Today's the day... What will the NCAA do to USC

[rgw]

I think that USC is going to get roughed up pretty good by the NCAA for this issue. I think the damning point for USC is that both the football and basketball programs were involved in sizable illegal benefits schemes. It shows a history of gross mismanagement and lack of institutional control by the athletic department as a whole.

The question is who gets slammed harder. I think USC tried to make their b-ball program the sacrificial lamb to keep the worst from the football program. I guess we'll see if they succeeded.

 

[bayoutider]

What the NCAA owes Alabama is a published public apology not something lost on page 3 of the sports section but something like a 1 hour special in prime time confessing the irregularity of our sanctions. Too many careers were ruined for the NCAA to get off scott free.

 

[ecra-joe]

i think with the articles coming out, about all the info they have on usc, they get a post season ban and pretty strong scholarship reductions. how long or how much i dont know but i think they get hit somewhat hard. that being said, i dont think anything changes at usc. especially with kiffin there. why hire that guy when you know youre about to be in trouble with the ncaa? does anyone know what happens when youre on big boy probabtion and you keep committing secondary violations?

 

[Honden]

i think with the articles coming out, about all the info they have on usc, they get a post season ban and pretty strong scholarship reductions. how long or how much i dont know but i think they get hit somewhat hard. that being said, i dont think anything changes at usc. especially with kiffin there. why hire that guy when you know youre about to be in trouble with the ncaa? does anyone know what happens when youre on big boy probabtion and you keep committing secondary violations?

Good question. What were they thinking? That the NCAA is going to look the other way? Kiffin seems to be a walking violation. he just cannot seem to help himself. I HAVE noticed that he seems to be doing a better job of keeping his yap shut recently. It's not like USC needs any more attention than they have already garnered.

 

[jangalang]

I think USC will get some serious sanctions, maybe not serious as Alabama sanctions but more serious than we have seen from the NCAA in a while. They will make FSU say thank you. The NCAA has stuck with this case for several years. USC I think felt they were ok when nothing kept happening. Then the Basketball thing happened and they self imposed basketball sanctions which the NCAA has not accepted thinking that would be it. Then McKnight rolled up in his mama baby ride that he wasnt driving. McKnight left for the NFL, Pete Carrol has left for the NFL, the PAC 10 is looking to expand their conference. Reggie Bush's stuff has been made public and it's enough to make mascara run from a USC cheerleader's eyes. A lot of you guys think it will be nothing more than a wrist slap. I think it will be more than a wrist slap.

Spot on, BT.

I think that of the biggest give away to what's going to happen is how quick Pete jumped ship. Also, his team did so bad this year, it's likely that he was already talking with Seattle (which took away from USC) throughout the season knowing what would happen...hence, the bad year. Sure they had injuries and a frosh qb, but they have so much talent that only a coach not putting enough effort would lose that many games.

 

[eric1978]

We all wish the NCAA would penalize equally and use established precedent as guidelines,but I'll have to see it to believe it.USC reeks of LOIC.