Heh. Problems for Big Red Imports related to OU...

[the_ouskull]

So does this mean that Bomar will get a final check from that place...? 'cause I'd like to hand-deliver that one.

the_ouskull

[orcinus]

Nice.

[Vito Corleone]

Ghosts of Bomar, Quinn still linger
By DAVE SITTLER World Sports Writer
8/23/2006

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It's a fact that quarterback Rhett Bomar and offensive guard J.D. Quinn are long gone from Oklahoma's football team. But then again, it isn't.

The ghosts of Bomar and Quinn and their misdeeds are going to linger a while around OU. The trick is figuring out just how long it will take coach Bob Stoops to expunge all the harm the two did when they accepted money for work not performed at a Norman car dealership.

Evidence of the NCAA violation that still grips the Sooner program was revealed Tuesday. OU officials released 528 pages of documents they had sent to the NCAA on Monday. The documents detail their preliminary report into the Bomar-Quinn situation.

Stoops took a gigantic first step earlier this month toward cleaning up the mess when he permanently booted the two players off his team. But while it was drastic, will his action be enough to satisfy the NCAA?

That's the question no one can answer right now. And the longer the NCAA lets it loom over OU, the harder it becomes for Stoops to keep the Sooners at the elite level he's taken them to over the past seven seasons.

It's highly unlikely the NCAA will accept OU's report at face value and decide to immediately

hand down the punishment it decides fits this rule-breaking.

No, the NCAA will send its own team of investigators to town to snoop around. And going by the 528-page report OU put together, the snooping could last for months.

The best-case scenario is that the NCAA is so impressed with the work of OU's compliance office that it just double-checks the facts the school put together over a four-month investigation.

Then the NCAA must decide if it will summon Sooner officials to appear in front of its Infractions Committee. You remember that grim group, right? It's the same body that ordered OU to show up in Park City, Utah, in April to explain the 550 illegal phone calls made by former basketball coach Kelvin Sampson and his staff.

The probe into Sampson's cell phone transgressions dragged on for more than three years. The football situation certainly isn't expected to take that long, but it could last up to a year.

Kansas, for example, self-reported violations in its football program to the NCAA last summer. The Jayhawks didn't get their inquisition with the Infraction Committee until this month in Baltimore, and they are now awaiting the committee's final verdict.

The initial damage OU must deal with is the national publicity of the Bomar-Quinn scandal. Yesterday's release to the media of the preliminary report means the story will once again make national headlines, just like it did on Aug. 2 when Stoops confirmed the two players had been dismissed.

But if you think a few negative and sensationalized headlines hurt, wait until Stoops' peers get into the act. The smear campaign some coaches will unleash against OU via negative recruiting will be relentless.

Negative recruiting is a dirty game. But it isn't as dirty a little secret as some coaches would like it to be. It's a nationwide epidemic that's going to sweep through Norman in the next few months like the plague.

The NCAA may eventually decide that OU's swift and dramatic action in removing Bomar and Quinn from the team was sufficient. After all, NCAA president Myles Brand has already praised Stoops and OU when he said the school's "rapid response showed integrity."

But until the NCAA closes the Bomar-Quinn case, it's going to be open season on Stoops and the Sooners. Coaches will find a variety of crafty ways to suggest to potential recruits that they shouldn't sign with OU because the school's about to be slapped with a serious probation.

Stoops and his assistants have repeatedly demonstrated they can go head-to-head with any school and win their share of recruiting battles. Ironically, Bomar was once considered one of the top prospects the Sooners have signed since Stoops arrived in December 1998.

But the OU coaches will have to double their recruiting efforts unless the NCAA brings this situation to a quick resolution. And with the Sooners desperately in need of a big-time quarterback to fill the gaping hole left by Bomar, this is not the time to face the added burden of warding off negative recruiting.

The short-term effects have already been painful. And the Sooners' pain threshold could be severely tested if the losses start to mount during a demanding 12-game schedule that starts Sept. 2 against Alabama-Birmingham.

But it's the possible long-term ramifications in recruiting that should be of paramount concern to Stoops and the school. And the longer the NCAA lets this boiling investigation simmer, the scarier it gets for OU.

So while Bomar and Quinn are out of sight, it's a fact they certainly are not out of OU's mind.

[indyfrisco]

Vito,

Can we get a Cliffs Notes version? I'm too much into me wine to read all o dat

[RadioFan]

Good jorb, dumbasses-fake employment records that show kids working more than 40 hours per week and then forget to pay overtime on the fake hours...

I hope the labor commission nails these jackasses to the wall.

A car dealership on the "magnificent mile" screwing the public. Who'd have ever guessed?

[Vito Corleone]

Vito,

Can we get a Cliffs Notes version? I'm too much into me wine to read all o dat

Der foked

[Vito Corleone]

Now put the two reports together and you see the problem. The report says no smoking guns but spooner motors shows something a little different.