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I believe there's going to be a bowl ban as well. The question is, will be for this year or for next year? Let's hope they do this soon enough so it's this year.
I scanned this thread over at scout.com's Buckeye's page and the "higher-ups" seem to believe that OSU is not looking at a bowl ban. I don't know how credible they are or anything, just reporting what those die-hards say. To be clear also, because I didn't know myself, the scholarship ban is 5 total scholarships over the next three years, not 5 scholarships each year over the next three years.
My personal take, a biased one at that, is that it is possible that the NCAA wants to show that they're willing to work with institutions that cooperate when caught for infractions. They hung USC when they caught them (SMC too), but USC and SMC fought them the whole way. If I were in the athletic department of a school that has corruption going on, I would have bolstered my cover-ups in light of those punishments (ala Cam Newton *allegedly*). IF the NCAA handles OSU on a less severe note because they've cooperated and been pro-active, other programs might see that it is better to cut the head off the monster before the corruption gets too intertwined with the institution. Just a thought.
I have been saying this all along, but no one believes the Pudue alumni that OSU will get a one year bowl ban.
That being said, how minor does OSU's violations look now. Both coaches covered things up, but that's where the similarities end. Tresell covered up NCAA violations that I would argue most people don't even find morally wrong. What Paterno did wasn't against NCAA rules (he did "go to his bosses"), but he covered up the most morally sickening crime known to man.
My problem is that OSU might find a harsher penalty for their crime than Penn State simply because Penn State wasnt a NCAA violations. There is really something wrong with how things operate when the cover up of selling of your own jewelry is worse than covering up child molestation, but I have a feeling thats how its going to come down.
You were saying this before the stuff with Bobby D came out, and you were wrong.
Only after new allegations did this even become a possibility.
I find you stating that only the new allegations made it possible odd. You could agrue that it was probable after the new allegations, but it has always been possible. Since these major infractions come within the 5 year wake of previous major infractions, the death penalty is even possible. Its just not very probable.
The OSU case will be a textbook example for why universities will no longer self-report violations.
The SEC schools are sitting down south laughing their collective asses off at how badly the folks up north cheat.
Does that include the 200k Auburn paid for its national title...Ermm Cam Newton?