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But rather than reply to my points you just give a "Meh, the world is ending. I don't care about this", your opinion is quite uninformed. There are rules in place in both College and NFL to maintain a level playing field, without which the game would not be what it is today. Circumventing these rules is wrong and hurts the game you love. Weather you like the rules or not the players who choose to play also choose to follow the rules, if they don't like the rules then they can choose not to play. The rules are the rules, if you submit yourself to an authority you submit yourself to their rules. To me it's as simple as that.

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I'd bet that neither Ohio St. nor The U will get much more than expensive slaps on the wrist.

"Too big to punish". You watch.

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You're right; my opinion is very uninformed and just that...an opinion. It's actually less than an opinion and more of a feeling. This all ties back to the fact that I don't really care what goes on. It went on long before there was exposure to it as well. Should we start digging up bodies for questioning?

K, aside from the "head in the sand" approach, the major issue here still isn't really addressed: BOOSTERS.

There's very little that can be done to them if they are caught paying players. It's not illegal, the school can simply ban them from games/campus but that's about it.

And the Boosters are smart enough that they spread their money around to the entire university. You can't simply evict them from the sports programs, they're donating $$$ to other areas as they seem to love getting their names on buildings.

Until the Booster issue is addressed, you're arresting the drug users (athletes) and telling the dealers (Boosters) to take a walk to the next corner.

As far as working, not allowed. And the issue is controlling under the table gifts by overpaying for work or even non-work.

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This is from the latest yahoo story on this. Ray Ray and Dye were the worst offenders along with Vernon that encouraged it from the team aspect. I didn't expect any of them to play again. Everyone else was involved in two stupid events, a pool and bowling tournament. Stupid decisions that should be punished for but this is it, at least since Shannon took over for the piece of SH*****t Coker. And Coker can only be found guilty of being an inept, blind, useless piece of humanity, not for knowingly enabling Shapiro to do his thing. He was too stupid to know about it. Shannon knew what was happening, fired Sean Allen and the others that enabled Shapiro. and rebuilt from there.

They screwed up and they screwed up big for a long time but this is all really minor crap compared to Reggie and Newton. They deserve a heavy suspension and they will receive this but all the death penalty talk was just stupid. Miami is not the program they use to be and won't be until they figure out how to get this monkey off their back. They haven't had a quarterback worth mentioning since Ken Dorsey and he wasn't that good. Until they can put quality in this position, they have no hope of returning to former and future glory.

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Couple of things here:

1.) As PW already noted, scholarship athletes are not allowed to have jobs. The kids need to have a little spending cash,and until this is addressed that part of the cheating will continue.
2.) From what I understand, the death penalty is not in play in this case due to to the parameters set forth by the NCAA governing the aforementioned sanction. A school has to have been found guilty previously of a major violation within a certain time frame, which apparently does not apply here.
3.) IMHO the looming "super-conference" structure may bring with it the end of the NCAA's power. Advertisers do not care about who sanctions these sports, only in their ability to draw viewers.

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