I'm not going to debate the fact that he did something wrong or not, but I sure as hell will agree with the attitude and stance quoted above. You can't have it both ways, period! You can't be a part time man. Nope, sorry, it's all or nothing. You wanna play big boy games, you'll deal with the big boy consequences.
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The SEC will get dinged, but you cannot hinge an entire conference's reputation on one player. If that was the case, Alabama would have crushed the conference when they bought Albert Means & nearly suffered the death penalty.
I agree, it will hurt, and what's sad is that I think most of the people who aren't SEC people, who get to vote on rankings are sick of the SEC kicking every other conferences ass.