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Wow. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I don't care what these kids do as long as it's legal. But it's against the NCAA's rules and crap so it's big and newsworthy.

ESPN is so pissed that this wasn't OSU
 
ESPN doesn't give that much of a shit about this story.

Yahoo did their part. They won't continuously harp on it for the next six months.

If they can prove any involvement by the university, especially Donna Shalala....this is Hiroshima for them.
 
Can we now please admit that every major program does this?

Just because Miami got busted harder doesn't mean programs like Ohio State, USC, Florida, etc. don't give the same illegal benefits to their players.

Anyone who doesn't agree is naive.

End of the day players getting paid, getting free cars, etc. doesnt change how they do on the field. On don't give me the "they'd be ineligible" crap.
 
My question: If all allegations are true, is the death penalty able to be administered?
 
Can we now please admit that every major program does this?

Just because Miami got busted harder doesn't mean programs like Ohio State, USC, Florida, etc. don't give the same illegal benefits to their players.

Anyone who doesn't agree is naive.

End of the day players getting paid, getting free cars, etc. doesnt change how they do on the field. On don't give me the "they'd be ineligible" crap.

So you're saying putting bounties on rivalry games doesn't affect the players whatsoever?
 
My question: If all allegations are true, is the death penalty able to be administered?

Gonna say no, although the basketball team is also involved, like USC. That allows for a FTM or LOIC charge.
 
The Death Penalty is what was given to SMU back in the 80's where the football program is banned altogether, then when they return recruitment and scholarships are severely limited.

It was given to SMU to prove a point. They were very brazen with what they were doing and they were doing it right out in the public.

I think it would take a lot for them to do this again. Honestly, this would be a perfect time and perfect situation with several very high profile universities having given the NCAA very public black eyes in the last few years. Doubt they'd do it though.
 
So you're saying putting bounties on rivalry games doesn't affect the players whatsoever?

What I'm trying to say is Reggie Bush getting extra benefits didn't change anything on the field bar a little extra motivation.

You know players on both teams are getting a little extra spending money to play well vs. Michigan. Both so are the Michigan players. In the end it comes down to the talent on the field and whoever makes fewer mistakes. The extra drive to pocket 5 Benjamins after the game plays a role, but don't act like it's the prime difference between a win and a loss.
 
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If there’s any seedy, slimy karma left in this college football offseason, egomaniacal sports analyst Danny Sheridan drops the final, fateful bomb Wednesday afternoon.

Sheridan has been proclaiming on Twitter for nearly a week that he knows the name of the person who allegedly paid Cam Newton to play for defending national champion Auburn, and will tell all on the nationally-syndicated Paul Finebaum radio show. Suddenly, though, that story of the year doesn’t look so ominous.


Twelve players on Al Golden's Hurricanes roster were implicated in the Yahoo! Sports report, including QB Jacory Harris. (AP Photo)
The Miami Hurricanes, in what could be the biggest scandal in college football history, just made the SMU Mustangs of the 1980s look like jaywalkers.

A Yahoo! Sports investigative report released Tuesday revealed a former Miami booster provided thousands of impermissible benefits to at least 72 athletes from 2002 to 2010. The range and depth of the violations are so shocking—cash payoffs, cash bounties on opponents’ players, trips, jewelry, prostitutes, among other things—even Sheridan’s look-at-me moment can’t top it.

The only thing that can: The end of the NCAA as we know it.

For years, some of the sport’s biggest programs and administrators have kicked around the idea of taking their ball and playing by their rules. The 50 or so biggest college football programs would break away from the NCAA, start their own association and get down and dirty.

Basically, the wild, wild West.

This nuclear option was set up in case the BCS imploded; in case Congress forced an anti-trust issue on the game’s BCS schools. Now, in this offseason of nonstop NCAA violations, it has to be seen as an option because the game has begun to eat itself in a horrifying example of greed and gluttony.

It’s bad enough that these blatant examples of rule breaking occur. It’s worse when those whose job it is to monitor players are on the take, too.

What else can you call it? Nevin Shapiro, the Hurricanes booster at the center of the report, says Miami knew what he was doing and turned a blind eye. Jim Tressel knew what his players at Ohio State were doing, and to keep his players eligible, didn’t admit it until nine months later. The NCAA says former USC assistant coach Todd McNair “knew or should have known” Reggie Bush was accepting illegal benefits.

And then, the ultimate slap in the face of amateurism: The NCAA declares Cecil Newton shopped his son’s services to the highest bidder. Then admitted it had no rule against it.

NCAA president Mark Emmert can talk tough; he can call for a retreat of university presidents to fix the game—one of those presidents was Miami’s Donna Shalala, who was hit with damning anecdotal evidence in the Yahoo! report. Emmert can talk of curing the ills of amateur sports. But it’s all a sham.

Full cost of attendance scholarships, stringent academic requirements and multiyear scholarships aren’t going to stop the cheating and the lies and the deceit. It’s not going to keep a coach from trying to keep players eligible, or another coach from ignoring a booster paying recruits, or third-party street agents from trying to influence high school players.

If the Almighty himself couldn’t stop sin, who are we to think big, bad Mark Emmert can?

Look, this stuff has gone on for decades in college sports. It’s just that today’s instantaneous microwave media makes it nearly impossible to get away with. Someone knows someone who knows another who has an axe to grind. And away we go.

There’s really no other alternative. The top 50 schools break away, come up with a system of paying athletes and determining a national champion; of negotiating new multi-billion dollar television deals and divisions of 10 teams each; of eliminating all pretense of playing by the rules and playing for the common good of a common goal.

No more recruiting rules, no more bowl games. No more eligibility standards, no more college degrees.

All that garbage just gets in the way, anyway. Right?

“I just did what I wanted,” Shapiro told Yahoo!, “and didn’t pay much mind toward the potential repercussions.”

Go ahead, Danny Sheridan. Have your moment in the sun.

Shout it loud and shout it strong.

It’s just another step toward the end of the NCAA as we know it.



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The SMU scandal was way worse IMO.

They were on probation, and had booster meetings with the SMU President and AD about how to pay players and were subsequently busted again.

Much bigger ring and web of scandalous activity.

But man, if they can prove the AD was involved or something to that effect. This will be 10x worse than USC.

This looks to be the biggest scandal since SMU though, without question.
 
For years, some of the sport’s biggest programs and administrators have kicked around the idea of taking their ball and playing by their rules. The 50 or so biggest college football programs would break away from the NCAA, start their own association and get down and dirty.

Ever since the emergence of the Big 10 network I've considered this a possibility for the Big 10. To just have the 12 teams break away and start their own league with their own rules. I wouldn't miss the one big non-conference season game. I might miss the Rose Bowl, but I honestly could see a split from the NCAA having great potential for the Big 10; differently if they are the 1st to do it. They could negotiate a deal with NBC or FOX for a weekly Saturday night game and have the rest exclusive on the Big 10 Network greatly increasing the network's revenue. They could provide a stipend and a full ride to every player among other benefits. Such a package would make any top recruit think twice about going to a non-Big 10 school, and eventually other schools I'm sure would join in. It wouldn't just be football of course as the other sports would have to leave to, and as long as they kept the number of opportunities for male and female athletes equal I don't think it would violate Title IX although I'm not positive..

Eventually these school will wonder what does the NCAA do for them other then take a large cut of their money and the negatives will start the outweigh the positives. If any commissioner was to break off on his own I think it would be Jim Delany.

Would anyone stop being a Buckeyes fan or a Wolverines, Cornhusker, or Badgers fan just because you no longer play a couple random MAC teams and a Big 12 team each year. Would you really miss all the BCS controversy? I don't think I would.
 
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