Well, the media guide, anyway. You have to read this insane bullshit to believe it. If I hadn’t already sworn I’d never give another damned penny to CU (for several reasons), this would be the last straw.

Today I attended the installation of the new president of St. Bonaventure University, Sister Margaret Carney. While CU’s athletic administration (and the university administration that works for it) continue to pretend that nothing’s wrong, nothing happened, those eight or nine women who claim they were raped are making it all up, and hey, if Katie Hnida was harassed and intimidated she deserved it because she’s not even a good kicker, this university community is dealing with the aftermath of its own much-publicized national sports-related debacle, and it’s doing so in ways that mark it out as the anti-CU. At the end of the 2002-3 season the men’s hoops program erupted in an eligibility scandal that left everybody from the university’s basketball coaches to the AD to its president looking for work. Worse, the chair of the board of trustees committed suicide.

Has St. Bonaventure played accountability whack-a-mole like CU has? Have they blamestormed and scapegoated and stonewalled like a pack of CEOs caught raiding the pension fund? No. No, in today’s ceremonies there were maybe three direct references to the scandal, which it’s clear hurt the university community personally. They took it as an ethical and moral failing, a stain on the record of integrity they cherish so much. It would have been so easy to point fingers at the guilty (I mean, we know who they are and they have been duly punished).

But that’s not how it went down. The events were framed in terms of our failures, and it was clear that we will be accountable for restoring our damaged reputations. Accountability, 100%, admitting the crime and promising to fix the culture that spawned it. If Rick Reilly were a Bonas alum and were butchering the school the way he has Buff Nation, he wouldn’t be declared persona non grata, he’d be invited to lecture. (And Rick, if you get this, call me – I’d love to see if we can’t get you up here to talk about ethics in intercollegaite athletics.)

By car, it’s a bit over 1700 miles from Allegany, NY to Boulder, CO. In principle, they might as well be on different planets.