Posted on 06/10/2010 7:18:27 AM PDT by commish
The USC football program will receive a two-year postseason ban, a reduction in scholarships and a forfeiture of wins from at least the 2004 season when the NCAA releases its sanctions on Thursday, a source told ESPN's Shelley Smith.
The Los Angeles Times reported the NCAA sanctions include the loss of more than 20 scholarships.
ESPN The Magazine's Bruce Feldman confirmed the two-year postseason ban and a reduction in scholarships from a second USC source.
USC will respond Thursday to the NCAA's findings following its investigation into possible violations by the Trojans' football and men's basketball programs, a source told ESPN's Joe Schad.
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Lukewarm punishment IMHO.
LOL!!!
The ncaa investigated USC for almost 5 years, and all they got was ONE family of ONE athlete got illegal benefits, and that athlete may (it’s disputed) have gotten benefits, too. The benefits did not come from any booster, or anyone connected with the university. The only one who said the university knew, is a convicted perjurer, who fingered one assistant coach, who denies all this.
Oh yes, there was the football player who drove his girlfriend’s car, where the car was financed by her employer who is not an agent or a “booster”.
What a farce. USC’s real sin was winning.
What UConn did was arguably worse than USC’s violations.
They can’t get invited to a bowl game for the duration of the sanctions.
was = is
LOL.
Who would get the title instead?
“Not good for college football. Big loss of TV revenue. Everybody is going to feel it in their pockets.”
Are you kidding? USC is a big time program, yes, but if they got the death penalty, college football wouldn’t even notice. When USC sucked before Carroll got there, sort of a self imposed probation, college football did just fine.
College football is bigger than any individual program.
No bowl appearances anywhere....
If I remember correctly, this is exactly what happened when SMU was hit with some serious sanctions about 20+ years back.
Hired Kiffin just in time! Man, Tennessee is lucky Kiffin left and saved them from their biggest hiring mistake in decades!
Thanks you two....
SMU was paying their players. They got punished then kept on paying them. Gov. Clements said at the time “we have to honor our commitments to these players”.
It means that any game after the regular season is now off limits to the program.
And when you consider that the Rose Bowl, or any other BCS Bowl, are the main post season games in which USC appears, with a 17 million dollar payout, it can be a substantial shot to the school's budget.
Additionally, if the PAC-10 expands to 16 teams with a conference championship game, that would likely be an additional double digit millions they would be forbidden to take part in, even if they had the best conference record.
So a "post season ban" could wind up costing USC between 17-35 million bucks and severely hamper their recruiting activities since high school kids like to envision themselves sitting on the bench in their freshman year of college mouthing the words "Hi Mom" on national TV.
hahahaha....
I hope Tennessee wins it all this year just to rub it in his face.
But to be fair, I know this happens at many schools - part time jobs where no one is showing up - cars, perks...
I concur. I believe that the harsh penalty is to crush the west coast’s ascendancy in football and save the big east conference. East Coast bias anyone?
Lane Kiffin had nothing to do with it, and yet no one deserves it more...
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