# Miami Hurricanes (still) in trouble (again)

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**Created:** [July 21, 2012, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-hurricanes-still-in-trouble-again/628936 "2012-07-21T07:31:59Z")\
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As a Florida State Seminole, I admit to some small amount of schadenfreude at reading this today:  
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> [@AP News](#):
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> Miami coach Al Golden’s second season at the school is beginning much like his first one, with new accusations of rule breaking, the looming threat of serious NCAA sanctions and no apparent end in sight for the long probe into the Hurricanes’ compliance practices.

]([http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FBC\_MIAMI\_NCAA\_INVESTIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-21-00-35-57](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FBC_MIAMI_NCAA_INVESTIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-21-00-35-57))  
It wasn’t just the football program, either:  
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> Men’s basketball was hit multiple times, first with the suspension of DeQuan Jones after he was linked to Shapiro - Jones was ultimately allowed to return to the team - and then suspensions of two other players. Reggie Johnson missed a game after the joint compliance investigation showed members of his family accepted “impermissible travel benefits” from a member of the school’s former coaching staff. And guard Durand Scott, the Hurricanes’ leading scorer, was suspended just before Miami’s ACC tournament game with Florida State after he was also found to have gotten unspecified extra benefits.

]([http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FBC\_MIAMI\_NCAA\_INVESTIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-21-00-35-57](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FBC_MIAMI_NCAA_INVESTIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-21-00-35-57))  
So, the big questions still have to be answered, namely exactly how much happened that shouldn’t have and how hard will the hammer fall?

Should UM get the death penalty? Should they get a slap on the wrist? Should the NCAA just throw out their rulebook and start over, acknowledging that schools and sports (and of course the players) are actually big business and not the 1960s amateur hour they want it to have remained?

Should Coach Golden lose his job? How about Coach Larranaga? Should any players be (further) penalized?