<p>[Source:</a> Two-year postseason ban for USC football - ESPN Los Angeles](<a href=“LIVE Transfer Talk: Barça close in on teen talent Bergvall - ESPN”>Source: Two-year postseason ban for USC football - ESPN)</p>
<p>Yikes.</p>
<p>WHATTT!!!</p>
<p>thats crazy!! they totally got Calipari’d!</p>
<p>Actual hurt to the program depends on scholarship reductions, I’d imagine.</p>
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<p>Attendance will likely take a hit as well. Who wants to go watch a team play when the wins are basically irrelevant?</p>
<p>Well, if the conference realignment just happened, I’m sure people might manage to fit into the stadium for a UT/USC matchup.</p>
<p>this is why Pete C headed to the NFL…</p>
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<p>I wonder when the transfers will start.</p>
<p>20 scholarships lost. Wow. Massive pain.</p>
<p>Probably something like 5 a year for 4 years. They’ve gone over 20 scholarships once in the last 5 years, so it’s probably not a huge it. The perception will hurt more than reality.</p>
<p>Wow…Lane Kiffin must be PO’d and looking for the exit. No new coach likes to work thru a situation like this…hard to recruit…etc.</p>
<p>We have a friend who is playing football there—will be a Junior—on full scholarship. Too bad for him…good thing they won the Rose Bowl his first year because it looks like that will be it for his trophies! Wish there was a way to punish the “program” and not the really innocent players who just want to play ball and have a chance at playing in the big games.</p>
<p>This UT fan has no love lost for USC. Wish Pete Carroll wouldn’t have bailed so that he had to clean up his own mess. Too bad the people most responsible won’t have to suffer the consequences.</p>
<p>Kids will transfer out, but I bet they’ll find plenty of kids willing to transfer in for the chance to play big-time ball.</p>
<p>This just shows how ridiculously misaligned college football and basketball are. Millions of dollars are sloshing around, coaches have multimillion dollar contracts, and yet the superstar players can’t (officially) be paid.</p>
<p>The worst losers are the almost tiptop players who can’t make it in pro ball, either because they’re not quite good enough or they get injured. Their coaches are making millions off them, but they get nothing, no money and frequently no education and no diploma.</p>
<p>Kiffin may not be responsible for this, but it serves him right. I hope he can’t muster a single winning season and leaves in frustration and disgrace. Whiny brat. I hope everyone in Knoxville is having a field day with this.</p>
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<p>He’s free to transfer out as he’s an upperclassmen. Other than that, there’s nobody on the team that didn’t know USC was being investigated when they signed. They chose this punishment.</p>
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<p>“headed” to the NFL? More like “escaped” or “fled” to the NFL - one step ahead of the NCAA posse.</p>
<p>Looks like it’s 30 scholarships instead of 20, but USC did get some lenience.</p>
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<p>Just read this: “The NCAA found that Bush, identified as a “former football student-athlete,” was ineligible beginning at least by December 2004, a ruling that could open discussion on the revocation of the New Orleans Saints star’s Heisman. Members of the Heisman Trust have said they might review Bush’s award if he was ruled ineligible by the NCAA.”</p>
<p>Give it to Vince! lol</p>
<p>SC parent here–Besides Pete Carroll escaping by the skin of his teeth, I don’t see any reason why Mike Garrett (the AD) still has a job. I also think that Reggie Bush being forced to give up the Heisman would be an appropriate punishment. I feel sorry for the kids bearing the brunt of the punishment who had nothing to do with this.</p>
<p>^^On the other hand I haven’t heard anyone say that they should revoke OJ Simpson’s Heisman, and his “issues” are much greater than anything Reggie Bush might have done. I guess OJ was NCAA eligible at the time, and that’s what counts.</p>