Dang, that's pretty steep for such a small monetary amount. I didn't know that, and thanks for the answer to my question.....After I submitted the post I laughed at myself thinking it was too busy and the question may get lost by the time people finished reading it.
Everybody has a spin and an excuse. Everybody has a "rational" excuse for their institutions name showing up on this list. Bottom line is if you're on the list you're on the list. Passage of time means nothing. The names remain and if you're on it you've cheated. The number of times doesn't much matter after you've been caught once. "I've only cheated twice. You cheated four times. You're 'badder' than I am.":thumb:
Its not that cut and dry really... look at it like this... lets say I make an honest mistake, which is a violation of NCAA rules. I own up to it and I'm given some penalty. Is that as bad as a team that openly ignores the rules in an attempt to garner an "edge" in some way over his fellow conference teams?
When boosters become involved, it becomes even grayer. Did the school know, or didn't it know? Should it have known? Etc. I just posted them to be interesting. There's no spin, no explanations given. Those are just plain numbers.
I could see that once (in Vandy's case) but after the first "honest mistake" I believe the responsibility falls upon the institution to educate their personnel more about the rules so no more "honest" mistakes are made. That is if the institution truly has pure intentions about how their program is run. But I've heard the "I didn't know that was a violation" so many times that it makes puke. Lou Holtz comes to mind. I used to respect the man but after learning about the other side of his coaching history I no longer have as much respect for Lou. There are teams on that list (Bama included) that have used up their "honest mistakes" credit limit. College football as a whole is corrupt. The things that go on "behind the scenes" and "under the table" is unbelievable. Look at USC and McKnight. That kid WAS going to LSU. He wasn't lying when he said if NSD would have been a day earlier he was going to LSU. I wonder what changed his mind? :dis:
No offense- I know you are posting what has been said but I don't buy that. In fact, quite contrary to that, I believe his mind has been made up and that he put off the announcement as long as possible to put off the possibility of having to face our fans everyday and be questioned.
Im sorry, I know he was a lock on USC but Petey got caught on that one. The way McKnight said it cannot in anyway be interpreted otherwise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOtZ-o7GfUI
A couple of weeks ago, a USC fan I know forwarded McKnight's myspace page to me. His background looked like a shrine to USC.
Didn't he say if NSD was the day before he would have signed with LSU? I thought (could be wrong) that he did say that. Didn't he also say he wanted to stay close enough to watch his brother play? Or am I confusing him with someone else. I think the Bush, McKnight, Curtis, Carroll conference call that never happened is a tiny glimpse into much more. But again we'll never know for sure unless an NCAA investigation is done and they aren't going to break their backs to try and find too much.....
