mGrowOld

February 9th, 2016 at 9:55 PM ^

They actually DID levy some pretty stiff punishments initially to PSU.   But then Penn State issued a statement saying they were real sorry for shielding a child rapist for over 10 years and that the next time one of their coaches starts raping children well by golly next time they will do something about it.  Eventually.  When the time is right.

So faced with that the NCAA had no choice but to take back the punishment that was....you know....punishing and replace it with the slap on the wrist version you see today.

What else could they do?

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1464

February 9th, 2016 at 11:18 PM ^

Are you new to the site or a former poster? If I joined a message board and the morans on the board kept accusing me of being another poster, I would probably just quit that board and always think they were a weird neurotic group of people. The fact that you stay and continue to simply offer denials. Well... That's telling...

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SBo

February 9th, 2016 at 11:33 PM ^

I don't want to "quit this board". It's the best free source of Michigan information. I've learned a lot since I've been here. There isn't really another Michigan website like this. I guess I could just end my account, but wouldn't that be adding to the argument that I am, in fact, WD? Plus, it's a lot more fun to have an account. As a lurker for the previous 4-5 years, I might have an opinion on something and I couldn't say it. Why didn't I create an account earlier? I don't know

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mGrowOld

February 9th, 2016 at 11:59 PM ^

You mean like Discuss Man?  I really liked that guy - always starting threads with interesting topics and encouraging us to talk about them and then BAM, one day he's gone.  Not sure why he left us but ironically he was also being accused of being a WD dobbleganger.

You keep fighting the good fight Benn.  Don't let these negative nancy's run you off like they did poor old Discuss Man.

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King Douche Ornery

February 10th, 2016 at 12:12 PM ^

Again, I see these dicusssions from people who pretend to be college graduates, many pretend to be grad school graduates, and many pretend to be people who have real importan jobs--=all bitching about sissy points, who poses as who, who has been been banned--

 

All this stuff tells me there's  a whole lot of freaks on this board wo've really nothing better to do, despite all those graduate degrees and such...

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Blue_In_Texas

February 9th, 2016 at 9:51 PM ^

It is also sad that of all these violations, they really have no way of enforcing giving kids cash. 

I'm not sure there is really anything they can practically do about it. Both sides have a great incentive to keep quiet when it occurs. I go to grad school with a guy whose family knows boosters there and he says they give out 5 figure sums for mere vists. I can't exactly say that if I were in HS i wouldn't take it. I probably would. 

 

Anyway, at least they will never be as good as the top programs in the SEC. 

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ramenboy

February 9th, 2016 at 9:52 PM ^

I'm probably being a naive little baby deer, but if the NCAA wanted to make a show of force, yet not piss off the true money machine blue bloods of the SEC, wouldn't Ole Miss be a nice sacrificial lamb?



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LSAClassOf2000

February 9th, 2016 at 9:54 PM ^

We are talking about the same organization that threatened the eligibility of a couple student-athletes unless they paid for the extra pasta that they consumed at a team function, and the same organization that once gave a UNLV basketball player the thir degree over purchasing a used mattress. I don't know that I am going to fully trust the NCAA to be of sound judgment on this particular matter.

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Perkis-Size Me

February 9th, 2016 at 10:01 PM ^

While I don't think anything will really happen other than losing a few scholarships and a few years of probation, this isn't the least bit surprising.

Ole Miss has never been like an Alabama, an OSU, a USC, ND, or UM. They've had Archie Manning to their name and that's about it. They were hot garbage for years until Freeze showed up, and then almost overnight, all the top players in America want to go there. I'm sure Hugh Freeze is a cool guy, and yeah they have some fine SEC girls, but very little could convince me that shady shit isn't going on down in Oxford.



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kb

February 9th, 2016 at 10:01 PM ^

supposedly been coming down on North Carolina for like the last five years? If it hasn't happened for them you think Ole Miss is going to get in trouble?

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Mr Miggle

February 10th, 2016 at 6:33 AM ^

then changed their mind after more reports came out. It's a very serious manner and I think the NCAA is now acting correctly by letting other investigations play out. I suspect member schools will be divided about the appropriate response, much like they were about Penn State. The ultimate decision about punishment will be hammered out by school presidents and ADs, not by their typical process. 

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lilpenny1316

February 9th, 2016 at 10:12 PM ^

Why couldn't this come out one week earlier?  Not saying we would've had a chance at Greg Little, but it would've been interesting to see how some last minute negative recruiting against Ole Miss could've benefitted other teams.

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