I hope this series helped you with the dead season withdrawal pains. I learned a lot in researching it, and wanted to finish it with some conclusions drawn from the case studies.1. There are very,...

In this series, I have made very few claims that couldn't be supported by readily accessible independent info. One of the primary sources is the NCAA database of major violations. Here's the link: h...

This is the one I've dreaded writing. This is the one about the Longhorns. All through these posts, I've adhered to the idea that if a school were penalized by the NCAA, it was breaking the rules....

I'm concerned that this review of cheating in recruiting is too Southwest-centric. I'm sure the SEC is full of great cheating lore and examples; it's just that the SWC cases are so much...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

A look at the history of malfeasance in recruiting.