Louisiana-Lafayette hit with NCAA penalties, to vacate 22 football wins

Ben Gooding · March 9, 2016

Obviously

UNT90 · March 9, 2016

20 hours ago, Ben Gooding said:

I agree. It's infuriating. They make quick and fair decisions when the public thumb is on top of them, see Sandusky & Penn St. They use to make decisions such as this no matter the issue and regardless of who the program or university was, see USC in the early 00's as well as Bama in the late 90's for prime examples. Now, those kind o crimes will virtually go unpunished, example see Miami football team and their current "consequences" for allowing a booster and a well known cheating one to pimp out their players to prostitutes, coke, yachts, etc. See the current UNC debacle, nada. See Auburn keeping a BS program in store when knowingly knowing that athletes are the ONLY ones participating, nada. See the Ole Miss circus, nada. Small town Ole Miss/Oxford press tried to push the agenda that these violations were NOT during the Freeze era when it is now coming to light that the vast majority of the violations were in fact during the Freeze era. See the Louisville situation currently going on, "self ban" joke. See every perrenial top 25 program in the country and the character of players they consistently give "second (but really 3rd, 4th, and 5th) chances." See the academic "help" these guys are receiving at these perrenial top 25 programs. The NCAA has 2 choices, actually govern the entire NCAA as it should be governed OR allow the 30 or so programs to break completely away to pay their players and gtfo of real college football. Teetering on this middle ground is diluting the college football landscape and is dragging about 30 of the P5 programs through the mud and the majority of the G5. It's an absolute joke. How or why the G5 has not stepped in and even TRIED to flex their muscles just goes to show that they are settling with scraps being thrown their way when in reality they could flex up and force real decisions. In other words, the college model and college experience for fans and players alike is being watered down and slowly killed off and it kind of pisses me off.

Pedo St. was a fair decision?! Fair to Pedo St. A terrible injustice to the victims of Sandusky and doing the right thing.

Pedo St. suffered no long term effects from the "penalties," which were quickly rescinded once public attention had moved on to something else. Do you think the 14 year olds that were ass raped were able to move on as quickly?

Please don't use the best example of NCAA lack of institutional control to defend the NCAA.

Please.

GrandGreen · March 9, 2016

It is amazing how many out of control assistants are hired and how the AD and HC's are completely unaware of their activities. I have no idea of what actually happened at ULL, but in most cases I suspect coaches like this are hired to do exactly what they are caught doing. With part of the deal, not directly involving the hc and taking the fall when caught.

Ben Gooding · March 9, 2016

2 hours ago, UNT90 said:

Pedo St. was a fair decision?! Fair to Pedo St. A terrible injustice to the victims of Sandusky and doing the right thing.

Pedo St. suffered no long term effects from the "penalties," which were quickly rescinded once public attention had moved on to something else. Do you think the 14 year olds that were ass raped were able to move on as quickly?

Please don't use the best example of NCAA lack of institutional control to defend the NCAA.

Please.

Point is, a decision was quick and just for the most part. Granted the NCAA just have never backed off and eased the vise grips like they did. But one of their money makers (Big10) was a dilapidated conference and they had to do their part in trying to make them competitive again through whatever means necessary.

Oh, and I am not defending the NCAA, ever.