[Husker] CU slush fund

[Mark Landin]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:52:16 -0700, Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net> wrote:
> As I understand the NCAA rules, the "death penalty" is reserved for programs
> found guilty of a second major offense within a certain period of time. I
> don't think CU has the first offense on the books yet. I have to wonder if
> Barnett can survive this. If nothing else, canning him might divert
> attention from the Ward Churchill fiasco.

I don't think we'll ever see the death penalty again, most especially
for "major" football programs. SMU has never recovered, and the NCAA
is not going to take the chance that somebody like a Arizona State or
a Colorado or a Virginia Tech is not going to be generating revenue
for them anymore. What you'll see is longer probations, longer
reductions in scholarship numbers, perhaps a "blacklisting" of
participating individuals, and perhaps a more burdensome reporting and
monitoring process inposed on chornic offenders, but that will be the
extent of it.