Nope not a Reb, just a "will believe it when I see it" kind of guy. No explanation needed.
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400 scholarships over 50 years (FIFTY!)
50 year probation
20 year bowl ban
Removed from SEC
Forced to become a member of the SWAC
Must hire Croom for at least 10 years
Forfeit all wins in program history
$1B fine
No recruiting visits for 20 years
Lifetime ban for Hugh and Bjork
The Grove has to be burned and bulldozed
Cold chicken fingers outlawed in Oxford
This seems like a good start... (**)
I still like the idea (apologies, can't remember who originally posted it) of giving the OM fanbase a choice: 1.) 40 over 4, 3 year bowl ban, Freeze and Bjork gone; or 2.) NCAA accepts the self-imposed penalties, but the Grove is shut down for five years.
30 scholarships would not be enough. With USC getting 30 the punishment would not fit the crime. 40-50 scholarships would be justice imo and not one under 40. Once these sort of numbers start coming into play a two year death penalty should at least be discussed by the decision makers.
Mudholing about to commence.
I don't see how OM skirts the LOIC charge. They had/have 3 sports programs charged with infractions + Academic Fraud and this shit spans multiple years, multiple coaches, multiple AD's. Now add in just the stuff under Freeze, and they admittedly owned up to cheating while under investigation and that's solid proof that the Institution Lacked Control of their entire athletic department. Freeze had no system in place to monitor his own staff, active players, or the very recruiting process he put in place. So he gets slapped for FTM.
LOIC on University w/Bjork getting canned
32-36 over 4yr scholly reductions
5 yrs probation
2 yr bowl ban
50% reduction in recruiting contact and visits allowed
Show cause and FTM on Freeze
Show cause on 3-4 other coaches from Nutt's staff and Freeze's staff
Over a dozen "Boosters" disassociated
Relinquish SEC profit sharing revenue for 2 years
Completely re-vamp that clown show of a Compliance Department
I thought Ole Miss would avoid LOIC until I read the second paragraph of their response, where they admitted that the cheating continued during the course of the investigation. When a school admits to that, they are screwed.
I definitely could be talked into tempering hammer expectations if... TCUN had not been caught cheating while the investigation was ongoing and if... TCUN had not run rough-shod over keeping everything private (but instead sic'd the hounds on SA 39 & 40, and we all know they did). The ncaa will frown big time on these two caveats and viola' the new matrix is used to scare many a team going forward.
Keeping in mind the issues with Freeze go back to the Oher issue and the Powe issue (when the Waynesboro testing center was set up by Saunders and Freeze) ...and that the whole college world is watching....I am betting at least 40 scholarships over 4 , three year bowl ban, 5 year probation , 10 year show cause for Freeze, Saunders and Fararr ...5 years show cause for Kiffin and Vaughn... and regardless of what the penalties are ...they won't quit cheating.