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stowfan;1948615; said:Over the long week end, the BTN showed replays of both the 1998 Orange Bowl and the 1998 Rose Bowl. If I had to vote on number one based on those two games, Nebraska would have to get my vote. Holding Tennessee to nine points into the third quarter was impressive.
knapplc;1947438; said:DVR is set. I have the day off. Can't wait!
Gatorubet;1947182; said:How so you get in trouble in Nebraska? If you file a gun the odds of hitting anything but a dirt mound, a rusting tractor or a prairie dog are a billion to one. Rape is out of the question, as since the invention of barn door locks, the whole state is damn near celibate. Now, if [censored] poor passing offenses were criminalized, then you might have some ex-cons running around the state.
"There will be some mixed emotions; we have a long history with schools like Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Iowa State," said Osborne, who coached 25 games against each of those teams. "It's sad to be leaving them, but on the other hand our fans, coaches and athletes are all looking forward to being in the Big Ten. This is not to disparage anyone in the Big 12 -- we had a great amount of respect for all of those schools -- but in terms of how we view academics and athletics, we're probably a little more like-minded across the board with those in the Big Ten than the Big 12."
NU self-reports violation regarding textbooks
The University of Nebraska Athletic Department announced Tuesday that it has self-reported NCAA violations pertaining to student-athletes who inadvertently received recommended course textbooks, in addition to their required textbooks.
Recommended textbooks are not permissible under NCAA legislation. Nebraska submitted a report to the NCAA on the matter just recently.
Nebraska uncovered the violations on its own, and conducted an investigation into the situation.
Nebraska found that "no intentional wrongdoing, no monetary reward and no competitive advantage was gained on any part of the student-athletes involved."
Staff at the University Bookstore provided the recommended textbooks believing it permissible that student-athletes receive them.
This happened with student athletes between the spring of 2007 and fall of 2010. The total value of the textbooks comes to $27,869.47, with the average cost amounting to less than $60 per athlete.
The compliance department found 181 student-athletes whose extra benefits from the books totaled less than $100 and 57 athletes whose benefits totaled more than that. The athletes involved individually paid a charity of their choice to the amount of the extra benefit received.
Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne said Tuesday he didn't know a timetable on when the NCAA might render its opinion, but suspected it would not come until maybe October at the earliest.
"The important thing to understand is that opposed to as some other NCAA cases involving books, no student-athletes received any money. In other words, they didn't sell their books and pocket the money," Osborne said. "There was no scam of that type. No one knowingly violated any rules. The student-athletes simply did what they were told they could do. The extra benefit was really simply the use of some books they probably normally would not have bought. ... There was no athletic competitive advantage. In other words, there was no recruit that came here, nobody that was given a leg up in terms of competitive ability and certainly no coaches were involved at all in this.
"The error that we made was we simply did not monitor the situation as we should have. We probably should have had regular communication with the bookstore from our compliance office, and in turn, it would have been very helpful had the bookstore at some point have given us a call and said, "Is this something we can do?"
While not the most serious of missteps you'll find, Osborne said the situation is "embarrassing."
"I had hoped that something like this wouldn't happen," Osborne said. "But I guess if there is any redeeming factor, it's that nobody intentionally did anything. We simply did not monitor things as closely as we should have."
Seriously.I suppose if I had to see a violation from my school, something regarding textbooks would be the least of all evils. It's still embarrassing and stupid, though.
knapplc;1948844; said:Well.... this sucks.
I cannot fathom how giving athletes textbooks, even non-essential textbooks, is "inadvertent." I don't think we're going to find out that Joe Schmoe in the same class was also given the same book. The deciding factor is clearly that the guy receiving the book is an athlete. How freaking dumb can you be?
I would also like to know what the hell our Compliance Department is doing not uncovering this for four years.
I suppose if I had to see a violation from my school, something regarding textbooks would be the least of all evils. It's still embarrassing and stupid, though.
knapplc;1948661; said:Sagarin's computer rankings for 1997 had Michigan finishing fourth, with Nebraska on top. It wasn't really that close, when you look at the body of work throughout the season by both teams and then their bowl games. Peerless Price, Peyton Manning and Jamal Lewis, Shaun Ellis, Terry Fair and Leonard Little - this is not a chopped-liver team, and the Huskers demolished them.
Meanwhile, Michigan eked out a win over Ryan Leaf and Wazoo, a lackluster team. Nebraska whipped the #3 team in the country, while Michigan barely beat the #8 team in the country.
Rankings and teams that Nebraska beat in the final AP Poll:
7 - Tennessee
8 - Kansas State
18 - Washington
20 - Texas A&M
23 - Missouri
Rankings and teams that Michigan beat in the final AP Poll:
9 - Washington State
12 - The Buckeyes
16 - Penn State
Nebraska beat more ranked teams, and higher ranked teams, and more decisively.
I mean, yeah - I'm biased. But it really shouldn't have been a split vote.
knapplc;1948844; said:Well.... this sucks.
I cannot fathom how giving athletes textbooks, even non-essential textbooks, is "inadvertent." I don't think we're going to find out that Joe Schmoe in the same class was also given the same book. The deciding factor is clearly that the guy receiving the book is an athlete. How freaking dumb can you be?
I would also like to know what the hell our Compliance Department is doing not uncovering this for four years.
I suppose if I had to see a violation from my school, something regarding textbooks would be the least of all evils. It's still embarrassing and stupid, though.
knapplc;1947172; said:Do you want to play "compare the rap sheets?" I think I have a box full of Florida ammo from the Spurrier era, chock full of assaults on women, dozens of arrests, weapons charges and the like.
Do we want to throw all that [Mark May] down on each other, or can we let the ghosts of Lawrence Phillips' career at Nebraska die?
knapplc;1948661; said:Sagarin's computer rankings for 1997 had Michigan finishing fourth, with Nebraska on top.