re: If Auburn Was Innocent.....

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Let me give you another example. Let's say Mallett took $20K from an agent, before he got to AR and Arkansas knew nothing about it. Reports surfaced and his dad admitted to it. The NCAA advised that we sit him. We had done nothing wrong to this point, why wouldn't we sit him to not risk further penalties??

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The bolded part has not happened and does not typically happen as I understand the process

The NCAA apparently just tells the schools to use their best judgment on sitting or not sitting players (based on what the schools know)

The hotly contested issue RE: Auburn is whether they really think they are in the clear or the chance for a SEC or NC makes it worth the risk of significant NCAA penalty - which again would come down to who knows what and did what