Since they will not be going to a bowl due to their own stupidity, should the University of South Carolina be required to reimburse the other 11 SEC member institutions with their share of the bowl payout USC would have gotten in a bowl game. Lets say that USC would have gone to the Indy Bowl. They would get a 1.2 million payout for playing in Shreveport. This means $100K to every other SEC team. However, this money now doesn't go to the SEC because USC can't play in a bowl game. The entire SEC pays for USC getting in a fight with a non-SEC school. :cuss:
Better yet, don't give USC their cut from all of the SEC bowls. That would hurt them more than paying the 1.2 mil.
Everyone seems to be blaming it on SC. If you look at the film it looks like Clemson started it. Holtz ran out and tried to get it stopped and was very aplolgetic later. Tommy Bowden later rationalized it as being due to the players seeing the Piston-pacers fiasco and saying that set a bad example for the Clemson players. Sounds like the old Diddy Bowden "defend the thugs" line to me.
It looked to me like Clemson started the whole mess and Bowdens moronic comment blamming what happened on the NBA game was a major stain on him and Clemson. Then you see some Clemson player running around the field holding a Carolina helmut high in the air like some terrorist head hunter and all in all it was a total embarrassment for those teams and college football in general.
Clemson no bowl either Both sides are to blame. A USC player grabbed a Clemson helmet and started hittting people with it. And, yes Bowden's statement was pretty stupid. The president of Clemson just announced that Clemson would turn down its bowl bid.
If that's true, then it would have to be the single most moronic quote I've ever had the displeasure of reading about. Did he actually think people would accept that?
Regardless, both teams are to blame. Both sides were fighting so viciously that no one could break them up. It takes two to cause that much commotion. During our game on Saturday night, the refs did a wise thing early. There was some shoving going on between our two teams, and the ref had an on-the-field "conference" with Corey Webster and two captains from Ole Miss. At the end, the players shook hands--as if agreeing to "play fair." Refs need to do more of that before some of these sorts of things get out of hand. And I was thinking the same thing about South Carolina costing the SEC bowl revenue because of their stupidity. Then I rationalized that they'd embarrass the SEC anyway by getting their clocks cleaned by whomever they played...so perhaps it's better they don't go.
If someone did something really stupid and cost your business $100,000 you would be screaming for their head. Big time college football is a business, just ask Skip. The stupidity shown by USC hurt every other SEC athletic dept especially those that don't bring in big revenue(Vandy, Kent, Ole Siss). I don't think USC should have to pay each school for the money lost but they should not receive a payout from the other schools bowl games either. Hate to say it but it is you that sounds like a Democrat thinking that others should pay the price for someone elses mistake. :dis: :dis: :dis: :dis: :dis: :dis:
