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

[Mark Landin]

The philosophy of punishiing a group for the actions of a few are based on:

- trying to encourage the group to police itself. Think none of the
other players knew Bomar and Quinn weren't getting a sweet deal?
Neither the NCAA nor any instution has the means to police all the
activities of all the participants (athletes, staff, representatives,
etc), so by getting the collective group to realize that they ALL have
a stake in each person's conduct, the group itself acts as the first
line of enforcement. I believe military organizations are prone to use
the same techniques. for the same reasons.

- encouraging the institution to make their "best effort" to comply,
as the institution will become a less attractive suitor to prospective
student-athletes if the student-athlete knows that they may suffer the
fallout from something done in or by the institution. If an
institution gets a reputation of getting their collective teams
punished, one would think that the most talented recruits, who have
many options, would look negatively at such an institution and opt to
go elsewhere. This in turn would hurt that institution's recruiting,
reducing their ability to compete and win, an outcome any institution
would strive to avoid.

On 7/11/07, Bob Beach <baseballguy at neb.rr.com> wrote:
> Brown, Laura (LLU) <ldbrown at llu.edu> wrote:
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> > But the fact still is that it is usually the University that is
> > sited for lack of oversite.  We all know that OU has a reputation
> > for holding the reins rather loosely.  :)  Laura
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>     That certainly can happen and does but why do ALL the players, coaches, students, and fans have to suffer for the actions of what is usually a very small percentage?  We have all seen cases where a coaching staff is cited and the whole team goes on probation AFTER the coaching staff is no longer even there.  I certainly would hate to think, for example, if my sister would do something illegal and the whole family would have to pay for it even though we had nothing to do with it.  Another example is when I was in grade school about 100 years ago and the teacher would say "if anyone talks out of turn everyone is staying in for recess".  I never could figure out why I would have to pay the price for what someone else did.  I don't necessarily know the answers but it does seem highly unfair at this point.  I am certainly in agreement that Oklahoma has had its share of infractions but I still raise the questions.
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> Bob Beach
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