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The NCAA seems really mad at the Auburn thing. They have been cracking down lately after looking like fools during that.

They told off Gene Chizik and Auburn yesterday (literally):

"Julie Roe Lach, the N.C.A.A.’s vice president for enforcement, made a presentation to the group, which included every men’s basketball coach, football coach and athletic director in the conference. When she opened up the room for discussion, Auburn’s football coach, Gene Chizik, raised his hand first.

He peppered Roe Lach with a flurry of questions about the N.C.A.A.’s investigation into Cam Newton and why the N.C.A.A. had not publicly announced that the investigation was over. Chizik complained that the inquiry’s open-ended nature had hurt Auburn’s recruiting and he followed up at least three times, leading to a testy exchange.

“You’ll know when we’re finished,” Roe Lach told Chizik, according to several coaches who were at the meeting. “And we’re not finished.”"

No, but he's a good coach. Got Ga. Tech a BCS bowl.

Announcement moved to 3PM.

If there are new allegations, this could be bad for the Rambling Wreck, as I believe they are still on probation.

I doubt the Death Penalty would ever be used again, but Ga Tech has a very recent history of nefarious activity...they claim they merely were "misapplying" eligibility rules. The NCAA has taken this excuse and has slapped them on the wrist 2 or 3 times in the last decade.

I agree. Whenever a school is under investigation, someone on here calls for the Death Penalty. Just getting it out of the way.

From what has been made public, tOSU stuff isn't in the same galaxy as SMU.

No, it's not, that why a watered down version should be applied. They could never cancel a BCS AQ schools media or eliminate the program/season.

Not necessarily for OSU, but I'd like to see some punishments with teeth.

But they could ban them from National TV appearances, i.e. they can only be on regional coverage or in the case of OSU, the Big Ten Network.

I'd like to see the NCAA really take away scholarships. Like cancel a whole class for a school.

Conference Championship Game bans.

I'd like to see the NCAA suspend players/coaches during investigations if the evidence warrants it. They can do that, they just choose not to.

Large program fines - basically make it too expensive to cheat.

There has to be some deterrent to cheating, and there really isn't right now. That's the major problem with the NCAA. It's too beneficial to cheat.

The OSU stuff is nowhere near the SMU situation. Not even close.

You obviously aren't a history student. The implementation of the so called "death penalty" would be disasterous for the conference as a whole. All of the other conference teams would suffer. Remember the South West Conference? Of course you don't, and one of the principal reasons why it no longer exists is due to the imposition of the "death penalty" upon SMU.

SMU's violations were agregiousl and involved the direct payment of many $$$$'s to players and recruits by SMU alumns. The coaching staff and the AD knew it was happening and encouraged the payments, hence the lack of instituional control violaiton ruling. There has been no evidence that Tressell knew of the selling by the eplayers until told by the lawyer/former player. Tressell didn't pass along that information to his superior and hence the "lack of institutional control" violation does not appear to be present in this instance

Wait until someone from the current crop of pissed off college students makes it to an administrative role within the NCAA

Why even mention death penalty?? Water down or lukewarm version.