re: Manziel recommendation from NCAA on Wednesday

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To blatantly ignoring the recommendation? Sanctions. Probation. Bowl bans. Scholarship losses.

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Ignoring the recommendations means nothing if the NCAA doesn't have some new information fall into their lap. Ignoring the recommendation is essentially calling their powerless bluff and hoping there is nothing else out there.

The very fact that the NCAA is making recommendations reveals how little they have. If they had solid evidence, it wouldn't be a "recommendation". This is a case of the NCAA, and everyone else, knowing he likely did something wrong. They have no tangible evidence though and thus are going to probably say "Hey, sit him for a game or two and this all goes away. Play him and we'll hold out hoping to find something else and then bury him." Calling their bluff will depend entirely on what the internal investigation turned up. If A&M truly believes nothing else is out there, he'll play and there isn't a GD thing the NCAA will do about it.