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Gamecocks get 3 years probation

And, to underline my personal enmity for espin, there sits Holtz with his grinning commentary, sitt'n in the catbird's seat on espin's entertainment sport program on gameday. What a crock of shit. What a total lack of journalistic integrity by that skunk network of bobble heads.
 
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Is South Carolina big enough for ESPN to bother trying to "bring down" (ie. hammer incessantly like that is their goal for existence) ?

I think the question ought to be whether ESPN should fire Holtz. More than a handful of ESPN's sports figures called for Tressel's head the last two years with respect to situations that amounted to nothing. I would expect ESPN to live by the standards it attempts to impose on others.
 
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Gamecocks get 3 years, and Holtz gets to live the good life at ESPN? :shake:
No, his probation is three more years of sitting next to Mark May.

I don't see any reason to call Holtz out on gameday. Holtz isn't the hypocrite that called for Tressel's head, even though his own program was dirty. That was Mark May. Holtz might not have taken the high ground last year, when it came to the fire Tressel crowd at ESPN, but we'll never know for sure. He wasn't employed by ESPN yet.
 
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For the lazy, and for historical purposes in case that link dies in a while (bold added) :

"USC will lose two scholarships from its 85-scholarship total during the 2006 and ’07 seasons and a total of 12 official recruiting visits during the next two years. The probationary period extends through June 2008, but the Gamecocks will not be barred from appearing on TV or participating in postseason play."
 
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The members of the Committee on Infractions who reviewed this case were Paul T. Dee, director of athletics, University of Miami (Florida); Alfred Lechner, Jr., vice-president, Tyco International (US) Inc., Princeton, New Jersey; Edward Leland, director of athletics, Stanford University; Andrea L. Myers, director of athletics, Indiana State University; James Park Jr., attorney, Lexington, Kentucky; committee acting chair Josephine R. Potuto, faculty athletics representative and professor of law, University of Nebraska; and Thomas E. Yeager, commissioner of the Colonial Athletic Association.

Are you kidding me? A dude from Tyco sits on the infractions committee? I guess it takes one to know one. This is the same Tyco which is headquartered in Bermuda to avoid paying US taxes and recently had it's CEO convicted of stealing hundreds of millions from the company and sentenced to 25 years. :roll2: Gotta love the NCAA!
 
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Yuo sure it's not the Tyco that made this?:

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:wink:
 
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