LA Times is reporting anonymous sources saying a 2 year bowl ban and loss of 20 scholarships will be forthcoming.
I’m sure things will turn around now that they’ve brought in a fresh coach totally free from controversy or entanglement with any of those violations.
It’s good to see that once again the NCAA has acted quickly and is punishing the person under whose watch all of the violations occurred!
Now that is funny! Pretty boy Lane can take solace that he beat Natalie Gulbis in the sexiest woman alive Esquire Poll.
Hard to say he doesn’t deserve it.
I am curious if the vacating of USC’s wins in '08 and their exclusion from the tournament in '09 will be the limit of the punishment their basketball program suffers.
Eta: With regard to basketball, and OJ Mayo, that is. . .
I find this surprisingly harsh – just barely harsh enough, and that’s why it’s so surprising.
(Apparently Aaron Rodgers is saying on Twitter that he wants his teammate Clay Matthews’ 2004 Pac-10 championship ring. You rock, AR.)
Looks like they’re losing 30 'ships - 10 per year from '11 to '13.
From a USC forum:
As a Bama fan who lived through our own years of hell, while watching USC rise to power, while listening to my USC-fan office mate bloviate endlessly about “WHY WOULD ANY KID CHOOSE TO GO TO TUSCALOOSA WHEN THEY CAN HAVE BEAUTIFUL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?!”, this schadenfreude is particularly rich and creamy, with a subtle hint of spice.
Interesting to me that the NCAA used the dreaded phrase “Lack of Institutional Control”. I bet that phrase still sends shivers down the spines of SMU fans. Losing 30 scholarships at 10/year will sting a little, and the two year bowl ban will sting, but I don’t find the penalties to be particularly harsh, all things considered. The vacated wins don’t really matter–the fans that saw those games will remember what happened on the field. Kinda wonder if Oklahoma is now going to claim they were national champs for the 2004 season…
LOL…Why do they need to pay players to go to Sunny Southern California?
FTR, I ask similar question why any kid would want to go to Ann Arbor when they can go practically anywhere else to get better weather.
When did the piper play for USC?
If you’re referring to Rowdy Roddy Piper, I think he [kayfabe] played for the University of Glascow[/kayfabe], but is actually Canadian. 
The thing that I hate, and I don’t really now a way around it, is that it really punishes the current players and coaches (and students for that matter) for something they themselves didn’t do. I don’t know a way around that, but it really sucks.
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When the man dances, certainly, boys, what else? The piper pays HIM. Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir …
And the vision of today’s SMU sends shivers down the spines of the NCAA honchos. They’ll never impose the death penalty again.
Absolutely true. Vacating wins, removing championship rings, etc punishes the guilty (or at least the teammates of the guilty) but it’s a symbolic punishment at best. The only way to make it painful is to punish the innocent.
I wouldn’t say never. USC is going to be on probation for four years. If they get caught with another major violation while still on probation, that option may be on the table.
Then again, I think Notre Dame should get the death penalty, mostly for being Notre Dame.
And a chance to get slapped around once a year by tOSU
Who will then job to the SEC Champion yet again