If you're someone interested in the sanctity of college basketball, this was not your offseason. Let me count the ways: Tim Floyd, O.J Mayo, Renardo Sidney, John Calipari, Derrick Rose, Southeast Missouri ... the list goes on. Frankly, it's been a bad few months for those who still hold the at-this-point-almost-endearingly-quaint notion that college basketball is a game played by amateur student-athletes and not paid professionals in training. And the offseason isn't even over yet.

Which is why, if you're someone interested in the sanctity of college basketball (notice how I'm not really including myself here), you should be rooting for John Beilein. In addition to his duties at Michigan, a few months ago Beilein accepted the chair of the NCAA's newly formed ethics committee.

While I'm still sort of unsure what, exactly, this ethics committee will do about cheating in college hoops -- I'm reminded of Hans Blix in "Team America: World Police" ("If you don't show us the WMDs, we will be very angry, and we will send you a strongly worded letter") -- it's good to hear Beilein's at the very least in touch with what the major problems are.

Just kidding. He sort of seems not to know:

"That is really the biggest challenge right now,” Beilein said. “Is to get a clear agenda of what are important issues. But you will be focusing on one issue and something real and very important can come up that nobody ever thought of before. I don’t think there’s a science to this thing. We just have to chop away at being persistent in trying to identify the biggest problems.”

Like I said, I'm rooting for John Beilein. But honestly, the "biggest challenge right now" is not identifying the important issues. The important issues are pretty blatant. We don't even have to name all of them, but a few would include: academic fraud; the flow of money into the hands of agents and handlers and talent "scouts"; the influence of shoe companies from major college programs. Just off the top of my head.

No, the biggest challenge right now is how to actually stop all of these things. Beilein deserves the benefit of the doubt here. It's still early in his tenure, not to mention in the life of the committee. But so far, not so good.

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