AURex
06-03-2010, 02:35 PM
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Let me be right up front with my opinion about this entire issue.
The NCAA will make public its ruling tomorrow. But the big football schools are not afraid of the NCAA.
SC will put on a sad face, issue multiple indignities in press conferences, trot out some lawyers for the media, send apologies to their fans, etc.
But they don't really care and shouldn't.
The NCAA has become a bunch of pu$$ies.
What could the NCAA do?
Vacate some wins So what? Those games/seasons are past. The school has already raked in the tens of millions of dollars from those games. And that's what it's all about -- the money.
Reduce the number of scholarships So what? A school like Southern Cal, Notre Dame, Alabama will always get their share of 4* and 5* players. So they sign a few fewer 3* players. Not a problem.
Probation Uh, like, what is probation anyway? And if you have a second violation while on probation, what? You're on double probation? And you have another violation, and what? Well, gee, we'll just give you some more probation. It's not like probation means anything.
Reduce TV appearances or bowl appearances NCAA knows where the money comes from. If Southern Cal or Alabama or Michigan loses TV appearances, TV networks reduce payouts, conferences lose money. The entire conference gets penalized for the transgressions of one renegade program.
Death penalty BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Will never happen again to a major football school. The nuclear weapon will never be dropped on American soil again. The horrific results of the first and only death penalty assured that it will not be used again.
So, the NCAA can't really do anything to hurt Southern Cal, just as the continuing string of probations has done nothing to hurt Alabama. (Please don't give me the "we lost games for years because of probation." Didn't happen. Bama lost games because of crappy coaches. Bama has a real coach now and the fact that they are on still probation means zero, nada, zilch. Last season was the proof that probation means no more now than it did back when Auburn won their championship while on probation.)
So, does anyone really think NCAA can do anything to Southern Cal that would be an actual deterrent against future violations? The alumni and fans will continue giving money and buying seats, the TV networks will continue showing the games and the bowls will continue inviting them to play for the big payouts. They don't care if the team is on "triple bad probation" as long as the team is winning. They'll only even think about or mention probation if the team starts losing, and then they will just be using it as an excuse, and blaming NCAA.
Fact is, it seems to me, the only real power the NCAA has to enforce its rules is the threat of taking teams off television and out of bowls. The NCAA of old used to do that.
We will find out tomorrow whether the NCAA is ready to bare its claws and tear Southern Cal a new one, or whether it will continue as a pu$$y. If all they do is vacate some past games in a history book, give SC a few years probation, and loss of a few scholarships, like they have with FSU and Alabama, it will be a message to the rest of the nation's football teams that they can run amok with violations with impunity.
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Let me be right up front with my opinion about this entire issue.
The NCAA will make public its ruling tomorrow. But the big football schools are not afraid of the NCAA.
SC will put on a sad face, issue multiple indignities in press conferences, trot out some lawyers for the media, send apologies to their fans, etc.
But they don't really care and shouldn't.
The NCAA has become a bunch of pu$$ies.
What could the NCAA do?
Vacate some wins So what? Those games/seasons are past. The school has already raked in the tens of millions of dollars from those games. And that's what it's all about -- the money.
Reduce the number of scholarships So what? A school like Southern Cal, Notre Dame, Alabama will always get their share of 4* and 5* players. So they sign a few fewer 3* players. Not a problem.
Probation Uh, like, what is probation anyway? And if you have a second violation while on probation, what? You're on double probation? And you have another violation, and what? Well, gee, we'll just give you some more probation. It's not like probation means anything.
Reduce TV appearances or bowl appearances NCAA knows where the money comes from. If Southern Cal or Alabama or Michigan loses TV appearances, TV networks reduce payouts, conferences lose money. The entire conference gets penalized for the transgressions of one renegade program.
Death penalty BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Will never happen again to a major football school. The nuclear weapon will never be dropped on American soil again. The horrific results of the first and only death penalty assured that it will not be used again.
So, the NCAA can't really do anything to hurt Southern Cal, just as the continuing string of probations has done nothing to hurt Alabama. (Please don't give me the "we lost games for years because of probation." Didn't happen. Bama lost games because of crappy coaches. Bama has a real coach now and the fact that they are on still probation means zero, nada, zilch. Last season was the proof that probation means no more now than it did back when Auburn won their championship while on probation.)
So, does anyone really think NCAA can do anything to Southern Cal that would be an actual deterrent against future violations? The alumni and fans will continue giving money and buying seats, the TV networks will continue showing the games and the bowls will continue inviting them to play for the big payouts. They don't care if the team is on "triple bad probation" as long as the team is winning. They'll only even think about or mention probation if the team starts losing, and then they will just be using it as an excuse, and blaming NCAA.
Fact is, it seems to me, the only real power the NCAA has to enforce its rules is the threat of taking teams off television and out of bowls. The NCAA of old used to do that.
We will find out tomorrow whether the NCAA is ready to bare its claws and tear Southern Cal a new one, or whether it will continue as a pu$$y. If all they do is vacate some past games in a history book, give SC a few years probation, and loss of a few scholarships, like they have with FSU and Alabama, it will be a message to the rest of the nation's football teams that they can run amok with violations with impunity.
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