Your perfect storm script/timeline for the Bears???????
Just curious how you all hope to see this play out? Not the penalties alone, but the likely twists and turns of the case and its completion. What benefits us the most?
Mine:
April response in writing. Spin and more spin that their self-imposed sanctions are sufficient.
Delay the June hearing. Allows us and the rest of the conference to keep another summer?s worth of recruiting under a cloud of doubt.
Hearing in August. More spine but the misguided enthusiasm for a new season and ?worth it all? run at an SEC title deflects the Bear faithful?s angst.
Tactical point to the Bears here. I would be surprised if the NCAA took out a coach during the actual season. They either delay the show cause for multiple staff members or they delay the findings until after the Egg Bowl.
Either is fine by me because in either case their recruiting is going to tank. That dark cloud only gets darker the longer this goes on. Not to mention every competitor?s staff is pointing at it when meeting with recruits.
UNM has a solid season in terms of wins and losses barring some huge internal breakdown like we experienced in Jackie?s last years. They play well enough to win 6-8 games. Not sure if they pull them all off but at least early they win what they are supposed to.
Rumors begin that the 3rd NOA is going to be real. (and I remain skeptical the NCAA is going to pursue this beyond what they are doing. Not sure they would drop a third)
UNM cannot delay the ruling on the fist hearing.
There are some shitty Thanksgiving gatherings in the state.
December hits and right before early signing the first bomb drops.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of self-imposed PLUS enough to get them north of USC penalties. Another year added to no Bowl fun. 4-6 years of probation. Coaches and others depart or are SC?d.
First wave of Bear rage and panic attacks hit like nothing ever seen.
More substantiated rumors the investigation has another shoe to drop.
Many MSU fans have drinks tossed on them at in-state office holiday parties.
Difficulty hiring a coach willing to deal with both probation as announced and uncertainty of what may come next. A solid citizen type is drastically overpaid and given a ridiculous amount of contractual security to take the job.
The staff who remains and were not implicated head for the exits. Remember when Jackie started hiring Hallman and Cooper? Same ol? song
Recruiting haul is of borderline talented legacies/loyalists and likely sign and place. Toss in a couple of head cases.
(We try to screw it up but pick up 3-5 in-state players we would have lost. )
Next NOA drops. Hopefully it will take a full year to play out with their recruiting still flopping about on the floor. Maybe another 3-5 scholarships put at risk. However, the cloud of being threatened by the NCAA and a fictitious DP/SEC expulsion does not get them in many sympathetic doors. More HS underclassman begin to view them as the last choice.
UNM becomes the football equivalent of Kansas for about 10-12 years.
We keep trying to screw this chance up.
Hopefully one of those 3-5 extra players we have a chance with can kick a damn field goal beyond 25-30 yards.
