Dan Mullen gets 1-year show cause penalty for recruiting violations

Dollars to donuts that even in spite of/because of this, there will still be a hot take CC: Dan Mullen MGoThread arguing that at least he was willing to get his hands a little dirty to get top tier talent instead of three stars from New England

Among the penalties levied against Florida are a $5,000 fine and one year of probation. Mullen's show-cause order prevented him from "all off-campus recruiting activity during the fall 2020 evaluation period" and includes "a four-day off-campus recruiting ban during the fall 2021 contact period."

That's a real deterrent from cheating right there. Nice job NCAA!

Very minor.  Please show us the bag men.

Build a winning program and deal with the occasional violation, controversy, infractions?

vs

Build a mediocre program and boast about academic superiority and graduation rate?

One team is much happier than the other team.

For some MGoDenizens a show cause is just an indication that someone really is a fighter!

Mostly unrelated thought:

Anytime I hear or read the name' Dan Mullen' I can't help but imagine a smelly guy with a mullet.

Ok. But at least he didn't poison Lane Kiffin through his underpants.

Loved the cadence of  THE_KNOWLEDGE...   he said Mullen was to be our coach.  What ever happened to him ?  Did one of the mods boot him ?

It isn't particularly shocking to me that he's a Meyer disciple.  He's a good offensive mind but I couldn't imagine him working out at Michigan (despite what some fans apparently wish).

Sure seems like a small price to pay to go out and make sure you get the guys you need to build a championship-caliber team.

These days, penalties like this are just nothing more than "the cost of doing business."

It is past time to blow the whole NCAA thing up for big time football at least.  They don’t go after the real abuses, they protect the big programs, they make a big deal over silly little punishments, and they line the pockets of bureaucrats with untold dollars while the kids who make the money for them have to fret over someone buying them a meal.  And the system they have created has resulted in a concentration of talent in a handful of programs, which makes the season predictable and far less enjoyable.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.  End it.  

"Show cause" =

• Show or explain why you did that outrageously dishonest thing.

• "Cuz I thought I could get away with it."

Listen, we need to accept that until were willing to do what these type of coaches do Harbaugh is our best option. 

if you ain't cheating you ain't trying