Need to check your facts Mr. Chips. Yes, USC with 15 is near the top but SMU is the leader with 17. And the War Eagle Tiger Plainsmen of Auburn are near the top with 11 seasons of probation. There are number of schools with the 10 seasons on probation, the same as Bama.
And you are proud of those 10, are you? I grant you Auburn has 11. But maybe you should get another one for poisoning their trees. How classy. And let’s not forget that Alabama came within a whisker of receiving the death penalty . . . was it in 2002? As a perennial powerhouse, Alabama should be setting the standard in every way. But history says otherwise. Major NCAA trouble and multi-year probations in 1993, 2002, 2012, and all those “minor infractions” reported in 2017, not to mention Alabama’s dubious distinction as the king of gray-shirting, all speak to an ongoing culture of corruption.