Knock, Knock!

Wait, Pete is talking.

listening to Herbstreit and Carroll. this was an isolated incident that nobody knew anything about. However, the report says ‘an assistant coach’ knew about it. I wonder if that was Kiffin?? Wowsers!!!

I think the point is it’s super easy to create an environment where these ‘isolated’ incidents occur and you still have plausible deniability.

What’s hard is creating an environment where it’s not easy to have them occur.

Reading over this again, Bush sounds like a twat. And not a bright one.

Wait didn’t espn have a reporter stationed at USC during the entire 04 and 05 seasons? So I’m assuming she’s the one who broke this whole thing wide open. If not she’s either the worst journalist ever, or willingly ignorant. But I repeat myself.

“At least by January 8, 2006, the assistant football coach had knowledge that student-athlete 1 and agency partners A and B likely were engaged in NCAA violations. At 1:34 a.m. he had a telephone conversation for two minutes and 23 seconds with agency partner A during which agency partner A attempted to get the assistant football coach to convince student-athlete 1 either to adhere to the agency agreement or reimburse agency partners A and B for money provided to student-athlete 1 and his family. Further, during his September 19, 2006, and February 15, 2008, interviews with the enforcement staff, the assistant football coach violated NCAA ethical conduct legislation by providing false and misleading information regarding his knowledge of this telephone call and the NCAA violations associated with it.”

Don’t listen to the media (read Herbstreit) who make it sound like a whole team is being punished for the actions of 1. The truth is that a coach A) knew about it and B) lied about it under oath.

Anyone think that maybe the NCAA came down extra hard on USC so that if and when USC appeals, they can lighten up a little while still seeming stern? Like, reduce the lost scholarships to 15 or 20, reduce the bowl ban by a year, etc…

Everything is a negotiating position.

I don’t see why USC should have been punished more harshly than OU was.

I enjoyed that and sent me scrambling for my Homer.

@bigduke

That’s what I’m talking about. Why USC? Why now? Has the NCAA changed agenda? Did a particularly ornery investigator get hold of it?

Or was it simply Bush’s greed that brought actual law people into the equation?

Haha fuck you Lane Kippen! (Hopefully his hot wife leaves him so we can all get a shot at that sweet blonde ass…)

For OU when the smoking guns surfaced… (big red) they came out with it and admitted it. Looks like here that USC never admitted to any wrong-doing. THAT was their undoing. Kind of like Martha Stewart and others… its the cover-up and the lying about the coverup that took this from OU level sanctions to this level.

Yes, you are likely to get a shot at Layla. Blogs are fun.

It’s the lying, stonewalling, and general arrogance that pissed off the investigators. Nobody came clean except the creeps that paid him the money. Everyone else knew about it and nobody told the truth.

Pete’s pretty good with the teleprompter. Wonder who wrote it?

Sailor, I heard the passing of Miles Brand provides the answer to your “why USC, why now?” question. He didn’t give one post season ban in his tenure and didn’t believe in that punishment. I haven’t read or heard this but I’d imagine he wasn’t for taking a lot of schollies away either then.

Who is next on the NCAA’s list to look at……UCONN maybe?

Why USC? Maybe the NCAA feels it needs to show a reason to be, in light of a possible football schools breakaway. Or maybe, they’re trying to let the football schools know that they must still be reckoned with. The NCAA controls the basketball money, so it will be interesting to see if they are as tough there.

“Anyone think that maybe the NCAA came down extra hard on USC so that if and when USC appeals, they can lighten up a little while still seeming stern? Like, reduce the lost scholarships to 15 or 20, reduce the bowl ban by a year, etc…”

I don’t think so. The reports claim they came close to handing out a tv ban. This way when USC appeals they can just say you’re lucky you did not get the punishment we thought about giving you.

Pete Carroll was trying mightily to keep from smirking in that “press conference”. The message I got from that was “hee hee, did I just dodge a cannonball, or what?”

TaylorTRoom- I also wonder if this in the long run has something to do with basketball and specifically Calipari. Perhaps it’s gotten so bad that they just couldn’t look away anymore and are trying to send schools the message that the shenanigans in college bball must stop.

Joe Schad reporting that USC juniors and seniors are free to transfer without penalty and other schools can initiate contact. This may not be a death penalty but it’s close.

I think most stay.

You think the upperclassmen that are second or third string won’t transfer for instant playing time?

Especially after the coach that recruited them slipped out the backdoor.

Is anyone else amazed about Reggie Bush going to the federales about being shaken down?

Doesn’t he have a lawyer advising him???

Shit gets real when Suge Knight is shaking you down.

http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/agent-suge-knight-part-of-reggie-bush-dispute-28508

How long do you think it will take for USC to give up the goods on other schools for recruiting shenanigans? I’m guessing soon.