Miami and North Carolina should both send thank you cards to Penn State. These are two of the worst NCAA scandals in recent history but both are completely overshadowed by the tragedy at Penn State.
By themselves, the new Miami violations so far don't seem all that major, but when you are coming off the Nevin Shapiro mess awaiting a NCAA COI hearing, this is not the way you want to start off a new regime.
Again, no one should be thanking Penn St.
Being a college football
Being a college football investigative journalist has to be dissapointing work.
Year 0: Discovers Miami players getting inappropriate benefits. Builds story for a year.
Year 1: "This reporter discovered that a Miami booster gave about $1 million worth of everything to Miami players and recruits."
Year 2-3: Wait two years.
Year 4: Miami loses two scholarships for three seasons, no one loses job. Reporter gets to write scathing article about NCAA.
And I
think that is just it. Someone (maybe multiple persons) need to fire bomb the NCAA for their constant smoke and mirrors rutine. You can't sit there and tell me, if your the NCAA, that you will crack down on offenders (all the while your cop-for-hire quits) and then let Miami slide by. JOKE. After SMU got the ban hammer and the Fab 5 nailed a program for 10+ years I think the NCAA is scared to bomb a (top tier?) athletic program simply for the amount of money these programs generate.
GBOD
Let's not talk about
Let's not talk about firebombing anyone, m'kay?
Sorry
Mother goose equivalent = put them in time out.
GBOD
Fire bomb metaphor aside,
Fire bomb metaphor aside, you're right. The NCAA is a huge part of the problem. There's no better commentary on it than Cartman's CBAA.
Physics teacher in NY.
I don't make up the rules...
I just think them up and write them down.
Go Blue!
Miami is cooked.
It might have taken a back seat in the headlines, but I have no doubt they'll get hit hard. I know the death penalty has been talked to death about Penn State, but Miami could legitimately get it for classic NCAA violations.
Go Blue!
Like when Coca-Cola Classic came back
Ah, yes, classic NCAA violations. In the post-PSU scandal, some good old fashioned paying players scandal sure is a nice and refreshing change of pace.
Ah yes.
Those simple times when hotel rooms stocked with hookers, bags of cash and yachts were the violations everyone was talking about.
Go Blue!
When a massive scandal at
When a massive scandal at Miami looks like small potatoes compared to a en epic scandal of unprecedented proportions at Penn State of all places, the world has clearly gone insane.
If you'll forgive my bringing the rest of the US and planet
into the conversation, that's the way ALL the headlines looked when I got up this morning. Sad day for the USA and several other places on the planet.
the world has clearly gone insane.
Next thing we know, Indiana will go to the National Championship game.
Lulz Miami
and lulz NCAA. It truly is the Wild West out there. The incentives for cheating are too great and the potential consequences laughably light.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Well it looks like Golden at
Well it looks like Golden at least learned something from Paterno. Portray yourself as a no nonsense straight shooter who's as clean as the driven snow, then cheat/lie whenever needed.
That must be the same school
That must be the same school of learnin' that Tressel went to.
M'Dog
I must admit, I'm surprised by this.
I know, I know, it's Miami. I've no idea what I would do now if I was in charge there. .
Eating is murder.
Completely different
Completely different situations but worth noting, Golden is a Paterno student.
Insert Golden Shower Joke here
actually, let's don't.
Just to be clear, they're not
Just to be clear, they're not still using him. This guy's been gone since last summer. Still, looks pretty terrible. Miami might really regret that long contract extension Golden insisted on in the middle of last season.
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Is anything going to happen
Is anything going to happen to Miami. There was the big hullaballoo and then it seemed to fade out of the public eye and nothing has happened, no? Is that the NCAA's policy now?
The fact that the
The fact that the investigation is ongoing is not good for Miami. Here's a follow up article that touches on where it stands. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ap-sources-ncaa-visited-miami-184120563--ncaaf.html
Eating is murder.
Still think the best
Still think the best punishment for Miami would be two years without a home game.
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For anything. That being said, kill Penn St. and Miami football.
Yep, that's Simba made out of a pineapple.