Are OSU,USC Too Big To Be Hurt By NCAA?

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Are Ohio State, USC too big to be hurt by NCAA penalties? - USATODAY.com

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How do such powerhouse football programs ultimately fare after major NCAA sanctions? Are some simply too big to fail?
Recent cases suggest that. The Miami Hurricanes, hit with NCAA penalties for lack of institutional control in 1995, won the 2001 national title. And Alabama, sanctioned in 2002, won it in 2009. ...

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A 2007 study by Chad McEvoy, an associate professor of sport management at Illinois State, found that the five-year winning percentages of 35 teams sanctioned over a 15-year period ending in 2002 actually rose, from .547 to .566 in the five years after they were penalized by the NCAA.
Even among 10 schools hit with what were considered the most serious sanctions, the winning percentage dipped only slightly, from .634 to .614.

 

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... Alabama was banned from bowls and stripped of several scholarships in 1995, when the school was cited for lack of institutional control in part for not responding swiftly enough to allegations a player received money from a sports agent after the 1993 Sugar Bowl. Alabama went 8-3 and 10-3 in the seasons that followed its sanctions.
"Losing two or three scholarships … you always recruit three or four (players) who can't play anyway," Stallings says. "Now, you just got to be really, really good on who you recruit. Instead of having 25 and gambling on five of them, you've got to take 20 and make sure they're the right people."
Hit again in 2002 with a two-year bowl ban and scholarship losses for booster-related violations, the program went through a five-year dark period but returned to national prominence after hiring coach Nick Saban in 2007 for what initially was an eight-year, $32 million contract. (In a bit of creative scheduling, the team offset the bowl ban by booking season-ending games in Hawaii.)
By the end of the 2009 season, Saban's Alabama team was the undefeated national champion.
Stallings imagines a similar scenario for Ohio State.

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... one thing will not change for the Buckeyes:
"They're going to have their first football game of the year," he says, and "they'll have 105,000 people in the stands

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"At Miami, it was very difficult at first," said Coker, the coach in 2001 after being an assistant during the probation. "At one time, we were playing with 52 scholarship players (teams without sanctions are allowed up to 85) and some walk-ons. We really had a short stick, and it was very difficult to compete. And nobody was feeling sorry for Miami when we'd go play somebody.
"I still have the Sports Illustrated cover ("Why the University of Miami should drop football") framed in my office. We knew we could come back, because you had so many good players in the area.

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[johnnykillz]

As TerryTate would say, "Anger sharks are swimming."

 

[Rhode Irish]

Then, um, you need stiffer penalties. Am I missing something?

 

[BleedBlue&Gold]

what SMU got will never happen again, to much money involved now.

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

what SMU got will never happen again, to much money involved now.

Yeah, I kinda agree. I read an article about the fallout from the SMU death penalty. Doesn't mean poop, but I kinda agree it won't happen again, even if it "should."

Anywhat, I could not explain it, but the only athletic teams I HATED in all sports as a youngster were the SMU and Miami football teams.

 

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what SMU got will never happen again, to much money involved now.

SMU's Death Sentence is over exaggerated.

Since 1987 SMU has only won 29.8% of it's games. Duke, Vanderbilt, N.M. St, Temple, Kent St, and Buffaflo won slightly less WITHOUT the Death Penalty.

Boise St was a Div II program. As was Connecticut.

USF hadn't bought their first football. They had no program, no stadium, no nothing.

During the same period Boise has the second best winning percentage in Div I. USF is #25, and UConn #52 right behind MSU and ahead of UNC and OKSt.

uConn entered Div I in 2000, beat ND in '09 and got a piece of a conference crown.

The Death Penalty is overrated and overdue for application.

 

[BleedBlue&Gold]

imagine if any team today had 2 years of football taken away. i understand Alabama being exaggerated a little but, what SMU got killed them. i think USC should have got games taken away. Reggie was not the only one.