USC Football Just Got Smashed...

[UCLA_Band_Mom]

<p>^^</p>

<p>Fred Goldman already took away OJ Simpson’s Heisman Trophy.</p>

<p>[O</a>. J. Simpson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“O. J. Simpson - Wikipedia”>O. J. Simpson - Wikipedia)</p>

[razorsharp]

<p>I still don’t understand what USC did that was wrong. Reggie Bush’s family got free housing from someone but did the USC coaching staff or administrators know this?</p>

[Cuse0507]

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I still don’t understand what USC did that was wrong. Reggie Bush’s family got free housing from someone but did the USC coaching staff or administrators know this?

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<p>House. New car. Accessories for the car. $30,000 in pure cash. Airline tickets. Hotels. And yes, people in the program knew about this (according to the NCAA).</p>

[coureur]

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<p>Fred Goldman already took away OJ Simpson’s Heisman Trophy.<<</p>
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<p>Goldman may have taken possession of OJ’s trophy, but OJ is still a Heisman winner. He has not been stripped of the award. And SC still displays his Heisman along with the others in their athletic hall of heroes on campus.</p>

[ThisCouldBeHeavn]

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I still don’t understand what USC did that was wrong. Reggie Bush’s family got free housing from someone but did the USC coaching staff or administrators know this?

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<p>Part of it was that the things that happened were essentially encouraged by allowing frequent contact with agents and marketers (as in at practices and in the locker room) and turning a blind eye.</p>

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@NCAA report

The general campus environment surrounding the violations troubled the committee. At least at the time of the football violations, there was relatively little effective monitoring of, among others, football locker rooms and sidelines, and there existed a general postgame locker room environment that made compliance efforts difficult.

and with the basketball team, which escaped with marginal punishment…

@NCAA Report

There were further signs of possible trouble that went unheeded by the administration of the institution. On October 7, 2006, the director of athletics went to the men’s basketball office after receiving an e-mail from a sports reporter looking for a response to a report that representative B was a professional sports agent and involved with student-athlete 2. When advised by the former head men’s basketball coach that representative B had on numerous occasions denied he was an agent or runner, the director of athletics responded, “That’s all I need to know,” and left the office. No further follow-up was done.

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<p>And even that wasn’t really successful.</p>

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@NCAA Report

At least by January 8, 2006, the assistant football coach had knowledge that student-athlete 1 and agency partners A and B likely were engaged in NCAA violations. At 1:34 a.m. he had a telephone conversation for two minutes and 23 seconds with agency partner A during which agency partner A attempted to get the assistant football coach to convince student-athlete 1 either to adhere to the agency agreement or reimburse agency partners A and B for money provided to student-athlete 1 and his family. Further, during his September 19, 2006, and February 15, 2008, interviews with the enforcement staff, the assistant football coach violated NCAA ethical conduct legislation by providing false and misleading information regarding his knowledge of this telephone call and the NCAA violations associated with it. The assistant football coach failed to alert the institution’s compliance staff of this information and later attested falsely, through his signature on a certifying statement, that he had no knowledge of NCAA violations.

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<p>It is interesting that there’s no mention of possible use of illegal assistant coaches, and the Joe McKnight case was too late for the investigation. It’s also interesting that the women’s tennis team had to vacate 3 years of wins for $7,500 in phone calls, while Dwayne Jarrett was only required to pay back the money when his housing was paid for by Matt Leinart’s father.</p>

[mom2collegekids]

<p>*I also think that Reggie Bush being forced to give up the Heisman would be an appropriate punishment. *</p>

<p>I doubt the NCAA has any power over the Heisman trophy. How would they go about “forcing” such a thing which is not within their purview?</p>

[APOL]

<p>As the coach, Pete Carroll has some culpability. Given the enormous sums of money he was paid, he might step up and offer to cover the monies in lost scholarships for the next two years…a thought…</p>

[rom828]

<p>^^^ I agree that Carroll is responsible. Are there no consequences for him, at all? Was he not the “manager” of this organization? </p>

<p>I’d love to know what the coaches told the last couple of recruiting classes when the subject of the investigation came up.</p>

[ThisCouldBeHeavn]

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I’d love to know what the coaches told the last couple of recruiting classes when the subject of the investigation came up.

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<p>They were mostly told that there would be no penalties, beyond perhaps vacating past wins.</p>