We always here that such and such school is going to receive the "death penalty". Without fail, it doesn't happen. Mostly, it's because the claims of impropriety are ********. Then again, we've had the Albert Means case, Reggie Bush, and countless others. Will it ever be applied again?
Will the "Death Penalty" ever be used again?
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The Death Penalty was like the atomic bomb. The devastation was so severe that no one will ever use it again despite the fact that the threat of it will always be on the table.<div>
</div><div>The NCAA will not use the death penalty, but they will exact some punishments that come pretty close to it.</div>
</div><div>The NCAA will not use the death penalty, but they will exact some punishments that come pretty close to it.</div>
A few years after the SMU death penalty, the NCAA gave the death penalty to Arkansas Pine Bluff. The common denominator between both SMU and UAPB was that both of their coaches were from Laurel, Mississippi. Bobby Collins for SMU and Archie Cooley for UAPB.
I keed. That's a pretty interesting factoid. So Laurel's coaches are as crooked as Laurel's piece of I-59?
and getting to know some SMU folks, their program wasn't given the death penalty, it was vaporized into oblivion. They are in awe that June Jones came here to coach and are delighted just to have a marginally decent team on the field. I don't think this severe of penalty will ever be used again.
Unless there's so much evidence of major infractions, say the FBI taped booster phone calls and inadvertently picked up that a school was buying players in bulk, then they may consider it.
Unless there's so much evidence of major infractions, say the FBI taped booster phone calls and inadvertently picked up that a school was buying players in bulk, then they may consider it.
If this turns into the firestorm of epic proportions that it is supposed to then Auburn will lose EVERYTHING, including accredidation as a NCAA participating university. With the talk on other boards of Bobby Lowder, Yella Fella and McGregor all possibly being implicated in this then they will cease to exist as a university where athletics are even played. This represents basically the control of money coming into and leaving Auburn athletics. The fact that the FBI has already indicted some people in this circle, they are still investigating it, means this could be precedent-setting in its scope and ramifications. Could also very well lead to Slive being removed and the SEC losing any ability to be able to monitor their member schools again. The SEC would still exist but as nothing more than a store front for a NCAA office in Alabama. This league could then become a much different monster where all teams were much more equal, may not be such a bad thing.
Zero percent chance auburn gets death penalty. Remember baylor basketball program didn't get it for covering up all that stuff.
Read this first: http://www.thetuskegeenew...bf59b3eea05796017322.txt
Then this: http://www.auburn.edu/adm...ialreports/sacsfaqs.html
Then this: http://www.auburn.edu/adm...ialreports/sacsfaqs.html
Another pretty sweet article about chubby fingers: http://thesportsjury.com/...versity-the-new-qthug-uq
they tried it on SMU and it was an extremely negative thing to the point where I think the NCAA regretted doing it. They are just now recovering from the death penalty- it took 30 years almost to do that.
After the death penalty they chose to deemphasize football. They moved their games out of the Cotton Bowl and into an old dilapidated 20,000 seat stadium and quit pumping money into the program. They only recently started putting money into their football program again. If they'd have kept the money flowing, they'd have recovered a lot sooner.</p>