FSU GETS VERDICT IN ACADEMIC FRAUD CASE
It’s NCAA Penalty day in college football, and who couldn’t be excited about that? The offseason is a wondrous cavalcade of events, isn’t it? This ledge…looks so inviting…so…death-y….
Only the fact that this is Florida State in potential NCAA trouble keeps us away from the ledge. The case in question involves 39 athletes who cheated in a music class, an event characterized as the class being “compromised.” This term is far too badass to be used in an academic fraud investigation, NCAA rulesters: it belongs to the CIA, and applies to things that have to go in hiding in Dubai for three years to avoid Chinese assassins, not dipshit music classes jocks took to get easy As in at football schools. Unless Bobby Bowden’s telling someone calling from a satphone in Central Asia that he doesn’t know him, and that he’s “burned,” we protest the usage.
Anyway, the judgment against the Seminoles in the case comes down today. FSU responded by suspending a slew of players for the Music City Bowl, cooperated extensively with the NCAA, and generally behaved in a very proactive manner during the entire case. We hope for nothing but the best outcome in the case. One picture sums up our feelings on the matter.

Hope it goes well, boys! The skipping cannonballs of cruel fate: great for the teeth, better for the longevity of your football program. We hate Florida State. Oh, do we hate Florida State. The press conference will take place at 3 p.m. If Atlanta explodes, it’s just us atomizing into a solid warm front of harm-joy.









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sb says:
Not the “death-penalty” I was hoping for, but Blobby will have to coach another 7 years in order to pass JoPa at this stage with the vacation of all wins for ‘06 and ‘07…and that men’s track national championship didn’t last long. Add scholly reductions for four years. New Mexico must now be ginning up their lawsuit against the ncaa as they were handed a worse penalty and they only had about 10% of the violations that reFSU had…
And the Governor authorized this day of our lord to be known as “The University of Florida Day”…nice timing, Guv…
March 6th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
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zzgator says:
No blood blood blood tag?
March 6th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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DrBundy says:
Question. Hatred of FSU greater than, less than, or equal to hatred for Georgia during “Hate Week”? This is for my own records, nothing more.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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TideDruid says:
Please don’t blow up Atlanta, I live here now.
Blow up Buckhead if you must, I don’t live in Yuppie-land
March 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
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mlmintampa says:
I would like to thank FSU for their tears which will add seasoning to my Friday fish. Mmmm, FSU, let me taste your tears.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
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hobeg8r says:
I can only speak for myself. Hatred for F$U is different than hatred for UGA. I hate F$U because they’re F$U. I hate them 52 weeks a year…not just one. I would hate them even if we never played them again. I hate UGA once a year when we play them…and wish them well the rest of the time. It’s more of a love-hate relationship for UGA and a hate-hate relationship for F$U.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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PW says:
sb–
Where are you getting the forfeiture stuff from?
March 6th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
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zzgator says:
PW…
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_college_fsu/2009/03/report-florida-state-will-be-forced-to-vacate-victories-individual-records.html
March 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
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John says:
When Georgia is led by a competent man, Richt, Georgia gets top billing. Led by a loser, Goff, then FSU gets more hate. It doesn’t help FSU’s case that they are led by by a man we can no longer hate but pity because of his senility. Make jokes at his expense? Sure. But the victories have become a little emptier with each passing bout of dementia.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
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sb says:
hobe…you can speak for me, too…it is indeed a different hatred, and I have actually loved some dawgs, but never a nole.
And nole hatred increases when the irony of hiring a community college president to lead their “university” is so blatently missed…if they can’t see it, then there really are no grounds for reconciliation. That and the fact that the buttfucker added the Lane Fenner game as a nole victory in the reFSU official records…forty years after a questionable call…revisionism = posterior fornication.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
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Peter K says:
hobeg8r ,
You really need to let go of all that year-round hate. It can’t be good for your prostate.
Maybe you can pick up a hobby or something.
When you’re on your deathbed, I want you to think about the good things in life, ok? Not how much you hate dem stupid fuckin noles.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
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JD says:
(set to tune of Seminole War Chant)
PROOOOOO-OOO-OO-OO-OOOOOOO… BAAAAA-AAA-AA-AA-TION…
(repeat approximately 1400 times a game)
March 6th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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I Love Turd says:
Oh my god! JD, you’re hilarious man.
You should start your own witty college football blog.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
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yoyofutbawl says:
Yeah, Yeah, that’s right. But, they’re all good boys….yeah, yeah
March 6th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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CKGator says:
Really? This doesn’t scream slap on the wrist, a couple stadium steps and don’t do it again?
They’ll skate like they always do. Bastards.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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Doug says:
Is it bad that I can’t stop watching that poor li’l colonial dude getting his head taken off?
March 6th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
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sb says:
…and that skipping cannonball; while its result properly analogizes the ncaa’s effect on Blobby’s legacy, it doesn’t properly depict the spray of blood and tissue on those closest to the primary victim. Like those who guard St Blobby’s place in history, they, too will be covered with the detritus of a close-quarters cranial explosion. Do I hear the lamenting of their women?
March 6th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
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zzgator says:
Read em and weep noles…read em and weep…
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/40854962.html
March 6th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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Coop says:
That guy on the Bob & Tom show was not funny, (lesbian golf hat? ha, sure you mouth breather), but his Bobby Bowden was spot on. They all remain, “good kids.”
March 6th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
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DrB says:
NCAA let them off easy, barely even a slap on the wrist.
Who cares about vacating titles, everybody still acknowledges who won what and when no matter whether the NCAA official marks say differently.
March 6th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
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jj gator says:
Four years of probation, forfeiture of 2006 and 2007 wins, loss of schollies – and what did SpongeBooby DiaperPants do? Likely dumped a number in his Depends upon hearing the NCAA’s final ruling after he found out that he’ll never catch JoePa in the all-time wins column.
Karma’s a bitch, St. Booby.
March 6th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:
Seems they would only vacate the 2006 wins, not 2007 since the scandal supposedly went to the summer of 07. So that would be 7 wins off his total. Still doesn’t make up for the (bogus) wins he counts from Howard College (Samford), which wasn’t division I.
March 6th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
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freemichaelphelps says:
“Further, the institution’s records regarding all of the involved sports, as well as the records of the head coaches of those sports will reflect the vacated records and will be recorded in all publications in which these records are reported, including, but not limited to, institution media guides, recruiting material, electronic and digital media plus institution and NCAA archives.”
March 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
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I Love Turd says:
Oh shut up you pussies.
March 6th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
No one’s mentioned this man’s superb moniker yet?
March 6th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
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I Love Turd says:
Thank you, Orson.
I should credit Zack Galifianakis for that gem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2×0TumWdlhk
March 6th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:
That moniker represents the shit sandwich that FSU is being served today.
It was a nice helping of schadenfreude this afternoon for the rest of the college football universe.
March 6th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
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zzgator says:
I just wish that we could’ve somehow had the NCAA also force them to forfeit the 2003 UF game AND force ole T.K. to stop claiming victory in the Lane Fenner game.
And oh yeah…they should be forced to publicly apologize for trying to claim they invented Gatorade and also admit their actual founding date is still, in fact, 1857,
What tools.
March 6th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
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I Love Turd says:
Look, I love turd just as much as you do, but FSU didn’t get a shit sandwich. The only losers today were the FSU track team and sweet, old, adorable Bobby.
In fact, FSU might even come out on top here because Bobby is probably less inclined to stick around after this coming year.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
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Coop says:
ILT makes a very good point. If this does not encourage Bowden to hang them up, notwithstanding his patented Bear Bryant story, I do not know what will. I figure Florida fans would love for Bowden to continue coaching until the day he dies.
Maybe Jimbo Fisher will be mediocre or worse, but it seems like Florida fans would want to stick with the devil they know. Meyer seems to have Bowden’s FSU figured out.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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WhiteSpeedReceiver says:
Everything looks pretty close to the Minnesota hoops scandal: Maroon and gold uniforms and academic fraud. But the FSU fraud is far more widespread. So FSU got huge scholarship reductions and a long postseason ban, right?
Wha??? The NCAA is mad at FSU. If I were the Dapper Don at FAU, I’d be making sure there haven’t been anything that even resembles a violation right now. They’d probably get the death penalty.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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yoyofutbawl says:
26
Foot in mouth department, Part 1:
Saw an old business acquaintance of mine in N. Wilkesboro, NC 4-5 years ago and mentioned to him, “Harry, there’s this goofball kid on VH-1 who has this bizarre show and uses your last name as his stage name.”
“Yeah, I know. That’s my son.”
Oops.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
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Croc says:
New words for the “Tomahawk Chop” : “Weeeee’re all assholes …… on probation assholes”!
March 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
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hobeg8r says:
The Tallahassee Democrat is reporting that FSU will appeal any determination that vacates victories because the university did not KNOWINGLY play any players who cheated…and that dressing up (but not playing doesn’t count)…..in fact, according to the NCAA report, it is up to FSU to report back to the committee how many W’s should be taken away. My guess: FSU will claim 0…..and that Bobby will remain 1 behind JoePa
March 6th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
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CKGator says:
hobeg8er nailed it. They’ll appeal based on ‘we didn’t know’ and they won’t have to vacate any games. So the penalty is 1-2 scholarships per year. Wow. FSU gets away with it, yet again. Imagine that.
March 6th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
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Coop says:
@ 35
So, you are just mad that Florida State coaches have been smarter than Florida was under Charley Pell and Galen Hall? Pell, with a major assist from Danny Ford, got us caught for cheating, too, so I can relate.
I find it hilarious when the cheaters get mad at other schools for cheating better than them.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
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Gone Gator says:
The golf team?
Bowden now stays longer so he can make up for the lost wins. Really inspired penalty by King Solomon/Myles Brand. For a program built on the ashes of the UF probations of the 1980s, a just result.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
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JD says:
The NCAA really has gone soft if they can’t even bring themselves to ban FSU from postseason play. Even if, as we’ve seen the last few years, making sure the Noles don’t take a giant dump all over a championship game or bowl game is to everyone’s benefit.
And I’m just going to assume ILT was kidding back up at #13. That was not one of my better efforts.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
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psuphiman80 says:
If they even decide to appeal, which may be questionable due to the later timing of the release of the penalties, I doubt FSU would get all of the wins back. The NCAA is all about image and they won’t want to look like pansies backing down from a punishment.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
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AERose says:
As a Pac-10 fan who therefore has no dog in this fight, my main reaction is how lazy or stupid do your student athletes have to be to need to cheat on an online music course? Did they all just say to themselves, “hmm, I could study for five whole minutes a week and probably ace this class, orrrrrrr I could involve myself in a cheating scheme that dishonors myself and my school. Fuck it, that’s five minutes I could spend drinkin’.”?
(But they’s good keeds.)
March 6th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
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Duhhh says:
Bobby is celebrating. He will now be able to forfeit his arse-whuppings at the hands of the Gators in 2008, 2007 and 2006. I heard he will appeal, and attempt to forfeit the 2005 and 2004 Gator games as well.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/_Duhhh/bobbythehut.gif
March 6th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
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Charlie Ward's Trophy Case says:
Wow, if 14 wins are forfeited JoePa can actually retire SOON, keep his ego alive and save us from watching him deteriorate on the sideline . God bless the NCAA..they really do save lives!
March 7th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
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Bowden's Karma says:
Maybe Michael Gibson could write the appeal for him, after all he does owe him one.
March 8th, 2009 at 1:12 pm