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NCAA punishes USC - Reggie Bush, OJ Mayo, Dwayne Jarrett, Joe McKnight investigation

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HINYG8;1591730; said:
The finger is pointed at the USC adminstation....lack of institutional control...which is the BIG finger...the one in the middle.

The reality remains...the reaction and fall out at OSU is light years different than what is happening at USC..which has shown a series of events and benefits that have resulted in no word from the NCAA and a free pass from the media..which points toward my central sentiment: I don't want to see USC win anything that provides for more money or positive exposure until the sins of their past are addressed. As much as I would enjoy beating them in the Rose Bowl (assuming we take care of bussiness tomorrow)...I'd rather they not get to enjoy the benefits of getting a BCS bid.

At the end of the day...they are getting a free pass for events far larger than what we have seen other programs taken to task for..both publically by the media and via regulatory response from the NCAA. It is BS...if Mo C pointing at our staff makes our circimstances 'different' so be it...but the fact remains the NCAA needed to close the book..one way or the other...on USC a long time ago. The fact that it remains unresolved has turned it into a cold case with no closure or justice for any party involved..and that includes any program that had to deal with the NCAA for far less than the literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of benefits in quesiton at USC. If the NCAA doesn't intend to touch USC..then close the investigation and say there was no evidence of wrong doing...or acknowledge the receipts, records, and statements that prove Bush and Jarrett..at a minimum had illegal benefits......and then talk about the Mayo saga and wrap that up too.....

end it.

The longer it goes without a response the worse the NCAA looks and the less any punishment to USC will impact those in the administration who should have been monitoring and controlling those events. I'm not after Pete here.....it is USC administration that is culpable IMO. Mo C pointing at our staff isn't relevant as I'm not looking for the staff to be punished in Troy....it is the AD..this is institutional control...not Pete.
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The difference in reaction to tOSUs problem and what's happening at USC today is irrellevant and the already mentioned explanation fits...MoC pointed at tOSU and said we did wrong. The same hasn't happened at USC...but rather the problems have pointed to players themselves. Meanwhile, the vitriole on the blogosphere continues....kind of a waste of space.
 
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USC investigating tailback Joe McKnight's use of vehicle

Joe McKnight, star tailback of USC's football team, has been driving a sport utility vehicle owned by a Santa Monica businessman, an arrangement that the school is investigating and may be in violation of college rules.

The NCAA, which governs major college sports, prohibits student athletes from accepting benefits from marketing representatives or agents or "extra benefits" based on their athletic ability.

For several weeks, McKnight has been seen driving a well-kept 2006 Land Rover that, according to California Department of Motor Vehicles records, is registered to Scott Schenter.

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YAWWNNNN! A USC player violating NCAA rules? What's the next headline? "Water is wet! Pictures at 11:00!"
 
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USC is down. No chance of a NC?

McKnight should be very worried. Investigating him, finding fault, and levying a punishment may show that everything else was always A-OK in the football program.

USC should lower the hammer right now and suspend him from the first quarter of their spring game. Really. It's time to get tough. Maybe a whole half.

That will fix everything.
 
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So, an LA Times reporter states that he has seen McKnight driving the Land Rover "several times" over the past few weeks, and Joe says that he's never driven it.

If he tells the NCAA he never drove it, and it's somehow proven that he actually has driven it, he should just go ahead and declare for the NFL draft. The NCAA penalizes lying to them as harshly as anything. Just ask MoC or Dez Bryant. And as Reggie Bush has shown, once you leave college, the NCAA can't do anything to you as an individual.

I remember posting on this site 3 years ago that I believed that McKnight should not be allowed to attend USC after the Reggie Bush "phone call while McKnight was a recruit" violation. To me, that was a penalty that fit the transgression - USC cheated with that specific player, so make him attend elsewhere. (I'd do the same thing for the Tennessee football recruits that had the Volunteer hostesses attend their games).

How USC comes out of this entire investigation without at least a "failure to monitor" finding and a couple of years of probation will baffle me. And I'm referring to the football program - hardly anybody cares how hard their bball team gets whacked.

Edit - here's my post on the McKnight phone call, from this same thread in Feb, 2007 (McKnight hinmself said he talked to Bush on the phone):

BB73;745935; said:
This one is fairly simple for me. The NCAA should require USC and McKnight and/or his coach to provide the telephone records. If the conference call occurred (or if Carroll had Bush on one phone and McKnight on another at the same time, which would allow denial of a "conference call"), McKnight should be barred from attending USC.

Any penalties for USC should be determined after all of the investigations are completed.
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BB73;1622865; said:
So, an LA Times reporter states that he has seen McKnight driving the Land Rover "several times" over the past few weeks, and Joe says that he's never driven it.

If he tells the NCAA he never drove it, and it's somehow proven that he actually has driven it, he should just go ahead and declare for the NFL draft. The NCAA penalizes lying to them as harshly as anything. Just ask MoC or Dez Bryant. And as Reggie Bush has shown, once you leave college, the NCAA can't do anything to you as an individual.

I remember posting on this site 3 years ago that I believed that McKnight should not be allowed to attend USC after the Reggie Bush "phone call while McKnight was a recruit" violation. To me, that was a penalty that fit the transgression - USC cheated with that specific player, so make him attend elsewhere. (I'd do the same thing for the Tennessee football recruits that had the Volunteer hostesses attend their games).

How USC comes out of this entire investigation without at least a "failure to monitor" finding and a couple of years of probation will baffle me. And I'm referring to the football program - hardly anybody cares how hard their bball team gets whacked.

Edit - here's my post on the McKnight phone call, from this same thread in Feb, 2007 (McKnight hinmself said he talked to Bush on the phone):
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Change your username to "Don Quixote" and all this makes a lot more sense.
 
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