MGoStrength

February 10th, 2016 at 6:25 AM ^

How do any of these pictures come up without significant national media scrutiny and NCAA invenstigations?  Everyone sees it, don't the schools they are visiting and the athletes owe the NCAA an explanation?

King Douche Ornery

February 10th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^

It's kid of like that police phrase, "There's a young black man driving in this here, uh, ALL AMERICAN suburb--let's pull him over"

Michigan fan sees a pic of a young man holding money, assumes that ALL THERE RECROOTZ are being paid otherwise they would come here and we would win all the champisonshipz so WAAAAHHH INVESTIGATE ILLEGAL"

See, dope?

SAMgO

February 9th, 2016 at 9:28 PM ^

No. The NCAA is fully aware that schools pay players and largely aware of which schools are paying players. They choose not to heavily enforce their own rules out of self-interest. This will be no different.




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mGrowOld

February 9th, 2016 at 9:34 PM ^

This time things will be different.  This time the NCAA has all the evidence it needs to truly lay down the law and inflict a punishment so severe and so damaging to the program that schools will truly fear the rath of the NCAA.  The enforcement wing of the NCAA is ready for action and is not pussyfooting around one day longer.

Morgan State is going to get absolutely pulverized.

snarling wolverine

February 9th, 2016 at 10:05 PM ^

They choose not to heavily enforce their own rules out of self-interest.

Everyone keeps saying this, but if so, why would two huge programs like USC and OSU receive sanctions and Ole Miss get off the hook?

The real issue is that the NCAA can't force people to testify, which makes it difficult for them to obtain proof.

funkywolve

February 10th, 2016 at 10:34 AM ^

I look at it differently.  When I see that a school's football coach knowingly played athletes who weren't eligible, and all they get is a one year postseason ban - that seems pretty tame to me.

I could be wrong but there's no evidence that the USC coaches knew what was taking place with Bush, right?  Do I think it's naive to believe the USC coaches didn't know what was going on or at least had some idea - yes.  Tressell got caught red handed (and he had a history of previous ncaa violations dating back to YSU) and all the OSU football program got was a slap on the wrist, imo.  

jmblue

February 10th, 2016 at 11:29 AM ^

They did also vacate a season, had some players suspended for part or all of 2011, and lost a few scholarships.  Firing Tressel probably spared them some additional punishment, but it wasn't a total slap on the wrist.  It just seems that way because they hired Meyer right after.  That's the real issue - finding a good replacement coach for the one you fire over the NCAA violations.  We didn't do that after Fisher.  USC hasn't after Carroll either.

Hail Harbo

February 10th, 2016 at 3:04 AM ^

SMU went down because they dismissed a couple of players whom they had been paying.  It was the local media in Dallas that brought down SMU and in fact the Dallas Herald was severely hurt by SMU Bagmen, of local businesses, when they pulled their advertising.  Much of the damning evidence was investigated and produced by Dale Hansen, a neighbor of mine, who was then the sports director of the local ABC affiliate.

But agreed, yes, unless the school does stupid shit like firing bought players, it will likely have to be a criminal investigation that produces evidence of NCAA violations.

funkywolve

February 10th, 2016 at 10:38 AM ^

I think it was on one of those 30 for 30's but some of the SMU people had signed contracts with players and left paper trails regarding the money.  Not disagreeing with what you're saying but just adding that there was hard, cold evidence that players were getting extra benefits.