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Originally Posted by wreckingcrew
Duke? For what?
And as far as this ruling, its disgustingly weak.
In my opinion, the NCAA has shown a trend from the late 80's to the present of preaching fairness and equity while acting in an inconsistent manner that only serves to protect institutions that are their cash cows. A&M had the exact same charges in the mid 90's, players working a summer job for a booster recieving payment for work not performed, and we were slapped with a year TV ban, one year post season ban and lost scholarships. We were a top 10 team going into that season, ripped off a 10-0-1 record and because of sanctions lost a run for the MNC. OU 'vacates' wins from the prior season and loses 2 scholarships, hardly equitable.
Its the EXACT same as the brouhaha over Native American mascots and nicknames. The NCAA allows Florida State to remain eligible to host playoff events with their mascot and logo, while the University of North Dakota, which has a more direct tie to Native American students, a higher NA student enrollment and more of a committment to NA education, including a Department of Indian Studies is involved in legal entanglements.
The NCAA is a joke of an organization that only seeks to keep money flowing into the coffers of its 'big name' programs and this joke of a penalty is further evidence of that.
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I don't remember that happening to A&M in the mid 90's, but you seem to have forgotten about the quite serious NCAA violations that the A&M football program itself committed during the late 80's. Obviously the punishment laid down in the 90's was a direct result of them already being in trouble a few years earlier. Here's the direct link to the official report from the NCAA:
https://goomer.ncaa.org/wdbctx/lsdbi...ed&p_Division=
I didn't read all of it, but I definitely skimmed over the part about A&M assistant coaches giving and offering inducements to prospective student-athletes, lying to them about alleged NCAA viloations, etc. etc.
Bob Stoops was brought into OU to clean up that program and return it to a national power. He has done both, and he has done it with quite a bit of integrity. The guy turned in his own program to the NCAA and kicked off three players when it wasn't necessary to do so. He could have easily kept them on the team and waited for an NCAA investigation to decide their fate. I would be willing to be that if he had done that, OU would have gotten severe penalites. For you to call their punishment "disgustingly weak", given the circumstances, is ridiculous.
.............and this is coming from a Texas student.