You know, for a conference synonymous with oversigning, there sure are a lot of walk-ons at SEC schools being awarded scholarships this season.
Daily Archives: August 17, 2011
Wednesday morning buffet
Hooker-free, but tasty.
- I really thought Cornelius Washington would have a breakthrough season last year. He’s still got time, though.
- Ditto for Marlon Brown.
- What does this say about Georgia Tech’s recruiting?
- Number 2 jerseys at Ohio State: “But we don’t have any plans to mark them down. There will be another No. 2 that will come along.”
- As a Georgia fan, I consider myself attuned to preseason happy talk. And this definitely qualifies. Welcome to dealing with mediocrity, Gator fans.
- Check out the top of Pete Fiutak’s “The Next Big Thing” list.
- “No one was going to pick on me.”
- Too bad there isn’t a YouTube clip of this.
- Here’s a terrific story on Stan and Jay Rome.
- Aaron Murray, Morgan Newton and John Brantley are checking you out.
After the crash comes the moment of truth.
Let’s face it: Miami is toast, at least for a while. There’s going to be a cloud hanging over the program for a few years. That goes for the coaches and administrators named in the Yahoo! story, too.
But that’s not the big issue here. Matt Hinton nails that one:
It’s also a test of the NCAA’s mettle: Just how far is it willing to go to continue to enforce the facade of “amateurism”? In the most extreme, unabashed affront to its most fundamental premise — hell, to its very existence — in 25 years, where does it draw the line?
I don’t know the answer, and I doubt anyone will for a long time. The NCAA process is well underway, and it’s response is going to be the usual long, protracted exercise in bureaucratic tooth-pulling, spanning many months and many bureaucratic steps and probably an appeal or two in the name of giving Miami its due process. At no point in that span will I write that Miami is going to get the death penalty, or that it should get the death penalty. Frankly, I don’t have an opinion.
But if the death penalty is in the bylaws, it must be on the table here. Practically speaking, if this isn’t a death penalty case, then the death penalty no longer exists.
Ignorance of goings-on isn’t likely to fly as a defense here. Especially with pictures like this surfacing.
Per Yahoo!, "Nevin Shapiro said this photo was taken during a basketball fundraiser in 2008, in which the booster donated $50,000 to the program. From left to right are men’s basketball coach Frank Haith, Shapiro and University of Miami president Donna Shalala. Shalala is holding Shapiro’s donation check. "
She looks so damned pleased there, doesn’t she?
It’s Mark Emmert’s worst nightmare.
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