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DallasHusker;2101285; said:
Well, my prediction was pretty darn close, if I say so myself! :) We ended up with a class of 17 recruits, and a team ranking of #24 at Rivals, putting us third in the conference, behind only tOSU and TSUN, both of whom of course had classes half again larger than ours at 25. For our small class size, I'm very happy with the end result. We only lost out today on one top recruit, and lost him to Stanford, which I understand.

Congrats to tOSU on a great class.
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I haven't read this anywheres- is UNL giving 4 year schollys or one year renewables?
 
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Bo was really vague about the four-year scholarship thing. I don't think we're doing four-year scholarships. He said several times that "there is language" in the document discussing the terms.

Reading the tea leaves, I imagine there is an "out" for the team, but that if conditions are met the player has more of a guarantee than what they had before.
 
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knapplc;2101443; said:
Bo was really vague about the four-year scholarship thing. I don't think we're doing four-year scholarships. He said several times that "there is language" in the document discussing the terms.

Reading the tea leaves, I imagine there is an "out" for the team, but that if conditions are met the player has more of a guarantee than what they had before.
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I agree there was some vagueness - but he definitely said "we're doing multi-year" when asked specifically about one year renewable vs. multi-year. I'm betting there IS language providing "outs" if certain obligations aren't met by the student-athlete, and likely those outs are there for all the B1G schools, but this is still definitely a step forward in terms of integrity for the B1G.
 
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DallasHusker;2101458; said:
I agree there was some vagueness - but he definitely said "we're doing multi-year" when asked specifically about one year renewable vs. multi-year. I'm betting there IS language providing "outs" if certain obligations aren't met by the student-athlete, and likely those outs are there for all the B1G schools, but this is still definitely a step forward in terms of integrity for the B1G.
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Agreed. And agree on the integrity issue - not that this has been a problem. To my knowledge no kid has ever been kicked out because they didn't perform on the field.

Off-field issues... that's another story. Just ask Josh Williams. :(
 
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I'm not sure how much of this was related to football players, but this slap on the wrist would seemingly make the Huskers have to be more careful for the next couple of years. The debatable benefits of self-reporting.

SI.com

NCAA puts Nebraska on probation in books case

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- The NCAA has put Nebraska on two years' probation and agreed to a self-imposed fine of $38,000 as part of an impermissible benefits case involving textbooks and school supplies.
The NCAA announced the penalty Wednesday, sparing Nebraska a stiffer punishment for what were determined to be major infractions across multiple sports over multiple years.
Nebraska reported the problem. Last July, the school acknowledged that it had improperly distributed nearly $28,000 in textbooks and other school supplies to athletes from 2007-10.
The school proposed a fine of $28,000 payable to charity. The probation will run through Jan. 31, 2014.

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Yep, that was first reported last July by Nebraska and was in the news at that time. Of course I may be biased, but to call this a "major violation" is just absurd, I'd say. Here's a Yahoo "Dr. Saturday" blog report from last July:

Rule breaking has become a trend this summer and, as we learned with Joe Paterno and Mark Richt, no one is immune from even the most meaningless of violations. This week, Nebraska came forward as the latest victim of NCAA tedium with a confession that it gave several student athletes extra textbook benefits.


According to NCAA rules, providing textbooks beyond the required reading is not permissible. Nebraska athletes also were receiving "recommended" textbooks for their various classes.


It is mildly amusing that the NCAA, with its commitment to academic excellence and all, is discouraging schools from helping student athletes learn more.


Nebraska discovered the violation on its own and as a preventative measure, self-imposed a two-year probation and fined itself $28,000.
The extra textbook benefits occurred between the spring of 2007 and fall of 2010 and the textbook "scandal" involved 238 athletes and totaled $27,869.47, with the average cost amounting to less than $60 per athlete.
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footba...aught-helping-athletes-learn?urn=ncaaf,wp3332

So since Nebraska at that time self-imposed a two year probation, I guess this SI announcement is just the NCAA ratifying Nebraska's previously self-imposed penalties.
 
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DallasHusker;2101542; said:
Yep, that was first reported last July by Nebraska and was in the news at that time. Of course I may be biased, but to call this a "major violation" is just absurd, I'd say.
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Depending who's reporting it, every violation committed by any Big Ten member school is considered "major".

You're lucky Bo Pelini didn't try to rig a raffle for campers. :wink:
 
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Long story short on this "major" violation:

Every class has required books and recommended books. The UNL Book Store gets these lists from the instructors and packages up a box for each athlete. The people at the book store didn't realize that the recommended books aren't to be given to the athletes as part of their scholly, just the required books.

So our athletes received books that they would have otherwise had to pay for had they been regular students. This is a major violation.
 
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knapplc;2101572; said:
Long story short on this "major" violation:

Every class has required books and recommended books. The UNL Book Store gets these lists from the instructors and packages up a box for each athlete. The people at the book store didn't realize that the recommended books aren't to be given to the athletes as part of their scholly, just the required books.

So our athletes received books that they would have otherwise had to pay for had they been regular students. This is a major violation.
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And how many of those "recommended" books were then traded for tattoos?!!! Let's get to the meat of the matter here. :gavel slam:
 
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WolverineMike;2101675; said:
seem to have gotten off light. Didn't Alabama get 5 years probation for a book scandal some time ago?
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At some point you should try google before admitting how little you know about CFB past and present.

In this case alabama ncaa violations.
 
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