The fact of the matter is that UNC was good enough to be a NC contender with all those defensive players and with the way Yates progressed on offense. They should have beaten LSU on opening weekend, but lost because LSU killed them on specials, which was raided to try and find a serviceable defensive unit with all of the holdouts. College football is a joke, especially for the “real” schools…

Except that if the NCAA finds a major violation in 2008 or 2009 (and Oregon has already admitted to violations in those years), the NCAA HAS NO CHOICE but to slap them with repeat offender status and hammer them.

NCAA won’t label them as MAJOR violations. They’ll get probation. NCAA works for the Universities –> Nike pays many of the Universities a TON of money –> Nike owns Oregon –> Oregon gets off with a warning.

/Roy sycophants blowing each other in the dean dome

I won’t miss another trip to Charlotte or Shreveport

Charlotte I can understand, but Shreveport? They got casinos in Bossier City that attract people from all across northeast Texas!

But, you could argue osu is in a better position going forward

i would make that argument.

This coming from a football school guy.

Get informed and realize it’s more than basketball.

The day I tout Auburn’s swimming program is the day I hang up my cleats.

granted, it still sucks that it was all over some tattoos…nothing with any legitimate monetary value. and the stuff the players traded were their personal possessions.

If tress just tells the NCAA (or the idiot lawer doesn’t email the senators school email account) none of this happens. But, you could argue osu is in a better position going forward

This coming from a football school guy.

Get informed and realize it’s more than basketball.

Great so we have sponsored comments now too.

If there’s one thing I know about college sports, it’s that coaches across the country love using the Capital One Cup as motivation for their teams.

It’s all I follow besides this blog.

This coming from a football school guy.

Get informed and realize it’s more than basketball.

If there’s one thing I know about college sports, it’s that coaches across the country love using the Capital One Cup as motivation for their teams.

I love how giddy you are about Oregon potentially getting hammerfucked.

ball peen’d.

granted, it still sucks that it was all over some tattoos…nothing with any legitimate monetary value. and the stuff the players traded were their personal possessions.

Except that if the NCAA finds a major violation in 2008 or 2009 (and Oregon has already admitted to violations in those years), the NCAA HAS NO CHOICE but to slap them with repeat offender status and hammer them.

I love how giddy you are about Oregon potentially getting hammerfucked.

Oregon’s violations were probably similar, but they won’t get hit as hard. The NCAA doesn’t want to screw with Nike.

Except that if the NCAA finds a major violation in 2008 or 2009 (and Oregon has already admitted to violations in those years), the NCAA HAS NO CHOICE but to slap them with repeat offender status and hammer them.

This coming from a football school guy.

Get informed and realize it’s more than basketball.

Osu came out of it pretty easy if you ask me.

mmo gets it.

When’s Miami getting jail sexed?

My guess is right before the season starts. Should be about the same as OSU and UNC got. Key thing for Miami is that they cooperated with NCAA from the start, no obstruction from its staff.

So long as they beat Duke in basketball, I don’t think Tar Heel Nation really cares too much about this.

They do care, this really tarnished their reputation, doesn’t matter if it didn’t happen in basketball.

For the umpteenth time, when your head coach lies to the NCAA repeatedly and your AD does a sham investigation you get punished for hubris and stupidity.

Point 1- Yes.
Point 2- when notified by a person (responding to a public records request) that Tressel knew about the tats for merch, the AD self-reports to the NCAA and his investigation found that that was the extent of the problem. Dohrmann’s hachet job comes out and a new investigation reveals no wrongdoing. Then, Terrelle Pryor (Bust!) opens his yap about a summer job during NCAA questions about the first investigation. OSU investigates and suspends more players and self-reports to the NCAA.

In sum, Gene Smith is a moron who couldn’t get out of his own way who is lucky that Urab Meyer fell into his lap. Trying to keep Tressel was stupid, not getting in front of everything was stupid, but his investigation weren’t of the Keystone Cops variety.

OSU still got hosed

No. No they didn’t.