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NCAA HANDS USC TICKING PACKAGE, LEAVES

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Over twenty scholarships, a two year bowl ban, and additional penalties to come when the full report is released tomorrow: USC has received the most severe punishment handed down by the NCAA since the 2002 Alabama ruling. BUT MMM THESE DONUTS ARE DELICIOUS UP HERE IN SEATTLE! OMG MAPLE BARS! I LOVE MAPLE BARS!!! 

(It's 1:50 a.m. here on the East Coast. When we wake up we're sure the Big East will have somehow conned Notre Dame into joining the conference and the SEC will have expanded to include Texas A&M and Boise State, but a man has to sleep sometime. Unless you're Pete Carroll, of course, or Lane Kiffin, last seen frantically negotiating for the Cleveland Cavaliers head coaching job.) 

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Get used to staying up late, Orson.

Two years from now, all the good football games will start at this time.

The U of O: Where idle hands are the devil's workshop.

by ProbablyMonty on Jun 10, 2010 2:05 AM EDT reply actions  

9 p.m. Hawaii time? We can only hope.

by Alaska Hokie on Jun 10, 2010 2:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

So the Pac-16 will go from two to one premier program

before they play their first conference game? Get ready to welcome your new Burnt Orange overlords.

by GwinnettGamecock on Jun 10, 2010 2:17 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

We Ducks are already making plans about kvetching about how Texas is ruining the conference and blah blah revenue sharing. And then, with little warning, we’ll join the Big 10. It’ll be great.

The U of O: Where idle hands are the devil's workshop.

by ProbablyMonty on Jun 10, 2010 2:20 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Our arms are open

to our future brethren in Eugene.

by DanF5 on Jun 10, 2010 8:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

That's not going to happen

because Larry Scott is not Dan Beebe. Unless you think Larry Scott is going to allow USC to start issuing ultimatums, in which case we welcome you to the annual competition for the Big Integer West Division.

"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther

by Go Big Rev on Jun 10, 2010 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions  

Absolutely

and, after the Huskers destroy the B10, you will get your all-BXII Rose Bowl.

Beebe/crazy like a fox.

"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"

by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 10, 2010 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions  

This is too good...

“Henderson also thought it was interesting that U.S.C. would appear before the N.C.A.A.’s committee on infractions from Feb. 19-21 because Seantrel’s two sisters have birthdays on Feb. 20 and Feb. 21.

‘It’s just a lot," he said. "It kind of seems like fate to a certain extent.’"

by Tubby Sweetbundle on Jun 10, 2010 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions  

God

That photo will be haunting people who care about SC tomorrow.

“Hi.
….
Yeah. I know.
….
That sucks.
…Mmm, Donuts.”

by blackertai on Jun 10, 2010 2:08 AM EDT reply actions  

Pete Carroll:

20 scholarships? Man that su…. ohh man, you HAVE to try one of these. They are just.. mmmhhh… now what were you saying? Something about a bowl ban?

Fight on, fight on, fight on men! Remember the Rose Bowl, we’ll win then.

by Bozeman on Jun 10, 2010 2:21 AM EDT up reply actions  

Brian Kelly says no Spicy Sea Nuggets.

by Ancient Chinese Secret on Jun 10, 2010 2:09 AM EDT reply actions   1 recs

And USC will still stuff Notre Dame

Los Angeles is like Manchester. There is a red team that wins championships and a blue team that doesn't.

by oc phil on Jun 10, 2010 3:12 AM EDT up reply actions  

beat me to it. well done

Eat what the monkey eats, then eat the monkey. -U.S. Navy survival guidance

by psudrozz on Jun 10, 2010 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions  

Hurrah!

All important news should be released in prime time for Alaska, because the world should revolve around me.

by Alaska Hokie on Jun 10, 2010 2:16 AM EDT reply actions   2 recs

Win Forever, Pete

At least USC hired a couple of real character guys in Lane Kiffin and Ed Orgeron to clean up the mess

by BillyZoom on Jun 10, 2010 2:32 AM EDT reply actions  

This could be fun
Limited recruiting contacts, probation and forfeiture of victories are also among the penalties regarded as possibly in play.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Kiffin and Orgeron and the words “Limited recruiting contacts” equal sitcom quality hijinx.

It never gets to be easy

by chitownhawkeye on Jun 10, 2010 8:23 AM EDT up reply actions  

Great Day.

Enjoy Kiffin… Knoxville doesn’t look so bad right about now eh??? Hahahahaha!!!

by ExpatVol on Jun 10, 2010 4:29 AM EDT reply actions  

I wonder if

Kiffykins’s “dream” sexual experience is having a splintery, unlubricated nightstick shoved up violently up his rectum.

Vandy football - challenging the sanity of even the most stoic of philosophers

by Epictetus on Jun 10, 2010 5:55 AM EDT up reply actions  

i gotta say...

as an alabama fan i don’t really have much a feeling of chadenfreude about this as honest-to-god relief that we aren’t going through this whole ugly mess again ourselves. yeah, there’s a bit of excitement at having a shot at getting this little bit of business sorted out but this really isn’t something you wish on your worst enemy. it’s a disaster for the sport as a whole.

Roll 'Bama Roll: The Champagne of 'Bama Blogs.

by kleph on Jun 10, 2010 7:27 AM EDT reply actions  

Technically,

Since the Trojans had to vacate all 2004 wins, I think you’ve already tied them.

You also have to deal with the Auburn fans. Either they are the national champs, or the title went to an 0-13 team.

by GwinnettGamecock on Jun 10, 2010 9:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

nah, if USC has to forfeit then that means Oklahoma won the BCS game. They’ll be BCS champions.

What you're seeing is team spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.

-Hank Hill

by Zoltar on Jun 10, 2010 9:11 AM EDT up reply actions  

Better than a 55-19 asswhipping, though, surely?

"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"

by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 10, 2010 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions  

I was at that "game"...

championship teams don’t play like that.

pass the trophy to someone who cares. (notice I didn’t say to someone who deserves it)

by CincySooner on Jun 10, 2010 10:52 AM EDT up reply actions  

Auburn will take you up on that...

"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"

by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 10, 2010 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions  

Quoth the Fro:

DO NOT WANT

I'm afraid I have no choice but to sell you all for scientific experiments.

by boddagettaflyer on Jun 10, 2010 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions  

Or...

We’ll just wait to see what the BCS, which is totally separate from the NCAA, ends up doing and whether they award it to us, to OK or just leave it blank. We can just use the same criteria the school up the road uses and claim the title anyway.

by PalmettoTiger on Jun 10, 2010 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions  

Or...

…USC’s championship will simply be “asterisked.”

Yes, I live in Starkville...WHO did I piss off in a past life?

by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Jun 10, 2010 9:47 AM EDT up reply actions  

Nah, the Auburn '04 team will give it to Alabama instead

Might as well. Then they can boast an even 50% rate of earned/claimed MNCs.

by sullivan013 on Jun 10, 2010 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions  

re-do your math

8 AP titles

Fumbles. It was always Fumbles

by DocFumbles on Jun 10, 2010 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions  

No, it's not

Just because you feel some sympathy for Southern Cal since you both are now established cheaters who were caught and punished is no reason for the hyperbole of “disaster for the sport as a whole”. Put down the crack pipe and take a couple of breaths. Then learn how to spell.

You’re from the ‘champagne’ of Bama blogs but can’t spell schadenfraude. Alabama educational jokes write themselves.

by LSUJOSHUA on Jun 10, 2010 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions  

without commenting on your vitriole

suffice it to say that a down period for one of the traditional powers is always a loss for the sport: It’s fun to laugh at ND for sucking at life, but was the sport better for it, especially in NYC and the Second City? No. Ditto Texas’s and OU’s down periods were not good for the flyover. Do you think Michigan’s struggles are good for the Rust Belt? Negative. Alabama’s struggles were not good for the SEC, either.

And, USCs will not be good for the P10, and by extension, the sport.

"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"

by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 10, 2010 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

your argument would make sense if there was any truth to it

Always a loss? College football has and is only getting more popular and making more money with each passing year. And this is while your dark ages of Bama, ND and Michigan sucking and/or continuing to suck. There’s not one shred of sense or truth in what you’re arguing.

by LSUJOSHUA on Jun 10, 2010 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

I know, like and respect a great number of LSU alum, fans and supporters. As a group, they are some of the most gracious, cordial, and generally knowledgeable of the conference; that says a lot to have respect and like a fanbase, especially given that the rivalry is a heated one.

Alas, particularly on the “knowledgeable” bit, you do not qualify among their number. And, if you remove your head from its anal cavern, you will understand what Kleph’s point was, what my point is, and what anyone who observes the sport as a whole knows: It’s not beneficial for a major power to be down on the mat.

"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"

by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 10, 2010 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

And, you apparently started watching CFB in 2003...

the sport regained tremendous popularity with the return to elite status of some of it’s more prominent members: Texas, OU, OSU, USC, Michigan…even while ND and Alabama were floundering, it has merely continued from that point.

"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"

by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 10, 2010 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

gawd you are dumb

CFB got bigger in the 80s when ND and Miami ruled the roost, even as UF, SC, and other big names you cite weren’t doing much. CFB got bigger in the 90s as UF rose and Bama fell. ND started to disappear along with Miami. Texas sucked. But there were teams that took their place and the sport grew in revenue and popularity. In the recent decade ND and Michigan have gone completely into the shitter. Texas has risen and so did SC along with a host of other teams. And guess what, CFB continued to grow.

The notion that CFB needs those names and can’t enjoy success without them is just. fucking. dumb. It holds no water whatsoever.

As for you in particular, you use your mouth prettier than a whore, but you’re still only sucking dicks with it.

Why am I trying to talk to a Bama fan?

by LSUJOSHUA on Jun 10, 2010 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

I will just answer you last question...

…because you wish to converse with a better class of people. ;)

Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs

by bamachine on Jun 10, 2010 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

Seriously, an LSU fan wants to run educational smack

Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs

by bamachine on Jun 10, 2010 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

You know, it's usually a good idea to check your own spelling

… when you bash another person for misspelling. (It’s “schadenfreude”.)

by SpartanDan on Jun 10, 2010 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

The NCAA went with the...

Revocation of all Del Taco line cutting priveleges, eh?

"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke

by MtnEer_in_SC on Jun 10, 2010 7:31 AM EDT reply actions  

Funny Title
NCAA HANDS USC TICKING PACKAGE, LEAVES

That’s funny right there…. :)

by Stanley Hammer on Jun 10, 2010 7:42 AM EDT reply actions  

So, tell me why Texas would leave the Big 12 to go to the headless Pac-10?

by Board Certified Scrotologist on Jun 10, 2010 7:50 AM EDT reply actions  

Their road to the Rose Bowl or BCSNCG just got easier would be one reason.

No Trojan horse in the way for about 5 years. Two on probation and 3 to recover.

by Crabapple Buck on Jun 10, 2010 8:13 AM EDT up reply actions  

Fortunately, heads regrow.

USC will be able to play in bowls again juuuuuust in time for Texas to stand in their way.

The U of O: Where idle hands are the devil's workshop.

by ProbablyMonty on Jun 10, 2010 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions  

NCAA to USC

Im in ur futbawl teem, steelin ur skolarships

by cjbama on Jun 10, 2010 8:04 AM EDT reply actions   1 recs

OR

All ur illegally gotten benefits are belong to us.

"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther

by Go Big Rev on Jun 10, 2010 8:34 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

That faint noise you just heard in the distance

was the entire state of Alabama collectively saying “Finally, someone else for a change”

by haybeav on Jun 10, 2010 8:52 AM EDT reply actions  

No one will like the result

1. This is bullshit! (USC-West supporters who think it’s way harsh and the NCAA would never treat the SEC like this)
2. This is bullshit! (Almost everyone else. They’ll think it’s too light and proves the NCAA will never do anything to the SEC, specifically UF)

If you go far enough, you’ll meet yourself.

by PalmettoTiger on Jun 10, 2010 9:01 AM EDT reply actions  

Your right the NCAA would never touch UF...

except that time in 1985 when they basically handed down the exact same punishment to them. Thanks to Charlie Pells 107 violations we received a two year tv and bowl ban and a loss of 20 scholarships…

But your still right, they’d never do that to UF.

by Boozy McHound on Jun 10, 2010 9:11 AM EDT up reply actions  

well, that was before UF became UF. I don’t buy PalmettoTiger’s statement either, but things were much different in 85.

What you're seeing is team spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.

-Hank Hill

by Zoltar on Jun 10, 2010 9:14 AM EDT up reply actions  

Not really my point

It doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not so stop trying to mess up their good conspiracy theory with pesky inconvenient facts. Read around on Rivals and you’ll find plenty of posts by people who are convinced UF is cheating because of the way recruiting went this year or for other reasons. You’ve got people who think UF (or the whole SEC!) ought to be in the gunsight next but nothing’ll happen because they (we) are currently too high profile.

That’s all. I’m thinking they’re delusional but YMMV, of course.

by PalmettoTiger on Jun 10, 2010 9:35 AM EDT up reply actions  

I just realized something

(and by “just realized”, I mean recognized it as soon as I read the article). Isn’t Southern Cal the second program to be punished for flagrant cheating that led directly to a national title. Hmmmm, now who was that other team? PalmettoTiger, can you help me with this?

by GwinnettGamecock on Jun 10, 2010 9:19 AM EDT up reply actions  

I believe

you are referring to that school up the road.

by PalmettoTiger on Jun 10, 2010 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions  

BZZZZ...wrong

Langham signed the supposed contract in the ’93 Sugar Bowl after parties.

Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs

by bamachine on Jun 10, 2010 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

I thought he meant up the road for me

and anyone living in the Palmetto State. In which case, he was right.

Danny Ford and Clemson, come on down!

by GwinnettGamecock on Jun 10, 2010 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

Winnah!

Though, in fairness, it’s easy to see how that’d be confusing since “That school up the road” is a reverse of the (in)famous “School down the road”.

by PalmettoTiger on Jun 11, 2010 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions  

Pete-

I hate to tell you this, but the donuts, along with the frogurt, are cursed.

by blanx73 on Jun 10, 2010 9:06 AM EDT reply actions  

And it contains sodium benzoate.

by blanx73 on Jun 10, 2010 9:43 AM EDT up reply actions  

Also bad.

I just picture Pete responding to questioning:

“The University of Southern California, you say? I’m unfamiliar with the place. Why are they in the news?”

by blanx73 on Jun 10, 2010 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions  

It's like he sold them a lemon...

“….probation? Nah, never had any trouble like that out of it when I had it… that’s so weird…..”

by Stefanie Michelle Bowen on Jun 10, 2010 9:53 AM EDT reply actions  

so they are going to take away reggie bush’s heisman, right?

to me, that would be just a little justice.

Eat what the monkey eats, then eat the monkey. -U.S. Navy survival guidance

by psudrozz on Jun 10, 2010 9:57 AM EDT reply actions  

A JOKE

Given that the Heisman Trust won’t take away a trophy if you cut off the heads of your wife and her acquaintance, it would be a joke to do so for this.

by SanDiegoDevil on Jun 10, 2010 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

when bush was at usc...

he had the elusiveness of a white bronco

by Cocky Scar on Jun 10, 2010 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

OJ’s failure at life didn’t occur while he was playing college football. What he did after is not especially relevant to an award for excellence at college football. Bush’s transgressions, while undoubtedly less severe in the grand scheme of things, bear directly on his eligibility for college football (and therefore the Heisman). So I wouldn’t consider it ridiculous.

by SpartanDan on Jun 10, 2010 9:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

Calipari and Carroll.....

…..are like those “Traveler” guys who give you a great deal on blacktopping your driveway, but a couple days after they’re done, you realize you just paid a grand for some buckets of black paint.

by Spartan D on Jun 10, 2010 9:59 AM EDT reply actions  

you have Travelers in Michigan?

I don’t understand them… they all live together and have arranged marriages for their kids at 8 years old…

by Cocky Scar on Jun 10, 2010 10:03 AM EDT up reply actions  

except that Calipari has never been formally investigated by the NCAA

The UMass and Memphis problems were treated as things he didn’t know, nor could he have known.

details…

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by Old South on Jun 10, 2010 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

Lou Holtz has never gotten the hammer either.

That doesn’t mean he’s not the dirtiest fucker to coach college football in the last 30 years.

Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.

by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Jun 10, 2010 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

Lou Holtz is....

slicker than a Baptist evangelist coated in Teflon.

by Stubob72556 on Jun 10, 2010 1:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

more like that guy at the senior center with the great deal on aluminum siding...

"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"

by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 10, 2010 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions  

I didn't know Travelers lived in Michigan either

I thought they were a Southern thing. Did you get this off The Riches?

by GwinnettGamecock on Jun 10, 2010 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions  

This is Lane Kiffin's voice mail, I'm out recruiting a 10 year old pee wee LB. Please leave

..a message"

Message 1: “Lane , this is Dennis Franchione. TAG! YOU’RE IT, MOTHERFU” -beeeep.

Message 2: “Kiffin, you poor schmuck, this is Derek Dooley..bwa-ha-ha ha ha ha!”/ uproarious laughter in background./ “It’s going to be tough getting through this NCAA punishment, but it’s a two step process: 1. Eat shit. 2 DIE.” /more laughter.

Message 3: “Hey, Lane, this is Pete. About that NCAA thing….I meant to tell ya 4 months ago, I ‘m pretty sure I took care of it with the shredder, but check to see if there’s a box in the annex basement labeled ‘Illegal Bennies for R.Bush’. As long as that box is gone, you’re good to go.”

by Dick H on Jun 10, 2010 10:30 AM EDT reply actions   2 recs

I always knew something was amiss with Smokey

"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"

by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 10, 2010 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

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