[personal] Re: [Husker] Oklahoma forfeits 2005 football season; NU went 9-3?

[Skylar Dodds]

Bob,

I think in some cases the team can be fined, but you're right, as far as TV
or wins or playoffs the team doesn't suffer.

I understand what you're saying and don't totally disagree, but college is a
little different for two reasons:

1) The universities are asked to police it's students and are therefore
"somewhat" (I use that very loosely) responsible for what the players do.
2) I'm not a big fan of taking away wins, but as a method to 'push' the
Universities to police themselves, I really like the TV rights or bowl
rights taken away as well as scholarships.  The first two hit the University
where it hurts most, the pocket book.  BIG TIME.  Money is the driving force
behind football programs and it would get a Universities attention if that
pool was greatly reduced and I would think, action would follow.

That being said, I feel terrible for the guy that worked his butt off in HS
to get a scholarship to his favorite school and then suffer because some
dope on his team was making $70k a year for a 5-hour a week snooze job at a
car dealership.  That guy didn't do anything wrong and yet he's being
punished.

I just don't know how to make the Universities listen outside of that.  In
like TV's example, a fine would have about something to the tune of what,
$10 mil a year to be equivalent.  Even then, it doesn't impact the
university as much because losing TV rights because that also limits
exposure which also limits athletes coming to your program and limits
merchandise sales and so on...

It's a difficult question Bob, and to be frank, I have no idea what the
right answer would be.  I just like that when the infraction is severe
enough, the University suffers enough to make sure it doesn't happen again.

--
Skylar
mailto:sklarbodds at cox.net


-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Bob Beach
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 4:22 PM
To: Husker List
Subject: [personal] Re: [Husker] Oklahoma forfeits 2005 football season; NU
went 9-3?

Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> As punishment for the Bomar car dealership case,
> Oklahoma is forfeiting the entire 2005 season.  They
> also will have probation extended to 2010, and will
> have recruiting restrictions imposed.



     I hold no love lost for the Sooners but I still don't like the way the
NCAA handles violations.  I am not saying I have a better way but sometimes
it seems so unfair.  Many times teams/universities are punished a few years
after the fact when the personalities involved may not even be around any
more.  That is true of both players and coaches.  The other thing is if one
and only one assistant coach is caught in violation the whole team is
punished.  In pro sports it is not that way.  The alleged offender(s) are
the ones punished and that is it.  But in no sense does a team have to give
up wins, playoff appearances, and etc.


Bob Beach


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