Alex Holmes rips the NCAA
by Paragon SC on Dec 21, 2011 5:01 AM PST
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PrintYou gotta love it when a member of the Trojan family has no problem letting fly....(you takin' notes Reggie)
Alex Holmes found out about the NCAA's sanctions involving Ohio State via Twitter early Tuesday afternoon. He was baffled. And pissed.
"I just don't get it," Holmes said after reading that the Buckeyes will be docked nine scholarships and must endure a one-year postseason ban. Ousted head coach Jim Tressel will be under a five-year show-cause penalty. "I don't understand the NCAA's logic."
Obviously, Holmes a vested interest because he played and his brother Kaled currently plays for USC.
But even the most biased person can see the irregularities in the NCAA's rulings.
FIGHT ON ALEX!
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NCAA Bias
that is so true. i have friends who are fans of other conferences and they don’t understand my outrage regarding the sanctions usc got for a violation that a FAMILY did compared to what osu and other schools under investigation by the ncaa. all in what i hear from them is that the trojans cheated. i try and tell them what really happened and that it was in 2004 and the ones who are suffering were not on the team. they don’t care. all in what they get is that they cheated. that is what the ncaa says and they take that as gospel.
until the ncaa gives sanctions that are all the same, in other words, just, and fair, they will remain a joke. i am really tired of them trying to get kids to go to their favorite schools in the sec or acc conferences instead of usc. and, guess what. they really failed this time around because the kids have basically said we will come to your school, will wait out the sanctions and show them what we are made of. FIGHT ON!!! WE ARE USC!!!(and not that school on the east coast).
USC - lite: taste's better less fouling
Apparently the "big’ difference between the USC and OSU rulings lie in the NCAA’s interpretation of "failure to monitor’ versus “lack of institutional control” … whatever that is. Suffice it to say it’s a lot of smoke. That “should have known” precedent set with USC seems lost (or glossed over) when in eastern standard time. If anything the NCAA took its harshest punitive action against OSU’s former coach. Rightfully so, but that begs the question of “lack of control” by Ohio State. After all, isn’t the head coach an official and active component of The Ohio State University? The NCAA certainly thought Pete Carroll as such at USC. The charge of LOIC and resultant severity of SC’s sanctions in no small part come from the interpretation Carroll’s coaching style and program management as promoting illicit sports agent interaction with “amateur” athletes…i.e. the open practices, locker rooms, and game-time sidelines. In fact they really didn’t… rather it was an athlete’s own step-father deciding with monumental stupidity to prematurely cash in on his son’s NFL future career. Only a young man’s ‘better judgment’ remained as a possible deterrent but even that was eroded/overcome by a perfect storm of family loyalty and raw greed. Pete Carroll is alleged by some to have known. He did not and nothing close to proof that he did has ever been established. Nor has it been conclusively shown that USC in any way knew about the Bush infractions in the football program. At OSU there were systematic episodes of NCAA infractions known about and then covered up by the head coach. OSU’s head coach has admitted to lying and in this admission clearly substantiates all charges made against OSU. SC gets hammered with a loss of 30 football scholarships over 3 years for “lack of institutional control” when they “should have known”. Meanwhile OSU’s “failure to monitor” nets only 9 when they, without question, knew everything. What’s the real difference? Money? So much for following the rules. Only the NCAA really knows but would be hard pressed for a rational explanation. So it comes down to what most have known all along….
that there are some who can break the NCAA’s rules and there are some who cannot.
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Self reporting
Once the email to Jim Tressel about the tattoo’s was uncovered, it was OSU who reported the violation. It was OSU who reported the overpayment of work for hire with a booster, and it was OSU who reported the extra bowl gifts ($100) for a couple of players.
You can’t overlook this in the penalty phase. Any or all of these violations could have been swept under the rug, especially the later two. USC did not self report.
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