Pac-10 Commissioner Doesn't "Expect" NCAA To "Hammer" Southern Cal

PAC-10 has more to lose than the NCAA. We need to see the findings first and then speculate on the punishment. This guy is just trying to let the NCAA know that the PAC-10 is going to stick by its money-maker. As far as I’m concerned, you can take that SUC money and stick it where the sun don’t shine.

And if nothing happens to them, the NCAA is a joke for an organization and I would urge every school to do what SUC does because it’s obvious you can get away with cheating.

Like MexiBruin said, we have expected this for years. The NCAA has been looking for an excuse to not punish SC and they dragged their heels until the opportunity presented itself.

As we are all aware, SC punished the basketball program for the football program’s sins. The NCAA immediately jumped into action and concluded its investigation into the football program.

Larry Scott may be a horrible or great commissioner (I can’t pass judgment just yet), but I don’t think he is to blame for saying to the national media what we have known forever. The NCAA will not seriously punish SC so long as there is even a transparent and flimsy excuse for not doing so.

In my opinion, what we will be hearing from the committee is this: SC investigates and deals with its own athletic transgressions, just look at what the basketball team is going through. The committee talked with many people and Reggie Bush, Pete Carroll and the rest of the SC athletic department say that no one knew what was really going on (it is not likely that anyone else’s word will be given any weight since all non established SC characters in this story are criminals or just not credible). Had they known, they all would have taken swift steps to fix the problem, even if it meant hurting their national title hopes. Obviously, if anyone had known anything, it would have been reported and gone through the proper channels so that SC’s athletic department could properly deal with the offenders.

We know what’s coming. Everyone knows what’s coming. Why are we surprised that the PAC-10 commissioner knows what’s coming?

But even with this negative view of the entire process (and my firm belief that the NCAA sees short term money as more important than the integrity of their premier sport), I still hold out hope.

I hope I am wrong. I want to be wrong so bad it hurts. I just don’t think I am.

So far Bush and Mayo refused to talk to the NCAA investigators and they don’t have any power to force those crooks to cooperate with them. u$s is going to claim that they had no knowlege of any of these violations. So the NCAA has nothing. The Bush camp lost their bid to keep the abitration hearing private. That means everything is going to be public once the arbitration hearing starts. So if the NCAA is really interested in finding out the truth then they would have waited until after the Bush arbitration hearing to close their case but suprise, suprise, they closed their investigation shortly after Bush lost his bid to keep the arbitration hearing private. The NCAA already gave u$c their accusations. The meeting scheduled for later this month is for u$c to answer the NCAA’s accusation against them. After that it could be up to eight weeks before the NCAA decides what, if any, punishments will be. The most they’re gonna get is a little slap in the wrist.

“As for other topics, Cowherd (Colin Cowherd of ESPN) asked what it would mean for the conference if USC football got hammered by NCAA sanctions. Said Scott (Larry Scott, Pac-10 commissioner), ‘I don’t expect that.’”

It seems to me that the next question should have been, “Why don’t you expect that, Mr. Scott?” My guess is that the skilled reporter said something more like “Moving on, Mr. Commissioner, wasn’t it tragic about that terrible accident during the Olympics?”

Nothing will happen, in my opinion. In fact, UCLA might get sanctioned because of all the anti-ncaa statements here. And just$c*’s institutional arrogance will get even larger. They will add the ncaa police to the lapd as another owned entity.

I suspect that the Pac 10 commish knows of what he speaks. I was reading a discussion in the fishwrap this morning about recent penalties handed out by the NCAA, and they don’t really amount to much. The focus seems to be on forfeiting games with a few scholarship losses and some minor monetary penalties. Forfeiting games is sort of like trying to unring a bell – do we feel any better about our game against Memphis in the Final Fourt in which Memphis used an ineligible player once that came out? Meanwhile, Calapari gets to dash for the cash at Kentucky and is back to his old tricks there, I’m sure. The NCAA will probably make SC forfeit some games, maybe give up a few scholies and provide a few more wrist slaps. There will be no post-season bans for the football team. It’s really all a big joke, but the NCAA is itself an evil organization (IMO) that is set up primarily to hold down labor costs in sports like basketball and football.