Football fiends-
A USC friend had the brilliant idea to organize Trojan Nation in light of the allegations against the University of Miami under the watch of Athletic Director Paul Dee. The very same Paul Dee who sat in judgement of USC as head of the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions.
Well, when a program and a man show themselves to be of such low moral turpitude, how can we, as faithful Trojans, not speak out? For years we’ve felt the COI’s treatment of our football program. Now is our chance to send a message to Mark Emmert, President of the NCAA. S
Stand up and be heard.
Sign the petition for Cancellation of USC’s Sanctions and pass it along to everyone you know.
Link?
Nevermind!
What the troBans don’t get is that they wrote the book on how NOT to deal with NCAA allegations. Deny, deny, deny, lather, rinse, repeat for YEARS. Typical trOJan arrogance led to an air of invincibility, and that led to stonewalling the investigation. Whine (and Cheat) on!
Great idea!
Jason,
No one is denying that Reggie Bush’s family received benefits from a non-USC affiliated scout. What’s at stake here is the severity of the punishment handed down by the NCAA committee to the football program. If you read the entire report (which I doubt you did) at no time did it proclaim that USC players were being improperly paid by members of the USC community. Rather, they reached the conclusion that the Bush family had received benefits from an NFL scout who wanted Bush to represent his start up firm. We beat every team those seasons fair and square. No evidence exists of juiced or paid-to-play players, paid off referees, or what have you. So where is this cheat reference coming from? Perhaps you can’t fathom how well we performed against the teams we played that year.
Nowadays, you have the Cam Newton case, where his father admitted to shopping his son’s talent around for money. The NCAA ruled that even if Bush claimed he didn’t know about the benefits his family received, he was still ultimately responsible for their actions. So why haven’t they claimed the same thing yet for Newton and his father? Why the hypocrisy?
With the Miami case, you have wide-spread evidence indicating people were PAID by U of Miami affiliated people to play for the school. In essence, it’s a worse infraction than Bush+Newton combined. It will be interesting to see if the punishment will fit the crime (and with the NCAA’s current track record I doubt it will fit). Worse yet, the person who presided the USC case was the Athletic Director at Miami during this incident. The “He who is without sin cast the first stone” reference sounds accurate here.
Bravo George. It continues to be stunning to me how mis-perceived the Reggie Bush mess and resulting sanctions are. USC did not cheat. Nothing Reggie did or took or was done by or taken by his family gave USC a competitive advantage like pay-for-play and luring recruits with cash, cars and hookers does. Is mind boggling just how unwilling the general outside of the Pac-12 public is to accept that USC did not cheat.