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

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Oh8ch;1834605; said:
Not an authoritative answer, but I did understand they were appealing. In any case they only took 19 last year and could count several against 2010.

What I find puzzling is that they have recruited a punter, a kicker and a long snapper. Those are frequently walk-ons and you would certainly think would be so for a team short on schollies.

Even stranger is their continued recruitment of JUCOs. Why use a schollie on a kid who will be gone in two years when you are still facing a year short on ships? More puzzling still if they are appealing and these kids will be gone with two years of punishment left.
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Really? You find this strange and puzzling? Do I need to remind you who is now the head coach of USC? :shake:
 
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USC opens bid to reduce sanctions

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Southern California officials are hoping their second round before the NCAA turns out better than the first.
School president Max Nikias, athletic director Pat Haden and four other university representatives spent more than four hours talking with the infractions appeals committee Saturday in hopes of reducing some sanctions imposed against the Trojans' storied football program. A decision is expected in four to eight weeks.
"All I will say is that I want to thank the NCAA for giving us an opportunity before the appeals committee to have a good and fair hearing," Nikias said after the meeting at an Indianapolis hotel. "Now we have to wait for the ruling."
The Trojans want the NCAA to reduce a two-year bowl ban to one year. They're also hoping the NCAA will limit football scholarship reductions to five in each of the next three years instead of the scheduled 10.
The NCAA imposed those penalties June 10 after ruling Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush and basketball player O.J. Mayo received improper benefits. The university also was cited for a lack of institutional control. Bush gave back his Heisman Trophy.
After requiring schools to prove "abuse of discretion" after a rules change instituted in 2008, only one appeal has been successful. The other 10 failed.
NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn said the rules do not allow school officials to present any new information in the appeals phase.
Haden and Nikias showed up about 45 minutes before the hearing started. One member of the delegation carried a printed board that outlined the original sanctions against the school, and during two short breaks, the Southern California contingent huddled in discussions.
Nikias made the opening statement. Haden, the former Trojans quarterback and Rhodes Scholar, made the closing argument, the school said in a statement.
After accepting Southern California's self-imposed penalties in men's basketball and women's tennis, the football program took the biggest hit. Football coach Pete Carroll and basketball coach Tim Floyd both left the school.
Two weeks after the June ruling, school officials said they would appeal some of the penalties, calling them excessive. The Trojans were given four years probation, had to vacate 14 wins and were required to banish Bush from the program.
Critics of the original NCAA ruling believe the NCAA's recent decisions involving football programs at Auburn and Ohio State should play in the Trojans favor.
Tigers quarterback Cam Newton was allowed to keep playing despite an NCAA ruling that his father had asked Mississippi State for cash when his son was being recruited out of junior college. Investigators said neither the son nor Auburn knew of the plan. Newton wound up leading Auburn to the national championship and won the Heisman Trophy, too.
Three weeks later, five Ohio State players were suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season after the NCAA ruled they had sold their championship rings, jerseys and awards and received improper benefits from a tattoo parlor. But all five, including quarterback Terrelle Pryor, were allowed to play in the Buckeyes' bowl game.
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Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/ncaa/01/22/usc.appeal.ap/index.html#ixzz1BnnCVLE3
 
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You would think the fact that USC blatantly ignored the possibility that they could lose the appeal would play against them in that appeal.......but then again I live in a fantasy world where people are held accountable for what they do and unicorns frolic in gumdrop fields, so....
 
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bassbuckeye07;1927495; said:
I don't think this will have anything to do with August 12th
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I certainly hope so, although there were those who thought that the recent situations (Auburn, OSU, etc.) might cause the NCAA to lessen their response to USC.

Now that they haven't, it seems as if the tone has been set for future sanctions and investigations- no more "slaps on wrist" for big programs.
 
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How big will their 2012 recruiting class be, now? Less than 15? As small as 6-8 recruits?
And to top it off some of the faithful want Garrett back and are calling Haden incompetent? :shake:
 
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According to Scout they already have 8 commits for 2012: http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p=9&c=8&toinid=736&sspid=-1&yr=2012

Re: Also continuing is the provision allowing USC upperclassmen to transfer to any FBS schools without the typical one-year penalty, which Trojans coach Lane Kiffin called "free agency" last year. Any USC senior can transfer this offseason and play his final season at a school of his choosing.

However, USC could have some additional transfers too.
 
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Well, the punishment definitely doesn't fit the crime. We just got hit hard by Hurricane Dee and co.

South Park pretty well covered the matter on their episode last night. The NCAA is insanely corrupt and hypocritical. It's just sad that they've decided that their best course of action is to punish kids that were in elementary or junior high when all this went down.
 
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