re: Johnny Manziel Suspended First Half Against Rice (NOW OFFICIAL)

So the Old Saying has to be changed now.

"Cheaters do prosper !"

I can hear the collective rustling of jimmies in LA all the way in south Texas.

Aggies

Ointments. They've got solutions for your butthurt.


Want to talk about players assaulting the general population now?

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based on information provided by Manziel, that did not happen in this case.

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based on currently available information and statements by Manziel.

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Like I say, the NCAA is not a dispenser of justice, its an economic cartel whose purpose is to protect the collective economic interests of the NCAA's schools and their business partners. And in this case there is a ton of money to be made by having the Heisman winner on the field, TV ratings etc to contemplate for his games vs Bama and LSU etc. In such cases, the NCAA will choose to believe the "information available" or "statements made" by whatever party is saying the things that best protect the economic interests of the NCAA.

On the other hand, in the Frank Haith situation, we've been waiting two years because the NCAA said it "didn't believe" the statements made by Haith even though it also acknowledged that there was no tangible evidence of wrongdoing on his part either. But the economic impact was not nearly the same, and the lead investigator and head of the NCAA enforcement division are both graduates of Mizzou's arch rival kansas, so in a stunner, the case has dragged on two years with no ruling and instead just letting the "Haith is under investigation" tag be used by other coaches and schools to recruit against us - for things that didn't even happen at Mizzou but at another institution. But yet when Manziel tells the NCAA that when he sat in his hotel room and signed autographs for hours on end it was done out of the goodness of his heart, the NCAA chooses to believe these statements and proclaim "nothing happened in this case." frick sake, just have one standard please and stick with it, is that too much to ask? Yes, of course it is when you're talking economic cartels. The facts of the situation and the truth and the just decision mean nothing at all here. Which is fine, but just don't act like there's anything other than that in play here, Ags. That's all this is.

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Want to talk about players assaulting the general population now?

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Yeah sure. 150 yds and 2 tds when we donkey punch yall

We have proof of an assault. You have suspicion of a payment.

You can prove nothing but your butthurt. Remember, the NCAA doesn't need incontrovertible proof. It's not a courtroom situation. The preponderance of evidence suggests there was no payment.

Yet you wail from your computer keyboard and question the investigators who had access to more information that you will ever have.

Dismissed

Doesn't matter what I think. You just don't get that its the same for you.

Cajun revolution you clearly don't understand how a burden of proof works, there is ZERO evidence that he took any money, ZERO. It doesn't matter what you or anyone else thinks happens, that's not how it works. It's about what you can prove, it is unreal how hard it is for some of you people to understand this very basic concept

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JOINT STATEMENT FROM TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY & THE NCAA

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Thanks for this. I admit I've been crossing my fingers while the only source was "a source".