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Steve Spurrier (bye)

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Posted on Fri, Apr. 27, 2012 10:59 AM

USC loses scholarships, fined for violations

By ANDREW SHAIN - [email protected]


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NCAA statement: USC cited for failure to monitor


The NCAA agreed with South Carolina's self-imposed sanctions and ordered today that the Gamecocks to forfeit six football scholarships over two seasons, pay a $18,500 fine and go under three years of probation a result of players and recruits receiving $55,000 in extra benefits.
USC also will disassociate with boosters involved in the infractions and reduce official football campus visits next year to 30 from 56 -- which were also part of self-imposed sanctions issued in December.
The NCAA committee on infractions did not impose stricter punishment, including a post-season ban, because of the school's cooperation and self-penalties and. "There was no unethical conduct in this case."
"The university regrets the past actions and decisions by individuals that resulted in violations of NCAA legislation," USC athletics director Eric Hyman said in a statement. "We are pleased, however, that the committee on infractions found the corrective actions we have taken and the penalties we have self-imposed reflect the University's commitment to full compliance with NCAA rules."
South Carolina has not disputed accusations it committed the three ?major and serious? violations cited by the NCAA last year. They included athletes receiving reduced rates to stay at a Columbia hotel and recruits and athletes receiving inducements and extra benefits from an alumni. The school also agreed that it failed to properly monitor those two potentially improper situations.
Several athletics and academic leaders -- including Hyman, university president Harris Pastides and football coach Steve Spurrier -- attended a NCAA Infractions Committee hearing in February in Los Angeles.

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BayBuck;2149416; said:
NCAA math for SEC fans:

Failure to Monitor for impermissible benefits + Boosters in recruiting = 3 years probation and 6 scholarships

21 players involved > 6 scholarship penalty
$51K in benefits > $18K penalty

Oooh burn
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http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoo...six-scholarships-over-next-three-years-042712

There were no forfeiture of games or bowl ban attached to the penalties,
which stemmed from athletes receiving $59,000 in impermissible benefits.
The NCAA said South Carolina's cooperation went ''beyond standard
expectations.''

NCAA committee on infractions chairman Britton Banowsky said it was
obvious early on that South Carolina wanted to get at the truth and in
some instances did more than was required during the enforcement
process. "'They took the interview process and discovery process to a
higher level,'' Banowsky said.

The penalties could've been much more severe. Banowsky, commissioner of
Conference USA, said South Carolina chose not to manage information and
protect itself from NCAA investigators as other schools have done when
faced with allegations of rule breaking.

''They wanted to ask all the hard questions of all the right people,''
Banowsky said. ''Even went beyond what the NCAA staff was doing. We see
that less likely than we see the other approach and the report reflects how
pleased the committee was with their diligence.''
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Do tell.
 
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Gatorubet;2149421; said:
Do tell.
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BayBuck;2149441; said:
Is that "Committee Rationale" or "Rationalization"?

So yes, let's do tell. 10 football players! 50 thousand dollars! Eight thousand more in recruiting inducements from boosters! Failure to monitor! Slap on the wrist!

Seriously, does the NCAA literally forget what the "$" sign means when they get into Southeastern territory?
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It appears that they care less about the dollar amount and more about not lying, covering up, or stonewalling in the resulting investigation resulting from the violation.

That makes sense to me, as they (the NCAA) have such pathetic investigatory powers (the much discussed lack of subpoena power) that, lacking the "stick" of compelling discovery, they instead offer the "candy" of lenient sanctions if you come clean and cooperate.

Does not make it "fair". Does make some sense when you look at the bigger picture and not the case itself.
 
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Classic Spurrier...

AJC

Spurrier fires another shot at Ole Miss

7:30 am July 27, 2012, by Joel Provano
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Steve Spurrier has found a new foil in Ole Miss. (AP photo)

Steve Spurrier has put South Carolina football on the map, and the Old Ball Coach is beginning to resemble the insufferable cad of his Florida Gator days. And he seems to have found a new foil ? Ole Miss, oddly enough ? to add to his favorite targets, Georgia and Tennessee.
His latest feud began a couple of weeks ago as he was complaining about Georgia seemingly having an easier schedule than the Gamecocks in the SEC East.
?You think I make the schedule? If I made the schedule Georgia would be playing LSU and we?d be playing Ole Miss,? he said.
Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze picked up on the slight and responded.
?We do play them in 2013,? Freeze said. ?I will circle that one and hopefully change his perspective of Ole Miss football.?
Spurrier, of course, has never let anybody have the last word, so he used a visit to ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., this week to comment on Freeze?s recruitment of Penn State players.
While Spurrier told ESPN he?s ?not actively recruiting any Penn State players,? it?s understandable, he said, that Ole Miss is: ?They need some ball players there.?
The ball?s in Freeze?s court, but the first-year SEC coach might want to call a truce in the child?s game of ?is not, is too.? Because when it comes to child?s games, Spurrier, like most kids, never seems to get tired.
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if this hadn't come from Spurrier, it could be taken more at face value.

according to the radio, Ole Piss is well below the 85 scholarship limit.
so they do need players in Oxford.

not in the sarcastic everyone they have sucks (which they do) way Spurrier likely meant it, but in the literal they ain't got as many guys as everyone else.


of course i approve 100% of anyone talking shit about Ole Piss at any given opportunity.
 
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Steve Spurrier: There’s more to life than winning SEC championship

Many football fans live by the thought that there is nothing more important than winning. That may have once been the case for South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier, but in his older, wiser age it seems the ol’ ball coach has toned down his outlook on the coaching game these days. In an interview with Go Gamecocks, Spurrier said there is more to life than winning the SEC championship. It is a quote that may turn some heads and raise a few eyebrows, but at the same time it is a bit refreshing to hear a coach share that sentiment.

“To go 6-2 in the conference, which is the best record ever for South Carolina – and we did it three years in a row – how can you be upset? We are disappointed that we beat the division winner and they never lost again, but give them credit,” Spurrier said, referring to Missouri’s 2013 SEC East division crown. “Jack Nicklaus finished runner-up 19 times in the majors. Of course, he won 18, but every time he finished runner-up, he shook the hand of the other guy and said, ‘Well done, you beat me.’ Missouri ran the table after we beat them. People kept asking me, I said, ‘If they win it all, I’ll call coach (Gary) Pinkel and congratulate him,’ and that’s exactly what I did.”
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“But the other side of that is something I have learned from being here – there’s more to life than the SEC championship,” Spurrier continued. “I would still say that’s the biggest goal we could reach right there, but total wins, where you are ranked, the state championship (referring to the rivalry with Clemson), bowl victories. Winning that bowl game just makes life so much more pleasant until you play again.”

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...s-more-to-life-than-winning-sec-championship/
 
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