Don Yee is Tom Brady’s agent, and yesterday he pulled back the curtain as he clumsily tried to pull a rabbit out of his transparent hat in casting the Indianapolis Colts and the NFL as the true villains in Deflategate.
For those who believe Brady’s ludicrous claims that he had no inkling that locker room attendants acted on their own accord when (if) they deflated game approved footballs to beneath the prescribed level of air pressure, Yee’s outrage was cheered. For those who assess logic before investing belief, they quickly saw through Yee’s awkward and emotional blather.
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Yes wrote, “The Wells report, with all due respect, is a significant and terrible disappointment. It’s omission of key facts and lines of inquiry suggest the investigators reached a conclusion first, and then determined so-called facts later. One item alone taints this entire report. What does it say about the league office’s protocols and ethics when it allows one team to tip it off to an issue prior to a championship game, and no league officials or game officials notified the Patriots of the same issue prior to the game? This suggests it may be more probable than not that the league cooperated with the Colts in perpetrating a sting operation.
“The Wells report buries this issue in a footnote on page 46 without any further elaboration. The league is a significant client of the investigators’ law firm; it appears to be a rich source of billings and media exposure based on content in the law firm’s website. This was not an independent investigation and the contents of the report bear that out – all one has to do is read closely and critically, as opposed to simply reading headlines.
“The investigators’ assumptions and inferences are easily debunked or subject to multiple interpretations. Much of the report’s vulnerabilities are buried in the footnotes, which is a common legal writing tactic. It is a sad day for the league as it has abdicated the resolution of football-specific issues to people who don’t understand the context or culture of the sport.
“I was physically present for my client’s interview. I have verbatim notes of the interview. Tom made himself available for nearly an entire day and patiently answered every question. It was clear to me the investigators had limited understanding of professional football. For reasons unknown, the Wells report omitted nearly all of Tom’s testimony, most of which was critical because it would have provided this report with the context that it lacks. Mr. Wells promised back in January to share the results of this investigation publicly, so why not follow through and make public all of the information gathered and let the public draw its own conclusions?
“This report contains significant and tragic flaws, and it is common knowledge in the legal industry that reports like this generally are written for the benefit of the purchaser.”
Lots of garbled legalese and obfuscation, and no meaningful substance, and Yee’s defense of Brady not turning over his phone so texts could be recovered on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 featured more of the same.
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To assert the Colts and NFL perpetrated a “sting operation” shows a severe aversion to the truth or exactly the kind of ignorance that Yee accuses the Wells team of investigators of displaying.
Opposing teams sit down with game officials prior to every game to discuss issues from unique formations they might feature to opponent tactics that may skirt the rules. The results of these discussions are never shared with the opposition.
After being so strident in dismissing the charges against him, Brady can hardly backtrack now, but Yee would have been better served by saying nothing rather than engaging in such a patently obvious effort to play a shell game with a hopefully not-so-easily duped media and fans.
Deflategate – Patriots guilty, but should be punished by Colts – not NFL
by Kent Sterling
Bill Belichick is not named as a guilty party in the Wells Report, but given his past, does anyone believe he didn’t know balls were being deflated?
Don’t get me wrong. I hate the New England Patriots – a miserable organization that values winning over all else, and that’s why the NFL is constantly uncovering rule violations used by Kraft/Belichick/Brady to gain an unfair advantage.
To very loosely paraphrase Dean Vernon Wormer in Animal House, “Believing that victory thru skullduggery equals valor is no way to go through life.”
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The Wells investigation into Deflategate was conducted over more than 100 days and is chronicled in a more than 200-page report. It’s findings are that the Patriots more likely than not caused the under inflation of game approved balls used by quarterback Tom Brady and the New England Patriots offense, and that Brady was likely generally aware of the deflation.
Consequences for breaking the rule that requires game balls to be inflated to between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch of pressure are to be announced in the coming days and may include fines, suspensions, and forfeiture of draft picks.
My preference would be for the Patriots to be given the very lightest punishment available by the NFL and the most massive possible by the Indianapolis Colts in the regular season game on Sunday Night Football October 18th followed by another ass-kicking in the playoffs.
The only meaningful disincentive for an organization that believes winning trumps all is a humiliating defeat administered by one of the teams they cheated against (does anyone believe this systemic and purposeful deflation of footballs was an isolated incident?).
Fines mean nothing to a guy with billions. A two-million fine levied by commissioner Roger Goodell’s office would be a speeding ticket for Patriots owner Robert Kraft. The loss of a draft choice? The Patriots would figure out how to maximize whatever picks remained. And the Patriots would consider it money and assets well spent in order to win another Lombardi Trophy.
Colts 55 – Patriot 3 would be a just result, but unfortunately the NFL can’t rig games to ensure the misery of coach Bill Belichick and his mercenaries. Only the Colts can rise up to smite the evil-doers in a measure that would ruin a season or series of seasons for the Patriots.
Belichick is a current day version of Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. remember in The Wrath of Khan how the story of Kirk beating the no-win scenario of the Kobayashi Maru was told with such relish? Kirk reprogrammed the computer simulator so there actually was a way to win. Star Fleet loved Kirk’s indifference to the rules in the same way Patriots fans love Belichick.
The NFL is without the muscle and will to bring a consequence severe enough to correct the Patriots zeal for sullied victory, but maybe the Colts can issue its own mandate for fair play every time they face these renegades.
That would be justice – the kind that would likely not correct the scofflaws, but force them to become even more brazen in bending, breaking, and masticating rules in order to gain the kind of small advantage deflating balls represents.
And before we dismiss the deflation of balls as some harmless fraternity prank, take a look at Warren Sharp’s analysis of what happened to the Patriots fumble rate after teams began maintaining and preparing their own balls for use on offense.
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That level of turnover prevention is striking and shows that Deflategate may have given the Patriots a much more profound advantage than the NFL might believe.
The only worthy punishment for a renegade operation like the Patriots is losing, and the Colts may be the only team in the AFC capable of meting it out.
