re: Biggest bonehead move in the last 20 years for your program?

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How do you let the players become involved with, of all things, a text book scandal?? He got handed a shite sandwich, but you have to respect having the balls to step up.

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To be fair it's not like football was the only team doing it. I still don't get having to vacate wins over it. There was no competitive advantage gained by it. The NCAA even said all the books had either been returned or were paid for by the students, per the policy.

IIRC, there was supposed to be something in the software the SUPe store used that would have flagged that athletes were getting books for classes they were not enrolled in. I also believe the only reason it came to light is someone's GF worked at the SUPe store and when he broke up with her she blew the whistle on the whole thing.

For football it might have been allowing Kiffin to stay on staff after taking the FAU job. Maybe Saban should have just told him to go ahead and move on and have Sark coach both the Peach Bowl and CFPNCG that year.