When Punishment Isn’t Really Punishment
1-liner, College Football June 12th. 2009, 3:30pmAlabama Football: Do not say the program was punished by the NCAA. It was not. Losing 21 wins and getting “probation” for three years is nothing to a major football program. Regardless of what you read, football officials at the school have to be privately snickering. That isn’t a slap on the wrist, it’s more of a ‘no dessert if you don’t eat your green beans.’ (Press-Register)
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June 12th, 2009 at 3:31 PM
This is SEC country. Rules need not apply.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:34 PM
we were looking for “you don’t get any pudding if you don’t eat your meat.”
June 12th, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Niiice.
And as an ACC fan (meaning F the SEC), I am failing to see how the punishment doesn’t fit the crime here?
June 12th, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Ole Miss found some bullshit way to sign 37 players this year. I’m sure Alabama will find a way to get around it.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:38 PM
How can you have any pudding, if you don’t eat your meat?
June 12th, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Giving students textbooks, I’ve never been so outraged in my life.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:40 PM
In all fairness, as I said yesterday, some players got free textbooks. It’s not like some shady wannabe agent gave a recruit’s mom’s a house worth three-quarters of a million dollars.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Free textbooks!? Sign me up!
June 12th, 2009 at 3:43 PM
They got free textbooks for their friends? Is that all that happened?
June 12th, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Huge scandal. You don’t know what this means for the kids looking up to athletes… they have to learn now that higher education (does that apply at Ala-BAMA?) costs lots of money, and no free books allowed. Unless you are a stud linebacker.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:49 PM
What exactly was the offense here? Are they allowed to get free textbooks for themselves but not allowed to give those same books to their friends?
June 12th, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Screw Alabama. Let’s slap some punishment on the bookstores that buy your $200 book back for $8.
Or the publishers who are going to make me pay $200 for a new edition instead of $55 for the used one just because they slapped on an extra chapter on the Internet that we’re not covering anyway.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:53 PM
The NCAA. Pulling a Bud Selig since… forever.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Everytime I read about some school getting probabtion, I get so pissed off that Indiana’s program got set back 4 years because of a 20 or so phone calls.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:04 PM
I should add Self Reported Phone Calls
June 12th, 2009 at 4:05 PM
yeah, but dumbass houston nutt signed a bunch of kids that will never see campus because of their grades to boost up his recruiting rating.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:11 PM
A-Men, brotha. What a horrible rip-off… but my last couple years in school I was able to get my hands on the “Int’l Edition” for most classes that were up to date editions for a fraction of the normal price. Usually photocopied type stuff, but bound well and readable.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Still a hell of a lot more punishment than USC’s received or probably will receive
June 12th, 2009 at 4:27 PM
The NCAA announced that USC will have to give up all the games they won on ESPN against the greatest teams of all time before they played that Rose Bowl against Texas.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Once again, I direct your attention to a fine column by Darren Rovell on this same subject.