Who do you think are college football's dirtiest programs?
Another poster featuring Mandel's article calling out Ole Miss' coach Houston Nutt as a "dirty" coach got me thinking about which programs have a permanent stench
To me, you can divide them into two groups, the perennial successful programs like Alabama that constantly cheat and get caught but continue to prosper, and the flash-in-the-pan that have temporary success (Arizona St) or usually suck (Illinois) despite the cheating.
My nominations for the all-time "powers" that cheat:
Alabama, Oklahoma, FSU, Miami, Auburn....all been at it a long time.
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Nebraska!
/sarcasm (as usual with all my posts, I can't help it...I am an asshole).
so gave you a point
Given the sanctions, I think USC has to be right up there near the top
EDIT: Not to mention they just gave back a Heisman, fired their AD, watched their coach bolt to the NFL before shit hit the fan, and responded with..."lets hire Lane Kiffen and take fliers on recruits who's father's want record deals"
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:47 PM ^
People forget they were busted similarly back in the early '80s. And this time around, they were caught with major violations in both their football and men's basketball programs. And Pete Carroll (and the AD they just replaced) are running around saying no one knew anything and USC is getting the shaft? Ok, sure, I'm sure it's all just a big misunderstanding.
USC holds the philiosophy that it is ok to cheat so long as you don't get caught and if you do get caught you should still be proud of your program if the number of titles you have won by cheating more than offsets the pain of a couple of years of lost scholarships and missed bowl games. I cannot think of a program that has been more defiant or less contrite after being called out by the NCAA for major violations. Most teams at least pretend to be sorry for what they have done when they get caught.
That is why USC is the worst. This is not one coach or a couple of players. This is the philosophy of that entire athletic department. If I were the NCAA, I would add on a 2-year TV ban in response to the appeal.
Sorry, it is just tough to keep up with their many accomplishments.
Tennessee....easy.
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:15 PM ^
When the award for dirtiest program is named after your coach (sorry, former coach), you can rest assured you're the dirtiest program out there
... and it smells bad too.
Even as an SC alum I would have to go with them right now because of the sanctions. Hopefully the hammer that has come down rights the ship.
Nick Saban's oversigning at Alabama is pretty dirty and I really hate Urban Meyer's dreams about god wanting players to play for him. That seems pretty dirty to me.
Especially if you look back into the 90's, and also the Jimmy Johnson era. This has always been a team of question.
Probably the ones that don't use Tide with bleach on the road whites.
Crimson Tide?
Ohio State.
i don't know how to respond to this
But I too am at a loss for words. Guh?
Nah, you guys run a pretty clean program. Everything else about your smelly state, whorish women, and socially retarded fan base sucks though. [/fuckohio] (You can have Cedar Point too. That place is neat.)
Nah, you guys run a pretty clean program.
C'mon, they poop in coolers. That has to put them on the short list at least.
Everything in its place: it's how we keep the program so clean.
Assaults are ignored, players living in Section 8 housing is encouraged. What about the children?
Nick Saban University
New Mexico State. Those cretinous dirtbags.
Whichever program Calipari supports...
... is clearly the USC of college basketball. And the melding of Kentucky with Calipari is mind-blowing. I can only imagine what the NCAA is going to discover after Calipari and Kentucky have a few years to hone their talents together.
Naturally. OSU cus I hate them.
USC got hammered with the whole Bush thing, but I don't think Florida State gets the credit it deserves for the stunts it pulls and its total lack of interest in discipline.
miami (YTM)
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 PM ^
All SEC minus Vanderbilt
USC
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:18 PM ^
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:18 PM ^
Those nasty Armadillo's. I have never have trusted their allegedly clean, new look.
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:36 PM ^
The ESU Timberwolves, obviously. The back-up QB was very questionably allowed back on the team. I have heard rumors of steroid use as well...
Yeah and I heard rumblings of boosters straight up handing out envelopes of cash to "reward" the players.
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:20 PM ^
south
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:25 PM ^
Alphabetically, or just generally?
Minnesota State
I knew Dober was juicing his players.
