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[Jack Lambert]

Everyone keeps saying that the NCAA will NEVER give out the death penalty. First, they are still handing out death penalties in other sports and on lower levels of football. But secondly, when compared to SMU and other cases such as Texas State OM has run laps around their cheating. Neither of them included academic fraud to go along with their inducements. If there were EVER a time for the NCAA to flex and throw a death penalty this is it. I know that there is less than a 5% that we will see this but to say there is no chance is not correct either. The NCAA has been challenged in front of the entire nation to protect the image of amateur athletics with academic credibility and it's their turn. Tunsil may have just forced the NCAAs hand.

If you don't think it's that bad consider this Texas and Alabama have had to fire coaches because of the OM scandal. The NCAA may determine that it is just safer to burn their whole department down before the plague spreads. Because if they hit OM with a slap on the wrist the plague will spread and there will be nothing the NCAA can do to contain it.

They might not ever say you can play football for a few years but they can make the penalties so harsh they can't win.

[Reason2succeed]

Tusk, there is no official news linking Bo Davis' resignation to OM and with Saban's regime there probably never will be. The link is the players. The players that Bo Davis recruited were also being recruited by OM. Also, I am considering the awkward timeline of his resignation coinciding with OM's investigation and their impending release of the NOA. Yes it is still speculation but it is speculation with a lot of arrows pointing back at OM.

[Ifyouonlyknew]

Tusk, there is no official news linking Bo Davis' resignation to OM and with Saban's regime there probably never will be. The link is the players. The players that Bo Davis recruited were also being recruited by OM. Also, I am considering the awkward timeline of his resignation coinciding with OM's investigation and their impending release of the NOA. Yes it is still speculation but it is speculation with a lot of arrows pointing back at OM.

Word is it was Dabo & Clemson not OM or MSU.

[BrunswickDawg]

Word is it was Dabo & Clemson not OM or MSU.

One post I read from a Bama friend said Dabo reported it to Saban and Saban asked Davis. Davis denied, but Saban had proof of some kind from Dabo. This was Saban cutting it off before the NCAA started snooping. It's how you handle a potential public fiasco like an adult - not like a 4 year old throwing a tantrum and blaming the broken vase on the dog, a ghost, and your little brother.

[Corn Bread]

Isn't he the guy who couldn't read? How could he get through Juco being illiterate? For that matter, how'd he ever get out of high school?

You are correct that he could not read. Received a participation certificate from high school in Wayesboro. I think he spent a year or two at Hargrove-I think. Upon arriving at TSUN his mom stated, "just cause my son can't read does not mean he can't play football". I have a friend in Waynesboro who knew Powe and said he was to stupid to hang off the back of a garbage truck. But he played ball at TSUN.

[BulldogBear]

One post I read from a Bama friend said Dabo reported it to Saban and Saban asked Davis. Davis denied, but Saban had proof of some kind from Dabo. This was Saban cutting it off before the NCAA started snooping. It's how you handle a potential public fiasco like an adult - not like a 4 year old throwing a tantrum and blaming the broken vase on the dog, a ghost, and your little brother.

Good post!

[bamadog]

I come in peace.... Yes the story I have heard from a good source is that it was Dabo that called Nick directly.