Major D-1 University Is About To Be In Hot Water
I know this is frowned upon but I read a really interesting thread on Rivals and wanted to hear what the board thinks. Apparently a major news source is about to publish a report about a major D-1 school that not many would expect. There are supposed to be names, dates and amounts. It was stated that it close to coming out, maybe before Summer. They have to get all of their facts straight before coming out with it. It's supposed to be a huge news story and sounds like it could absolutely devastate whichever school it is. A lot of people are speculating that it is PSU or ND. If I find anything else out I'll let you know. Let the speculation begin.
February 24th, 2011 at 5:30 PM ^
100 years of dominance is stretching it a bit...but clearly it would be nice to win without our opponents being depleted.
February 24th, 2011 at 5:37 PM ^
I'll take the wins, and let outsiders bitch that the conference wasn't tough enough. In the 1970s, when we had the nation's best winning percentage, the Big Ten mostly sucked. We ran roughshod over most of our opponents. It was fun.
February 24th, 2011 at 5:43 PM ^
and his West Virginia teams agree.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:29 PM ^
Just end the conference. They bring nothing to the table.
Any update on when the news report will come out?
February 24th, 2011 at 4:04 PM ^
what about Basketball?
February 24th, 2011 at 4:08 PM ^
The bouncey ball doesn't matter here.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:31 PM ^
"... school not many would expect"
It's Purdue. Book it.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:47 PM ^
February 24th, 2011 at 3:54 PM ^
Does Purdue have message board posters? Wouldn't that require them having fans?
February 24th, 2011 at 4:03 PM ^
it's not fandom when you're paid
February 24th, 2011 at 4:26 PM ^
That eliminates OSU
February 24th, 2011 at 4:56 PM ^
Are they a a major D-1 team?
February 24th, 2011 at 3:31 PM ^
Maybe it'll be reported that Charlie Weiss literally ate one of his players while at Notre Dame. It probably damaged their APR.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:36 PM ^
As big of a fan I am of "Ha, your coach is fat" jokes, sadly, I'm afraid that we are in no position to make them anymore.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:44 PM ^
Hoke is lovably husky, like a young Chris Farley. Weiss was "that guy needs an intervention" fat.
February 24th, 2011 at 5:03 PM ^
Oh. My apologies. He's just big boned.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:44 PM ^
February 24th, 2011 at 5:09 PM ^
I would describe Weiss as 20 pounds of shit stuffed into a 10 pound sack. Hoke is more of a chubby funster.
February 25th, 2011 at 12:13 AM ^
February 24th, 2011 at 10:48 PM ^
funny thng is that CW (IIRC) had a gastric bypass while he was still with NE and he is still that big.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:45 PM ^
I would describe Hoke as more big than fat. He looks like an old football player. Weis just looks like an obese man.
February 24th, 2011 at 4:11 PM ^
I stood next to Coach Hoke and had a conversation with him and he is neither big nor egrediously fat. Perhaps my perspective is a little skewed at 6'3 245lbs, but he's not Geroge Perles in his latter years. I remember commenting to myself (I do that a lot) that he "looks bigger on tv."
February 24th, 2011 at 11:13 PM ^
Yeah the camera adds a couple ... hundred pounds.
/TommyBoy
//notaseriouscomment
February 24th, 2011 at 11:16 PM ^
ARGH FIRST EVER DOUBLE-POST
(shakes fist at shitty hotel internet connection)
February 24th, 2011 at 3:33 PM ^
Someone had to say this but...
It's not us right?
February 24th, 2011 at 3:37 PM ^
People have been joking about the 3* mafia the last 3 years, and you think it might be us?
February 24th, 2011 at 3:40 PM ^
It could be. Like someone stated above this is extremly vague. I thought it was something the board would love to discuss so I posted it. With our current problems along with osu having tatto gate I wouldn't think it would be either.
February 24th, 2011 at 7:34 PM ^
our fanbase is e-savvy enough that i think we wouldve heard something if it was us
February 24th, 2011 at 3:36 PM ^
February 24th, 2011 at 3:38 PM ^
the did call him 'juice' williams
February 24th, 2011 at 3:38 PM ^
It's not tennesse? The program is under investgation again, same with basketball and baseball. It seems like the NCAA is doing whatever it can to beat the UT athletic department into the ground.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:49 PM ^
They got their notice of allegations yesterday. Can't imagine they'd have more allegations come out immediately after. NCAA probably would have waited and packaged everything.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:39 PM ^
Is there info in it that you can conlcude its not US?
February 24th, 2011 at 3:42 PM ^
into the ring for Illinois. They aren't a school that would be "expected" to commit violations, I'd classify them as a major D-1 and they have regularly outperformed on the recruiting trail in recent years despite being pretty bad.
ND is a close second for all the same reasons.
February 24th, 2011 at 4:17 PM ^
With very little to show for it. For instance, Mike White left Illnois after the NCAA put it on probation. While White lead them to the 1984 Rose Bowl, they lost to a 6-4-1 UCLA team, and none of his other teams managed more than a loss in a second tier bowl.
February 24th, 2011 at 4:18 PM ^
illinois used to get nailed for violations all the time. i would certainly expect it of illinois and especially zook
February 24th, 2011 at 3:42 PM ^
Where has Rosenberg been on this one?
February 24th, 2011 at 3:44 PM ^
February 24th, 2011 at 5:05 PM ^
That would make some sense also, but I'm still picking ND.
February 24th, 2011 at 9:42 PM ^
Oklahoma and Nebraska would certainly fit the bill of major programs that you wouldn't expect. It would also put to rest the complete enigma of how 18-year-old kids voluntarily choose to spend four years of their lives in Oklahoma and Nebraska.
February 24th, 2011 at 10:39 PM ^
Oklahoma would not be a surprise, they are one of the dirtiest programs in the country. Kids go there because of the benefits and it's not just football players. The whole AD is dirty. I have lived in Oklahoma for over 20 years and Tulsa is pretty decent but the rest of the state is pure hell including Oklahoma City, Norman, and Stillwater.
February 24th, 2011 at 10:53 PM ^
have never lived in Ohio.
February 25th, 2011 at 9:26 AM ^
Never lived there but I have spent some time in Ohio and I always thought the two states were identical except one is cold longer and the other is warm longer. Hell Oklahoma fans and Ohio State fans are identical too.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:46 PM ^
I think ND fits perfectly. They recruit top classes every year and still suck. The fact that they pay players and still suck would be the surprising part.
It would be funny if they were banned from TV. They would lose their precious NBC deal and nobody would want them in their conference. They would have no source of revenue other than ticket sales, which would probably plummet.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:55 PM ^
February 24th, 2011 at 3:45 PM ^
You know the payoff is not going to be satisfying at all. Either Western Kentucky gets hammered for one player sneezing during a compliance meeting or Penn State gets a slap on the wrist for running an incest orgy cult.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:47 PM ^
February 24th, 2011 at 3:46 PM ^
This is what it was
There is a major news outlet that is on the verge of publishing a report that will blow the lid off a major D-I program, and not a school many would suspect................
They are inches away from having all they need to go on it. I would expect something before summer and it will be a bombshell, with names-dates-amounts.
This won't be a message board blog, but rather, a huge news story. But to publish something like that, you better have your facts right. I think they've got it...............
February 25th, 2011 at 9:50 AM ^
So not the Columbus Dispatch or Detroit Free Press? (Not anything in Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Tennessee either ...)
The Chicago Tribune? The New York Times? Hmmm ...
February 24th, 2011 at 3:46 PM ^
heard on espn that the only schools with no major violations are northwestern, BC, stanford and PSU; and NW and BC have had point shaving scandals
if i had to take a wild stab i'd say PSU. not with joepa's knowledge of course, but id have to imagine itd be pretty easy to hide from him