How about probation....and a blowjob..

[The Seer]

As long as Nike/err Oregon is determining the punishment, why not axe for it?

http://www.katu.com/sports/ducks/NCAA-d ... 35931.html

[Left Seater]

Recruiting violations are the worst offense a program can commit. Nothing is going to help a program gain a competitive advantage more than buying the best players in High School to get them to go to the school.
The NCAA must begin looking at precedent in these procedures. To have any integrity, the NCAA must punish teams trying to gain a competitive advantage more harshly over teams that simply did not do a good enough job of policing payers that were already on their team.

Also, if a coach, position coach, recruiter, coordinator or head coach leaves a school before the student attends any classes on campus, the student should have a right to go somewhere else. Then if a position coach, assistant coach or head coach leaves while the student is playing for the school and the student is on schedule to earn their degree, that student should be able to leave that school to go to another.

Recruiting violations are the worst kind, yet you want to open recruiting to an annual affair for 50% of scholarship athletes. What?

Clearly the only thing binding those two posts are they somehow help USC or they hurt an opponent more. Feel free to grab a backbone and actually use it.

[Dinsdale]

Well gee, Toejam... one school cooperated as best they possibly could with the investigation. One school fought the NCAA tooth-and-nal every step of the way, including after the fact.

Of course the non-cooperating school is going to get it worse. Basic logic, dumbass.

Also, the extra-long investigation presumably hurt recruiting to a certain degree ("don't go there, they're getting sanctions"). PSU and Miami were taking up too much of the NCAA's time, which left Oregon to simmer on the back burner.

[Left Seater]

In the late 1990's the NCAA ruled that schools could not be held responsible for the actions of professional agents trying to contact players at the schools. Every school in the nation has parasitic agents or their runners trying to sign kids to pro contracts no matter how much the schools tried to block this. the NCAA recognized this, said that schools were powerless to prevent it and then turned around and gave USC the harshest penalties in decades because they were unable to do something the NCAA already ruled schools were powerless to prevent.

Wow, that is a huge stretch! LTS would be impressed.

What the NCAA said was that schools and athletes would not face penalties if the athletes reported the unwanted contact to the school compliance officer within a timely manner.

Example, Reggie Bush is eating dinner at Chilis just off of campus. A runner for an agent walks up and starts up a conversation. He leaves Reggie his card and offers to pay for dinner. The school would not face any discipline if Reggie let the compliance officer know of this unwanted meeting and turned over the business card and also declined the invite to purchase dinner. If Reggie accepts the meal or doesn't report the contact the school and athlete are both guilty of an infraction.

Let's also say that the runner then went to the waiter at this Chilis and paid Reggie and his buddies tab without their knowledge. When they were ready to leave they ask for their bill and the server says it is already taken care of. Reggie and his buddy still have to pay their tab regardless. The money paid by the runner can then be used as a tip for the server or the Chilis can divide it up among all staff, etc. But Reggie still has to pay for his table's meal. If he doesn't then both Reggie and USC committed a violation. Plus Reggie still has to report the unwanted contact.