re: Dye and Stallings owned Finebaum yesterday

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Eric Ramsey and 60 Minutes disagree.

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I wouldn't go there. Gene Jelks was paid more than Ramsey. A lot more. And bama got probation for it along with lots of other things during Stallings time.

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November 1992 — Gene Jelks tells a newspaper he got a $2,100 "signing bonus" when he committed to Alabama in 1985 and received money from coaches and boosters during his playing career, which ended with the 1989 season.

Jan. 1, 1993 — Alabama beats Miami (Fla.) 34-13 in the Sugar Bowl for the national championship, the school's 12th and most recent.

January 1993 — The morning after the Sugar Bowl, All-America defensive back Antonio Langham signs a napkin at a party that sports agent Darryl Dennis later says is a representation contract. Langham plays in all of the regular-season games in 1993 before being declared ineligible. The NCAA denies an appeal.

Aug. 2, 1995 — For violations tied to Jelks and Langham, the NCAA puts the program on three years' probation, bans it from a bowl for a year, cuts nearly half its scholarships over two years and says it must forfeit eight wins and a tie in which Langham played in 1993.

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bama is tired of getting its arse

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The NCAA seized upon the University of Alabama last week to explain anew a simple concept to its members: If you don't police yourself, the system will never work.

The Crimson Tide has won six Associated Press national championships and an NCAA-record 27 bowls. The university took as much pride in never having been on NCAA probation. That clean record dissolved in startling fashion last week when the Committee on Infractions gave Alabama penalties that stretched from the past through the present and into the future.

The Tide will be on probation for three years. There will be no bowl this year and no share of the Southeastern Conference post-season pool, which could cost the program as much as $1.1 million. The committee stripped 22 scholarships (13 in 1996-97 and nine in 1997-98) for freshmen and transfers and forced Alabama to forfeit eight regular-season victories and a tie in 1993. In that season, former All-America cornerback Antonio Langham played despite having signed with an agent.

That fact is not disputed by the university. Nor is the fact that former Alabama star Gene Jelks received improper loans from two boosters. Those two violations, relatively speaking, are pebbles on the NCAA scale of justice. Had Alabama been vigorous in unearthing what actually took place, the committee probably would have accepted the school's self-imposed scholarship reductions.

But the committee and university differed greatly on the interpretation of how the university handled its investigation of Langham. Where university officials pleaded stupidity, the committee saw coverup.

"This case demonstrates the consequences of a distressing failure of institutional control," says committee Chair David Swank, a University of Oklahoma law, professor.

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Bama boosters and attorneys help Ramsey to bring down AU and get AU on probation because bama is tired of getting its arse kicked.

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