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NCAA sanctions Alabama, what does this mean for USC

With NCAA punishing Alabama this week, it got me wondering if this is a look at what is to come for USC once the the investigation of Reggie Bush comes to its ultimate conclusion. Alabama was forced to vacate wins between 2005-2007. The media is saying it looks like 21 victories will be thrown out in football alone. The violation that Alabama is getting hit with is providing free text books to over 200 student athletes across 16 different sports. All players that received free textbooks were declared ineligible, and thus all wins that any of those students participated in were ordered vacated.

The NCAA jumped on Alabama hard because of the widespread nature of the textbook problem. The football team had 7 players that were ruled ineligible to play. Its difficult to compare USC to Alabama in this case. Alabama had participated in the textbook distribution to its own athletes. USC's problems come from agents outside of the university. Alabama seems resigned to the penalty. They did not lose any scholarships, and didn't receive any post season ban, so what their punishment amounted to was their coach's records taking a hit.

There has been a pattern in the past in which the NCAA does not force victories to be vacated due to a single player taking gifts. The most recent one being Oklahoma, which lost all victories that Rhett Bomar played in, appealed, and had those wins reinstated. Usually the NCAA is more lenient when a player is still under their authority, but that isn't the case with Bush. The NCAA usually comes down hard if there is booster, or university involvement in the violations. In our case, if we assume basketball doesn't spill over to football, there is no solid evidence that USC knew what Reggie or his family were doing.

One thing is for sure, if we get off lightly, the whole state of Alabama is going to cry foul. I can't see the NCAA giving USC a pass at this point. They seem to be handing out heavily punishment all around, and I can't believe that they are going to pass up any opportunity to let us off with a slap on the wrist

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