Pointless fits the NCAA to a T. About all they're good for is to make up more stupid rules in the offseason.
Why anyone takes the NCAA seriously any more is beyond me. Same goes for Roger Godell.The AD over there made some comment along the lines of "it's just paper. Everyone saw the games." Man, this came across really arrogant to me, and makes the NCAA look like a joke, and tells me that Ole Miss still doesn't take compliance seriously. Two thoughts about that: one is, why should anyone take compliance seriously? UNC basketball got off scott free, Ole Miss got hammered decent, then the NCAA gave them some of it back. Missouri got hit pretty hard for tutor-gate week before last, and they paid pretty close attention to the NCAA requests. Auburn got away with murder for Cam Newton, though no bodies were found.
Second thought is that I don't feel there would be any retribution for Alabama had our school done HALF of what Ole Miss or Missouri or UNC did. If we had been embroiled in questions the way Auburn was over Cam Newton, I feel certain we would have been on multi-year bowl ban.
And let's not even touch what Penn State went through, the penalties they were originally dealt, and how the NCAA walked back much of that too.
My seven year old son got a kick out of this.As you wish... :biggrin:
As a Rebel fan told me, the wins may be vacated, but you can't unbeat that (euphemism for posterior).
I think it was in the mid 1990s and I believe the idea was that the other team shouldn’t “benefit” by getting a win that way. Losses are rarely vacated except for post-season losses, especially in tournaments like in basketball. The entire participation, wins and losses, gets vacated.
One of the few things that the NCAA got right. You cannot reverse a win or loss on the field. One team earned the win, the other did not. Vacating wins goes too far, IMO, but giving a team a win in a game which they lost is absurd.
:conf3: There were those who would miss too many days just so they could get three more days off. Go figure.
