re: Honest question re Ole Miss and NCAA....

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what good would a 1 year post season ban provide?

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Nothing, unless the team wins the conference or goes to a big bowl that year. Then it stings. The punishment is a good way to prevent a cheating program from benefitting from the current momentum before the other punishments decimate whatever they tried to build on top of cheating.

The main punishment is scholarship restrictions, or if the NCAA puts a show case on the coach forcing the program to fire him. All that separates programs in this sport are the coaches, so if you get your once in a lifetime coach and you are forced to fire him that is basically the modern death penalty.

Ole Miss knows that, which is why they aren't playing by the old rulebook. The old rulebook would have expected them to fire Freeze when they put out a voluntary punishment as a way to atone to the NCAA and hope to convince them to accept their suggestions for how to punish them. Ole Miss is kinda going "frick that, you are going to have to FORCE us to kill our program," which is very ballsy.

We will see how it plays out, up until now I have been rooting for them but I think it's probably better for the sport for them to get hammered. Whatever little parity Ole Miss is creating for itself goes away for every non blue blood ten fold if the Ohio Sts and Texass of the world think they can tell the NCAA to frick off too. It is the ultimate prisoner's dilemma.