Barking Carnival

A tip of the cap to poster 98 for the heads up. Outstandingly predictable snippets about Thayer’s Fantasy Island article on the McFarland recruitment.

Girls Romancing each other at a Texas Football party?

The Times article included inflammatory statements McFarland had written about the recruiting practices of Texas and LSU for […]

Texas Tech! Norman, Oklahoma! Does anyone have any cyanide!?

Mike Stoops! What are you doing here?
Brent!!! Ummm, nuffim.
Nuffim, eh? Why are you sitting at my desk? Watching A&M film. Eating my Red Vines
I love football!
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Venables?
Bob!
Mike?
Shouldn’t Mike be in Tucson? I want answers!
I thought you were recruiting heh heh.
I came back to grab […]

The bear hug or the face rape? Pick your favorite way to block our DE!

And how he was “Bomared” by the culture of cheating that embodies OU. Pretty interesting article here from SI.

Despite the harshness of the penalty, “I didn’t go out and rat anybody out or talk or anything like that, I just kind of moved on with my life.”
That statement — “I didn’t go […]

Years ago, on a different board, I posted a transcript of Blair Cherry’s 1951 Saturday Evening Post article “Why I Quit Coaching Football”.  Cherry had been an extremely successful HS coach in the ’30s, was Bible’s chief assistant at Texas, and had coached Texas to a 32 - 10 - 1 record from 1947 - […]

So far we’ve covered the evolution of recruiting guidelines, enforcement and violations. This may be a good time to discuss in more detail how violations are discovered, investigated, and punished. We can then examine the effectiveness of the punishments.As noted before, to have an NCAA investigation, you first need a school to violate the recruiting […]

Except when they do.
The naive among us continue to believe that NCAA penalties will prevent college football programs from cheating. The cynical believe that the penalties handed out by the NCAA are nothing more than a slap on the wrist (and an effete one at that). I lean to the cynical side, but I’ve […]

I have a feeling this one won’t satisfy many.  The Longhorns will feel that it takes it too easy on the Sooners, and the Sooners will feel it is unfair to them.  Well, I’m just going to let the data speak for itself and not make any claims that can’t be supported.
One guiding principle I have had […]

When a program is caught cheating in recruiting, its fans will often claim that they are just trying to match their rivals’ efforts. “They must be cheating, too,” they argue, “How else could they get all of the recruits they sign?” There is a kernel of truth in that statement. The governing rules limit every […]

When we left off, college football recruiting was relatively violation-free, because there really weren’t any rules to violate. More precisely, conferences set their own rules (I assume independents did as well). Ivy League schools favored no athletic scholarships and no special jobs for players. Big 10 and PCC (precursor of the PAC-10) schools had no […]

In my first post, I mentioned how odd it was that universities would condone cheating in college football. I really think the university presidents or deans that were aware of cheating and accepted it were weak in power, or loved football more than they loved their academic reputations. I think that a lot […]

This is Part One in a multiple part series.
Please check out parts two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten.

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I see this as the start of a series of posts, explaining the history of cheating in college football. This series will be fairly non-judgmental, except when dealing with obvious sociopaths […]