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

Chukker Veteran said:
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."
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They're not accepting anything. A&M proposed the suspension. The NCAA says he shouldn't have been suspended.
 
rgw said:
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.
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Are the Birmingham lawyers that represented the Barn and aTm graduates of Law School at Alabama? Apparently, wherever they graduated from, they did a good job in representing their clients.
 
Finebaum's guest Christine Brennan just said the quote of the year. She said "The NCAA is in charge of something that no longer exists."

I was trying to think of a way to describe their current iteration, and that is exactly what they are.
 
I heard something on the radio yesterday from Finebaum, that sort of hit me funny. A caller asked when did this lawyering up and fighting the NCAA begin. Finebaum sort of pointed out that the first boutique law firm that assisted University's with NCAA trouble was headed up by none other than one Mike Slive. Wanna know why agbarn and aTm got off, you can look straight at the SEC Commish himself. At least that's how I see it. I have no doubt that the home office has assisted the schools in getting away with cheating.
 
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