And get this.......these kids are in college, they are not government employees or even employees in sensitive business jobs. What reason would the University, or the coaches, have to interrogate these kids about the financial arrangements of their parents? If I was a kid, and my coach asked me about my parents' finances, I would tell him to go piss up a rope. I'd tell him that my family's finances were none of his effing business. It's not like this kid from a poor family suddenly showed up on campus driving a $75,000 Mercedes.
To be fair the college football is a HUGE business. Like it or not the college coach is almost always the most highly paid member of the university (or upper-high school if you go to scUM as a football player). Colleges make wads of cash from the football program and should be held responsible for the actions of their players. Now I'm not saying they can control everything, and sometimes NCAA regs can screw them. But nonetheless, it's still their job and they must accept consequences if they are responsible. It isn't like any D1A program gets into it without knowing their exact obligations, and the consequences. There are a mounting number of things that point to them trying to tiptoe the line of what they can and cannot get away with, and that doesn't happen at clean programs.
I'd say if he turns out to be guilty, which seems increasingly likely, he should voluntarily return his trophy. USuCk should lose their games on paper that he played in and the PAC10 championship (if they won it that year...I don't care so I don't know).
Frankly I'm sick of the NCAA being the UN. Lot's of inane rules, and inconsistent enforcement. Off the record, I got an unofficial scholarship to play at my D3 school, which is against the rules, so I cant complain too much. But when there are millions (or billions at this point?) wrapped up in it, you must take enforcement seriously.
