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Johnny Manziel investigated by NCAA (will miss first half vs Rice)

So, Johnny is suspended for a half-game in a game where he was only going to play a half anyway?

To get more cynical, having him play the second half insures more people will watch this blow out longer because they want to see Johnny play. The suspension is a win-win for college football's money-makers.
 
Cow colleges must think alike. This reminds me of when Pat Dye 'suspended' QB Jeff Burger in the late '80's for one SERIES in the barn's opener one year.
 
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Re: Johnny Manziel investigated by NCAA (expected to start against Rice)

Aggies won't even need him for the second half. There'll be up by at least 4 TDs and at that point J. Paycheck won't be needed.

All you can do is roll your eyes (:rolleyes:), say "but of course", and simply anticipate Alabama doing the job the NCAA won't do and that is to punish Johnny Paycheck.
 
The NCAA said the suspension wasn't necessary. A&M gave the suspension, and the NCAA accepted it.

That makes this even more laughable.
 
Chukker Veteran said:
You can't use logic in understanding what the NCAA does.My best guess is that Mark Emmert decided he didn't want to deprive his buddy Saban of the chance to teach Johnny a lesson, and this was the easiest way he could come up with to get there.
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I suspect that that looney bin, known as ITAT, is blaming this on us.Having little contact with the real world, while traveling this past week, allowed me to forget all about this little schnook. It was nice!
 
am i the only one thats happy to know that Johnny signature will be playing on the 14th?

I was going to be extremely upset if he wasnt playing against us. Everyone would have said thats the only reason we beat them.

Now, we can make him cry like Tebow....
 
Jon said:
I just read that and came to post it here. I wonder who else is on that list? Not sure we all want to know
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Since it goes back to 2004, I would guess the list contains Vince Young, Reggie Bush, and a lot of players from USC, Florida, and Texas. It may contain some Bama guys, but I have my doubts. Our players haven't had a lot of star power. Colt McCoy's autograph would have been worth more than Mark Ingram ... I think.
 
Someone called in to finebaum yesterday and said the same thing. Allegedly, AJ has signed about 400 items, and many more sec players have signed things for this same broker.
 
This all was a finely tuned play by these autograph brokers. They were upset that Manziel was signing so much memorabilia, thus driving down the value of their stuff. Why else would they out Manziel to guys like Joe Schad, while admitting to Schad that they would not talk to the NCAA about any of this stuff? They needed the NCAA, or ATM, to step in and tell Manziel to stop the mass signings. And, that's exactly what they got. Manziel gets to play, increasing his profile even further, and the brokers get to up the price on their now even more limited editions of authenticated "Johnny Football" memorabilia....
 
MightyWingman said:
Just read this and it kind of makes sense...

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/08...d-ncaas-world-upside-down/#.Uh6cFLvEOTU.email

Basically says that Manziel has a list of other players from the NCAA dating back to 2004 that have done the same thing that he did. I'd quote the entire article, but am not sure if I'm allowed to or not.
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Well, this just further shows how the NCAA has no backbone. So they allegedly discover that a laundry list of players broke the rules over a period of years and years. Instead of doing the right thing and holding those players accountable, they compromise to save face. Really speaks to what is wrong with our country and world in general. We sacrifice right for what is convenient or "practical" and the flood gates open even further. I shouldn't be surprised.
 
Tradition4ever said:
This all was a finely tuned play by these autograph brokers. They were upset that Manziel was signing so much memorabilia, thus driving down the value of their stuff. Why else would they out Manziel to guys like Joe Schad, while admitting to Schad that they would not talk to the NCAA about any of this stuff? They needed the NCAA, or ATM, to step in and tell Manziel to stop the mass signings. And, that's exactly what they got. Manziel gets to play, increasing his profile even further, and the brokers get to up the price on their now even more limited editions of authenticated "Johnny Football" memorabilia....
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Follow the money trail............

Yep, all makes sense now.
 
Yesterday's punishment was an insult to everyone's intelligence. That one-half suspension has the feel of a 1-dollar exchange to bind some contractual relationship. It was the payment to the NCAA to make everything go away. NCAA makes recommendation, TAMU executes recommendation with their "$1" and Manziel gets to play practically the whole season. If anyone believes that Manziel was innocent then they are the blindest of homers. Nobody thinks this is actually a punishment.

It is such an insult because you don't even have to go back far at all to find cases where players for Alabama and other teams got far more punishment for far less transgression. Nobody is lining 4000 or more items without payment and that is enough for the NCAA almost every time. At a minimum, Manziel deserved at least the 6-game suspension Alabama players got for exploiting a bad book voucher system to make small money for "renting" additional books to friends or even letting their friends just borrow them outright. This would fall in line with Pryor and other Ohio State players who got similar punishment for the memorabilia-for-tattoos exchange before it was uncovered that Ohio State was covering up knowledge prior to the reports. Then you have situations like Dez Bryant losing a whole season because he lied about doing something which was not even a violation.

As I've said before there is a pretty obvious trend with regards to significant sanctions from the NCAA:

Positive correlation with assisting in their discovery.

Negative correlation when you hire lawyers from the jump and blocking all discovery.


I hope Alabama realizes this and blocks them when they come knocking on the door. I'm done with trying to think their is honor in this system. If we screw up, lets just dust it under the rug.
 
“Due to an inadvertent violation regarding the signing of certain autographs.”
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That statement from the aggies...

The word "inadvertent"...

They seem to be rubbing the NCAA's nose in it.

Why didn't they just say:
"We'll accept a token slap on the wrist as long as we don't have to admit we were in the wrong."

RTR91 said:
They're not accepting anything. A&M proposed the suspension. The NCAA says he shouldn't have been suspended.
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Thanks for the clarification. It helps understand what happened, but doesn't make it any easier to swallow.
 
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