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But I think there is what, a 4 year statute of limitations? If so, then all the illegal activity done in the mid 2000's may escape scrunity. In that senario, they appear to avoid a hell of a lot of damage, but still enough to probably level the most severe penalties we have seen since SMU, but will stop short of the death penalty. The fact that so much of the evidence can easily be substantiated is really scary for Miami.

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There is, unless the same infractions go back further (as the story points out). Which in this case they do. So the NCAA can basically go back as far as they can find evidence.

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Miami was already on probation during this time, for being a repeat violator. Basically any major infractions that happened between 2003 and 2008 would be repeat violator status and anything between 2003 and 2005 would have been while still on probation... should the NCAA decide to connect dots back that far.

You're right, Texas is great. Invite them to your conference and keep them far away from ours.

Please,

(signed everyone that's ever been in a conference with Texas)

I imagine it had to do with the BCS, TV, and Texas's population. Same things that drive expansion now, just not nearly as much money involved.

Nebraska also didn't control the old big 8 like Texas does the big 12 now. So it wasn't really in a position to control switching the big 8 to the big 12.

Yeah, it was a big mistake on everyone's part looking back. Especially the northern big 8 schools. It's not fun being in a conference where you either give Texas whatever they want or hope maybe the big east bails you out when Texas decides they can get a bigger better deal elsewhere if you don't.

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Exactly. Not a peep out of 'em till now that their $$$ going straight down the drain.

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This isn't exactly true, Texas didn't have the LHN last year though so the spin machine in Bristol wasn't in on that one, with the exception of the big 12 blog at times.

But there were plenty of big 12 columnists across the remaining states happy to work as Texas's mouth piece along with their press secretary Chip Brown doing his daily briefings on whatever agenda item Austin wanted out in the press that day.

So it's not like we walked away with no negative press. It's just that people realize that most of it traces back to being typical ut bullcrap and gets purged from a rational persons brain immediately after reading.

Much like this will, unfortunately, because its something that really should be addressed about espn's "reporting".

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Texas will ultimately tuck its tail and go to the big 10.

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Probably not until a failed attempt at independence forces them to drop all ties with ESPN and beg for admittance into a conference without a list of demands.

Or so we can all hope. It's far more likely they work out a compromise with the PAC.

pretty sure a conference already tried the 20 team thing and it didn't work so well... Which is why the accepted golden number seems to be 16.

It's hard to remember who with all the conference stuff going on.

I don't know how anyone could say that luck isn't part of what Miles brings at this point. That's not an insult, he's just won more then his share of would be losses by the skin of his teeth luck at this point. It's exciting.

If some of his luck would have rubbed off on Bo, Nebraska wouldn't have lost 2 championships by 4 points or at :01 seconds. Hell if luck meant being the team winning games like: LINK I'd take luck every day. Why on earth would you take offense to that?

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Aggie is convinced they will take all the 4*s and 5*s from Texas and steamroll the SEC.

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No they aren't, they are probably a little overly-optimistic about where they'd fit in a new league, but who wouldn't be.

If they are convinced of anything it seems to be that dealing with Texas + Espn doing whatever the hell they think is good for Texas/LHN at the expense of the entire conference is making an already bad situation worse, and it's time to get the hell out while they have options.

and lol at the blog, if anyone actually takes you seriously all they need to do to realize just how incredibly misinformed you are is load that link up and read a few paragraphs.

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FWIW, I believe Ziemba


Ziemba knows of no payments


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I do too, but there is no reason he would have any knowledge of anything going on. Wouldn't the first thing in a p4p scheme be basically limiting knowledge of it to those directly involved and trying to keep everyone else from seeing anything? If you have a recruit of two alumni and hes willing to commit for free why on earth does he think he'd see anything or get offered anything without asking for it? Former players not seeing it certainly doesn't disprove any allegations.

I think its become fairly obvious over the last 30 years that the whole recruiting system in college athletics for the money sports is crooked as hell. The amount of money skyrocketing over the last 30-40 years likely has only made it continue to be even more prevalent especially when we are talking about kids that academically would NEVER be accepted to most these universities. Many aren't looking for an education, they are forced into attending college because its the step between high-school to their dreams of being in the NFL or NBA. The money involved in the revenue sports has turned them into basically the NFL and NBA minor leagues. It's been embarrassing for individual schools blatantly disregarding rules before, but now its to the point where it is embarrassing for the NCAA as a whole. We're looking at probably losing the second national champion in 10 years (and we'd be looking at that even if Oregon would have won).

At some point its got to come to a head somewhere.

It'll probably end up with Auburn being a sacrificial lamb to so the people at the top to keep getting their cut of the money for as long as they can. Much like it will with the fiesta bowl getting thrown under the bus while the rest of the bowls try and deflect anyone's gaze from looking in their collective closets.

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