LSU Self Imposes Sanctions
Title says it all. Sanctions include banning OBJ for 2 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/10/21/lsu-sanctions-odell-beckham/
October 21st, 2020 at 5:57 PM ^
SEC....unsurprising
October 22nd, 2020 at 11:28 AM ^
... it just means more
October 21st, 2020 at 5:57 PM ^
What a fucking joke.
College football in general, that is.
But this Funes guy is a huge, Lake Pontchartrain-sized pile of shit:
According to the Advocate, Funes admitted to stealing gift cards meant for cancer patients, flying family and friends to LSU and New Orleans Saints football games on charter flights labeled as “outbound patient transports,” and sent money to people who did little to no work for the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation over a seven-year period, beginning in 2012.
October 21st, 2020 at 5:57 PM ^
The title does not say it all. What sanctions are they self imposing? What are they self imposing them?
October 21st, 2020 at 6:14 PM ^
You’re right. First post so I expected some criticism.
But hey the link works, it wasn’t posted before, and it’s not OT!
October 21st, 2020 at 6:26 PM ^
LSU is, and always will be, OT.
October 21st, 2020 at 8:05 PM ^
Rafiki would have known better.
October 21st, 2020 at 10:33 PM ^
Link works behind a paywall....
October 22nd, 2020 at 5:15 AM ^
Hakuna Matata, Rafiki.
October 21st, 2020 at 6:17 PM ^
I saw 8 scholarships noted elsewhere but not how many years....wouldn't put it past LSU to select the exact number of players they expect to be under 85 either this year or next.
This is being self imposed over the $180k given to a recruit/recruit's family that has been documented. They are throwing the OBJ stuff as extra fluff and hoping that the NCAA says OK. Keep in mind this is the same school heavily featured on the tapes in the MBB scandal last year so there is a chance the NCAA goes for more.
October 21st, 2020 at 6:29 PM ^
Forgive my cynicism but I'm sure LSU athletics is having financial challenges given COVID. So dropping 8 scholarships could be seen as a prudent cost cutting measure.
As for COVID cost cutting, if any athletic department had integrity they would not drop scholarships which benefit the athlete. They would reduce the ridiculous sums they pay celebrity coaches and pencil pushing department execucrats.
October 21st, 2020 at 7:48 PM ^
the sanctions are more severe than that: no shrimp gumbo on wednesdays for the rest of the season. vicious.
October 21st, 2020 at 10:29 PM ^
That alone may turn away 9 recruits.
October 21st, 2020 at 10:36 PM ^
The NCAA will take their self-imposed sanctions into consideration when it comes to punishment, but it they are gonna throw the book at Louisiana Tech.
October 22nd, 2020 at 6:16 AM ^
you mean the louisiana college of welding and flower arrangement. no torches and no vases for them.
October 21st, 2020 at 6:08 PM ^
Justice for the security guard at the Superdome, at last.
October 21st, 2020 at 6:12 PM ^
The OBJ ban is for two years, and because he dealt out cash at the end of the NC game last year. The big deal, though, is this:
"The most egregious violation involves not Beckham but an LSU booster named John Paul Funes, whom the school has determined paid the father of former offensive lineman Vadal Alexander $180,000 in money Funes embezzled from Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge. The payments took place from 2012 to 2017 and involved a “no-show” job taken by Alexander’s father."
So, in exchange for paying $180K to win a NC, they're volunteering to give up 8 scholly's over two years. If Michigan were to make this deal, I'd take it... Who knows what the NCAA will do. I mean, they accepted that OBJ's cash was fake money. JFC
October 21st, 2020 at 6:20 PM ^
Always felt the OBJ deal was silly, but if Brady, Woodson, Bush Jr. handed out $100 handshakes after a national title win...I’d be all for it
October 21st, 2020 at 11:24 PM ^
It amazes me how the NCAA is so terrible at enforcing rules on their cash cow. If you don’t enforce the rules, then let EVERYBODY pay players. Let EVERY Alumni base ante up to the table, and lets see where it shakes out. Can’t have $EC rules and then rules for the rest of us.
October 21st, 2020 at 6:30 PM ^
Until the NCAA does something with Will Wade and LSU's basketball program, i'm not gonna hold my breath that they would touch their football program.
October 21st, 2020 at 10:23 PM ^
I love how it’s just “oh yeah it was fake” and then it obviously wasn’t and no one cares that they blatantly lied
October 21st, 2020 at 11:23 PM ^
Burrow said on the radio the next day that it was indeed real.
October 21st, 2020 at 7:02 PM ^
Perfect timing. They’re 1-2, lost to two bad teams and this is a lost season for them that’s also got an asterisk next to it for anyone anyway due to COVID, and they’re going to get skull-fucked by Alabama. Might as well self-impose “sanctions” now.
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:17 AM ^
I'm surprised they didn't through in a one year bowl ban (this year, of course).
October 21st, 2020 at 7:05 PM ^
"Do you think shaq got rich playing in Orlando?"
"No dude. Shaq got rich playing in college."
October 21st, 2020 at 8:04 PM ^
“Everyone knows that.”
Baseketball is an underrated movie.
October 21st, 2020 at 10:00 PM ^
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AccurateLonelyAfricanjacana-mobile.mp4
October 21st, 2020 at 7:14 PM ^
Did they sanction back all the money from Natty t-shirts/sweatshirts, jerseys and caps?
Go Blue.
October 21st, 2020 at 7:50 PM ^
This is a bit of new low. It's one thing when bagment connect rich boosters to prospective players.
THIS is a case of a booster paying a player's father $180k of money he fucking EMBEZZLED FROM A CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
Also, OBJ was caught handing out wads of cash directly to players.
October 22nd, 2020 at 8:54 AM ^
I'm against embezzling money from children's hospitals, hopefully I don't get in trouble for this brave stance
October 21st, 2020 at 8:04 PM ^
heading down there friday, I'll ask around.
October 21st, 2020 at 8:04 PM ^
I wouldn’t mind it if Brady threw a bunch of cash at some M players who just won a National Title ... even if it meant some sanctions and a loss of a few scholarships. Could do without the embezzling booster though.
I just want to see one more title before I die.
October 21st, 2020 at 8:14 PM ^
This is something that will be overlooked. We will be the only ones saying anything about how bad they are. If we follow this for the whole time I wonder if they will even follow all of the self imposed sanctions.....doubt it. We always talk down about the teams that hand out money (and steroids in staee case) but nothing ever happens....ever. If the Fab 5 were in this generation and all of that stuff went down like it did we would more than likely have multiple nation titles because we would have had the 5 star players who would have continued to funnel into Ann Arbor.
October 21st, 2020 at 8:29 PM ^
Something tells me that this isn't the end of it.
October 21st, 2020 at 8:47 PM ^
I want a "no show job" fuck.
October 21st, 2020 at 9:22 PM ^
Zero accountability, slap on the wrist punishment. NCAA at its finest.
October 21st, 2020 at 9:47 PM ^
They're gonna run some stairs.
October 21st, 2020 at 9:49 PM ^
I think that, in the SEC, cutting scholarships just moves people to the potential pool of grayshirted individuals. I can see this now:
"We simply reclassified the scholarship players. You asked us to reduce the figures so we did."
"The number of SCHOLARSHIPS, yes, but not the number of PLAYERS."
"Well, be more careful with your words."
October 21st, 2020 at 10:16 PM ^
I’ll take winning for doing this every single time. Need to start playing like they do. On and off the field. $
October 21st, 2020 at 11:30 PM ^
The dude has been elevated to legend status with the leaks of these pictures.
October 21st, 2020 at 11:30 PM ^
Think his wife is a cancer survivor as well- I think colon cancer? They did a big piece on it on GameDay, they seemed quite the happy couple. I’m guessing this won’t get the same level of attention.
October 21st, 2020 at 11:56 PM ^
About damn time and still not enough
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:38 PM ^
In the article linked above, it is noted that the money was real... hence the two year ban of OBJ