<p>What a disgrace!</p>
<p>I’ll probably go to Binghamton and I don’t care all. Even about the grading policies. It’s not like they are pushing the teachers for A’s, they just want these kids to pass. It’s not like they are competing for top class ranks. This is D1 sports, winning is important.</p>
<p>I dont think the school should be spending money on this. Not every SUNY needs to be D1.</p>
<p>I do find it disturbing how they blew away $33 million on a stadium/whatever. Given it is a SUNY school, they really shouldn’t invest such a massive amount of money into something like that.</p>
<p>I think there theory is that it raises prestige of school. Sad. There should be a SUNY for everyone – and Buffalo, which used to be a private uni, does have stadium, big tiem sports – but not every school has to have everything.</p>
<p>I think Binghamton is large enough to warrant being D1 though.</p>
<p>A D1 team would bring a greater reputation to the school for sure, and give it the recognition it deserves! I’m all for it</p>
<p>To the people saying its a SUNY school so they shouldnt invest money has no clue what they are talking about. Just cause New York Uses the name suny instead of NYState or something along those lines doesnt make it ANY DIFFERENT than public universities throughout the U.S. IE Penn State, ohio state, Michican State… ect ect. you don’t see people complaining about these PUBLIC STATE universities getting money for athletics so why should we be hearing it. In fact if the Economy wasnt they way it is now i would be hoping talks for a football team were in the mix. I hate ignorant people who just because they don’t like sports dont think the school should change. And that article is very biased.</p>
<p>This hasn’t gone away.</p>
<p>[Binghamton</a> Cleans House - Binghamton - Deadspin](<a href=“Deadspin | Binghamton Cleans House”>Deadspin | Binghamton Cleans House)</p>
<p>[Binghamton</a> University - Athletics: Basketball Updates](<a href=“http://www2.binghamton.edu/athletics/basketball-updates.html#oct8-defleur]Binghamton”>http://www2.binghamton.edu/athletics/basketball-updates.html#oct8-defleur)</p>
<p>The school will have a hard time repairing their image. This was once a great school (Harpur) but with the recent State budget cuts and all the basketball team crap they are headed for the sewer. No further alumni donation until things are cleaned up.</p>
<p>Coach Kevin Broadus is on a paid leave of absence and making in excess of $1,00,0000 annually. I’m not sure, but I think he recently signed a three year contract! What a disaster, and its too bad for the student body.</p>
<p>Considering that Hall of Fame Coach Jim Boeheim’s salary at Syracuse for the last year in which it was reported (2008) was $986,000 I find it hard to believe that Kevin Broaddus made more than one million at SUNY Binghamton. No doubt he is grossly overpaid, but your figure seems a stretch. I remember reading within the past year that the highest paid SUNY employee is the gentleman who runs the nanotech center at SUNY Albany. His salary was somewhere in the range of $900,000 if I recall correctly.</p>
<p>Regardless, the Binghamton basketball program has indeed been a disaster and certainly not a net positive for the student body and alumni.</p>
<p>I got the information from this source…I was wrong…the article says they owe him over 1 million dollars. Thanks for the heads up!</p>
<p>[Binghamton</a> Suspends Basketball Coaches From Recruiting Trips - The Quad Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Binghamton Suspends Basketball Coaches From Recruiting Trips - The New York Times”>Binghamton Suspends Basketball Coaches From Recruiting Trips - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Here is the text from the NYT Sport Blog:</p>
<p>October 11, 2009, 12:39 am</p>
<p>Binghamton Suspends Basketball Coaches From Recruiting Trips
By Pete Thamel
Binghamton announced Saturday that it was suspending its basketball coaches from all off-campus recruiting. </p>
<p>The university self-reported a secondary violation to the N.C.A.A. on Friday in which Coach Kevin Broadus and assistant Coach Marc Hsu spoke to recruits at a prep school during a time when contact with recruits is banned. Broadus cannot recruit off-campus until November and all trips will need to be approved by the university’s compliance office. </p>
<p>The move comes at a tenuous time for recruiting, as the program has only seven eligible scholarship players and its leading returning scorer averaged less than 5 points. The university recently extended Broadus’s contract through 2014 and owes him about $1 million, a significant amount for an athletic department with an annual budget of $10.4 million.</p>
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<p>I am pretty sure Broadus got a contract extension through 2014 worth a little over $1mm so he’s getting around $210k a year. Not a bad salary to run a program into the ground.</p>
<p>[BU’s</a> Broadus gets 2-year contract extension | Sports & Recreation > Sports, Games & Outdoor Recreation from AllBusiness.com](<a href=“http://www.allbusiness.com/education-training/extra-curricular-activities/12505554-1.html]BU’s”>http://www.allbusiness.com/education-training/extra-curricular-activities/12505554-1.html)</p>
<p>Edit: This turned out to be considerably longer than I expected it to be, but I guess I had a lot to say. This is a basic overview of what is happening right now at Binghamton, from the viewpoint of a current student. It also has a few comments and a few of my opinions sprinkled throughout. Hopefully this gives people who haven’t been following Binghamton University news, especially prospective students, a local view on the situation.</p>
<p>It is such bad timing for all this to happen too. We just made the tournament for the first time last year (and got torn apart by the NYTimes then too; one specific contributor has written 6 out of his last 8 articles about Binghamton’s basketball team, highlighting how unethical our recruiting policies are/how disgraceful we are to the SUNY system/<insert other=“” negative=“” statements=“” here=“”>. Seems like the guy just possibly maybe <em>might</em> have an agenda or biased opinion. Maybe someone got denied from Bing some years back?) and it was finally looking like all the money that was poured into our athletic department – and specifically our basketball program – was finally doing something.</insert></p>
<p>We may have lost the first match (lol @ us having to face Duke for our first game…yeah we had a good chance at winning that) and again we caught a lot of flak from NYT, but at least we were making visible progress. Seeing our team on ESPN that day as a student was awesome, and something I did not expect to happen while at Binghamton. I didn’t come here for their great sports team, but to see it slowly start to become competitive while I am here anyway was pretty amazing. I’d love to see the Bearcats be right up there with the Tarheels, the Orange, the Blue Devils etc. </p>
<p>But right as we get to this point (after JUST recovering from the awful Brian Steinhaur incident, which not only directly involved our basketball players but managed to bring international attention to our school), right after our first time playing with the big teams, **** like this happens. One player is arrested for crack cocaine possession (maybe intent to sell too? I’m not sure offhand). Then, for no explainable reason (except for a lousy statement about “commitment issues” from Broadus), five more players on the team are let go. And most of these guys were our star players – our starting lineup, our first string – these 6 guys scored over 90% of our points last year. And to top it off, then comes the whistle-blower professor (I’m not condemning her for this – she did the right thing. Our athletic department and those who oversee them are the ones who are in the wrong) saying that she was expected to eliminate her attendance policy for the basketball team, thereby increasing their grades. Binghamton responded to this by firing her due to “budget cuts”, since she was only an adjunct professor. Then a week or so later she was offered her job back (smooth move Bing, nobody sees your ulterior motives there). Of course she refused.</p>
<p>This then led to our audit by the NCAA…which found out in just a single day that Broadus had violated recruitment policy (although the University self-reported it later). In fact, two weeks ago there was an article in the school paper (Pipe Dream) that our school was having open tryouts for all students to join the basketball team – the same one that was so great last year – but this was scrapped once they found out we were being audited (those open tryouts would have been another violation – instead they turned it into an “informational meeting”).</p>
<p>Now Kevin Broadus (the head coach for those who don’t know) is placed on a paid leave of absence as of this Wednesday. Also on Wednesday Joel Thirer, our athletic director, announced that he was resigning (I have a feeling that it has something to do with the crazy ****storm going on that we call our athletic department). Oh, forgot to mention – about six months ago a major gifts officer (in the athletics department, of course) filed a formal harassment complaint due to “egregious acts of sexual misconduct” by two senior athletic department officials.</p>
<p>To close up, we went from the top of the roller coaster straight to the bottom, through the ground, into hell, in just about eight months. We were seeing our new and improved basketball team slowly raise our national prestige, with the possibility of greatly improving it over the next 10 years or so; now we see our basketball team (and basically the entire athletic department in general) bring us down, way down, farther than we were before.</p>
<pre><code> I also like to close with: this has no effect on the actual academics of the school. Yes, it will affect how people perceive Binghamton – but it does not affect the education that you will obtain in the classroom. Every single professor I’ve had so far has been incredibly intelligent, a good-lecturer, and just overall a great teacher (some I liked more than others of course, but in the grand scheme of things I’ve yet to have a professor that I’ve absolutely hated – hope it stays this way!) So despite all the negative press we are getting, don’t let it sway your decision too much. If you want to go to a school with a big sports tradition, especially if you want one that isn’t dysfunctional, Binghamton probably isn’t the school for you. But if you want a great education, a relatively large school that still retains the small school feel, and an incredibly (comparatively speaking) cheap education, Bing is the place to go.
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<p>According to the NYT, Sally Dear was offered her job back, but the next semester doesn’t show any courses offered by her…so she believes she doesn’t have a job!</p>
<p>This administration just keeps screwing it up.</p>
<p>I think the article is correct when it states:</p>
<p>“Students, sounding a bit wiser than their leaders, generally said they still supported Division 1 athletics, but only if done with an awareness of the costs of doing it wrong.”</p>
<p>Thisisnew…excellent post!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/nyregion/22towns.html?scp=2&sq=binghamton%20university&st=cse[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/nyregion/22towns.html?scp=2&sq=binghamton%20university&st=cse</a></p>
<p>I had a conversation while visiting the campus with an employee. Let’s just say, to protect this employees anonymity, that they were in a position to know. This employee claimed that a student was a recruiter for the Bloods gang. In fact, I think this employee said that the student was the main recruiter or head recruiter. This employee claimed that organized gangs were sending their smarter members to college so they can learn how to manage the gangs money. There was also talk of another very wanted person living on campus with his GF until he was picked up.</p>
<p>Maybe I would take all this with a grain of salt, but there was also a post on students review dot com that mentioned many of the athletes having public criminal records. I was just looking for that post on that website, but couldn’t find it. I don’t know if it was taken down, or if there are just so many posts I can’t look through them all now. </p>
<p>I would look at the reviews on students review dot com. Obviously, a lot of people that post are unhappy. This is especially true with any large SUNY (Bing, SB, Albany).</p>
<p>Report Faults Binghamton’s Leaders in Basketball Scandal </p>
<p>[Report</a> Faults Binghamton’s Leaders in Basketball Scandal - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/sports/ncaabasketball/12binghamton.html?pagewanted=1&hp]Report”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/sports/ncaabasketball/12binghamton.html?pagewanted=1&hp)</p>
<p>From the article:</p>
<p>Among the many findings:</p>
<p>¶Coach Kevin Broadus successfully lobbied for a player’s grade to be changed. </p>
<p>¶Independent study classes were created exclusively for basketball players.</p>
<p>¶An assistant coach and a player openly discussed cash payments and academic cheating.</p>
<p>¶Coaches tried to keep arrests of players quiet, and gave players advice on what to tell the police while being questioned.</p>
<p>The report places much of the blame for Binghamton’s problems on a lack of oversight by DeFleur and Thirer, saying they failed to have “sufficient objectivity” and “self inquiry” as problems arose in the program.</p>
<p>An email went out to alumni yesterday with a statement from the President that didn’t really say much of anything. I was a cheerleader for the basketball team back in the 80’s and I just don’t recall things like this happening when we were Div III. :(</p>
<p>Or maybe my older brain is just more forgetful???</p>
<p>What a disgrace is right!!!</p>
<p>Have you read Judge Kay’s report? It is quite telling.
[The</a> State University of New York - SUNY News](<a href=“http://www.suny.edu/sunynews/News.cfm?filname=2010-02-11%20Review%20and%20Investigation%20Statement%20Final.htm]The”>http://www.suny.edu/sunynews/News.cfm?filname=2010-02-11%20Review%20and%20Investigation%20Statement%20Final.htm)</p>
<p>Scandals like this as well as the fact that not one NYer so far has been accepted to Binghamton makes me really question how this school is being managed. </p>
<p>Thankfully, my daughter applied to Geneseo as well as a few privates. I am not sure I even want her to attend this school.</p>