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

[Bob Beach]

Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net> wrote:

> This seems a bit "apples and oranges". None of the innocent players
> on the OU team has been dismissed from the team or lost his
> scholarship. Nor did I see anything in there about loss of TV
> appearances or bowl-game eligibility. 


     A lot of my comments were to NCAA sanctions and not necessarily specific to the Oklahoma situation.  No innocent players are ever dismissed from the team.  I don't know there is an analogy that exactly matches up with NCAA sanctions.  But, the point is NCAA sanctions always hit everyone and not just the perpetrators.



> If there is any unfairness here, it probably lies in the fact that
> OU is being punished for something (as Mark Landin noted) that goes
> on in a lot of places, but generally is ignored.



     Could be, but that is true of a lot of crime in the world today and again I was talking in general.  This Oklahoma thing didn't spur an opinion from me.  It just caused me to post what was already there.  I have felt this way for probably over 20 years about the way the NCAA handles its sanctions.


Bob Beach