[Husker] Armen Keteyian book on Husker football

[Mark Landin]

Former OSU coach Pat Jones is on sport talk radio every weekday afternoon
here in Tulsa. He says there are three major cateegories of NCAA violations,
listed in order of decreasing severity:
1. Academic fraud
2. Recruiting violations
3. Improper benefits

And of course, overarching all of that, is lying to the NCAA about any of
those.

UNL has, to my knowledge, never had anything related to 1 or 2, and the FB
program has only had very minor and isolated dealings with #3. In any case
they've always been forthright and not lied.

USC, on the other hand, had major #3's, and some #2 and #1 in the basketball
program. Plus lying.

tOSU's recent problems are all #3 + lying.

Auburn/Cam Newton was #2 + lying, although nothing was ever proven.

(Note that player criminal behavior is not on that list. The institutions
and legal system worry about those. The NCAA worries about competive
misconduct by on on behalf of the institution.)

Jones recently said "I know stuff about this Ohio State thing that you
wouldn't believe and that I really can't go into here. Let's just say
there's a lot more gonna come out."





On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com> wrote:

> > Has anyone read this book about Husker Football?
> http://www.amazon.com/Big-Red-Confidential-Nebraska-Football/dp/0809245809
> > I have a buddy who is a die hard USC fan and he's SUPER bitter about how
> hard the NCAA has come down on USC. So of course, he has to try to go after
> everybody else's program...including the Huskers.
> > Has anyone read this book? Is there any validity to the claims?
>
> That book was published in 1989 so any information in it is at least 22
> years old.
>
> NCAA rules were different back then.  Many things that were legal then
> are not legal now, other things that were minor violations then are
> major violations now.
>
> I don't think there have been any major NCAA violations in the Nebraska
> football program, though there have been some minor and incidental ones.
> I think the only major violation at UNL was in another sport.  (Wrestling,
> as I recall.)
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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