OT: Will Alabama be Investigated?

Nay. Corruption is now the law of the land. It is all a rigged game of the rich and powerful.

But that would mean Saban had gotten caught riding with a buxom young G.A. on his Harley. Not much chance of that I suppose.

You're right, Kiffen's the better call.

coaches in America in one of the most talent rich areas can have enormous success without cheating. Cmon, we're better than that. I'd like to think that if we started dominating other schools wouldn't automatically assume that we were cheating.

The stuff they're doing that really tip the scale in there favor (oversigning), isn't even against the rules.

$500 would have a lot of money to me. Paying back $500 would have been hard to do. Now if Ha Ha borrowed $500 to cover his rent that he would gladly pay coach back on Tuesday when the scholarship room and board check deposited, that's a pretty minor thing compared to say signing all kinds of memorabilia in a hotel and alledgedly getting nothing in return ...

7 Championships in 8 years or whatever the hell it's up to now-a-days and the perception that any team in the SEC is Gods gift to footbaw'. 

We should take note of the apparent fact that Alabama took action in this case before it bacame a splashy story in the media.  The 'Bama story, from the perspective of the media, was that Alabama administrators had found something amiss, and had suspended both the player and the coach in question.  No doubt but that part of it all was Alabama's self-reporting a secondary violation to the NCAA.  The NCAA might well look upon all of that as a secondary matter, or else as a major violation deserving little in terms of investigative effort.

The NCAA doesn't want to open large-scale investigations on anybody.  Those investigations are expensive and time-consuming.  They sap NCAA resources.  They tend to make everybody involved look bad.

The NCAA relies upon the self-reporting and self-investigation of its member institutions.  Yes, it will do investigations.  The Michigan case in August/September of 2009 is a case in point; absolutely wild and eye-popping allegations made in a newspaper, to which the member institution cannot say "Yes, in fact we have already investigated that and self-reported it..."

And that is the monstrous nature of what the Free Press/Rosenberg/Snyder (you left out of your post any mention of Mark Snyder, -- who is still working the Michigan football beat).  Rosenberg worked at creating a story in which they deliberately kept Michigan administrators in the dark until the last possible moment before publication.  Even to the extent of making the published story much crappier than it needed to be by virtue of having gotten so much information wrong about technical aspects of CARA time computations.  That, as a result of never having talked to anybody of consequence in the Michigan Athletic Department questions about what they were working on.

The Michigan case quickly turned into a joint Michigan/NCAA investigation because of the way it unfolded, with Michigan unable to respond to allegations so terrible that they were almost bewildering.  Alabama might not have that problem.

We saw this very thing, when other schools became aware of the Michigan situation, and began to self-report secondary violations with regard to CARA time calculations and other related matters.  And nobody got hit with major violations when that was done by way of self-reporting.

So two things:  (1) Alabama's self-reporting (and I confess to not knowing exactly what they have done privately with the NCAA) might put the institution in good stead with the NCAA.  And (2); please let's all not forget that Mark Snyder and his newspaper are still in our midst and he ought to be treated as the suspect character that he showed himself to be in 2009.