Quote Originally Posted by sandwolf View Post
They definitely aren't going to apply penalties from the matrix for each individual violation.....like you said, that doesn't work. But if you look at OM's response to the NOA in the third paragraph at the bottom of the first page, you will see this statement:



So based on that, the case as a whole is assigned a classification, and then you go to the matrix to find the appropriate penalties. So for a Level I - Aggravated case, a football program can be hit with 21-42 lost scholarships, 2-4 year bowl ban, 6-10 years of probation, etc.....those are the worst sanctions that can be issued based on the penalty matrix, and while those sanctions are really bad and would cripple a program for a long time, they are definitely enforceable.

And before anybody says that they didn't approach the matrix correctly, their response wasn't put together by some water carrying asshole from OM.....it was put together by Lightfoot, Franklin & White which is a premier firm in NCAA Compliance cases and represents programs from all over the country, so it is pretty safe to assume that they took the right approach.
I don't doubt they took the right approach in the defense, but they took the wrong approach to their football program which is going to get them hammered. There are no mitigating factor and when they hung their entire case on "Leo lied" only to be--allegedly--duped with a video showing proof, it's really a bad look. Littlefoot, Frankie and the Whites were probably pretty embarrassed if things went down the way they were rumored to have gone down.