Twitter blowing up abuot DJ Fluker in Yahoo Sports investigation...

Didn't he have the tweet before the draft about taking money and then said his account was hacked?

So Luther Davis was an LSU mole the whole time?

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If you can't stay off probation for more than 3 years then you're doing nothing but embarrassing the institution I received my degree from.

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Meh there is enough anti-NCAA steam that if they retroactively tried to do anything to us it could seriously backfire on the NCAA.

It really wouldn't surprise me if we're the ones that get hit with major sanctions.

forget miami and penn st. we got bama, again


so says the ncaa

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It really wouldn't surprise me if we're the ones that get hit with major sanctions.

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I could see this leading to the end of the NCAA more than to our dynasty

Everyone needs to read this Dan Wetzel article: LINK

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Here is the early prediction on what will come – at least in terms of NCAA sanctions – from the accompanying Yahoo Sports story detailing how Luther Davis went from starting Alabama defensive end to middle man possibly funneling money from agents and financial planners to a handful of top SEC players, including some in Tuscaloosa.

Nothing.

Or, at least, not much.

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And that's fine. The NCAA always looks foolish when it tries to retroactively strip championships – in this case, Alabama's.

It's looks even worse when it argues that something horrible occurred if a kid such as D.J. Fluker, who grew up poor even before Hurricane Katrina left him homeless and sleeping in a car with four others, actually accepted some of the money that just about everyone was willing to throw at him because they've defined his worth as far greater than just tuition, room and board.

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This is major college athletics. Not those public-relations commercials during the games with cinematography, soaring music and canned concepts propping up "amateurism" as anything more than a tax dodge. And this is the river of underground money that flows through major college football. It's everywhere. It's undeniable. It's uncontainable.

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The real scandals don't involve money; they involve academics or drug-test fixing or other real-world issues. Systematic academic fraud – one that keeps borderline students uneducated – is what should generate the harshest penalties, the loudest condemnations and the most aggressive NCAA investigations. These are, after all, supposed to be institutions of higher learning. And the schools are very capable of looking into this stuff themselves.

That isn't how the system is set up though.

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The core problem isn't the breaking of the rules, it's the rules that are being broken.

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Couldn't agree with that more. The NCAA is a joke of an organization and if this is what it takes to bring about its demise then that's great. If a brilliant graduate student comes up with some sort of drug or invention or whatever that a huge multinational conglomerate is willing to pay him millions of dollars for the rights to, it's perfectly fine and does nothing to jeopardize his status as a student or his efforts at obtaining a degree. Dez Bryant get to have dinner with his childhood idol Deion Sanders, who insists on paying for it, and he is declared ineligible. Ohio State players barter for tattoos with trophies they earned through their play on the field, and they are declared ineligible. It's a ridiculous double standard. I especially find it inappropriate to hold some naive, impoverished 21 year old to a higher standard of ethics than a grown man who is doing everything in his power to take advantage of the 21 year old's ignorance and poverty.

Miami seems to have done alot worse things, and hardly any punishment. Ohio St lied to the NCAA from the players to the President, and they allowed the guilty players to play a Bowl game. If Bama suffers severe sanctions, after a proper investigation is done, I will be surprised and just a little more than pissed.

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Luther Davis personally handing over this information to Yahoo Sports.

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Davis has all the signs of being a rat pointing his direction. If DJ sticks to the "G" code and keeps his mouth shut, Bama might get off with only a pat on the arse.

If they get slammed with sanctions and 2011 and 2012 vacated, I'm done with college football. So tired of all the selfishness, from boosters, agents and players. I was already starting to hate it.

So disappointed. frick Fluker and Davis.