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Message: [QUOTE="Ricker, post: 3130505, member: 1245"] I don't buy the argument that we have athletic dept geniuses who have saved us from a scary fate. Using The Boneyard as a measure of the seriousness of the violations, I recall thread after thread debating whether Ollie's transgressions were even serious enough to support the administration's position to fire him for cause without paying him his $10,000,000. Factually, that still hasn't been established. I don't recall any debate or fear on the board resulting in similar threads as to how we needed to head off imminent significant ncaa penalties. From my recollection, the self imposed loss of a scholarship came out of the blue from a Boneyard discussion perspective. There was no expectation of us being potentially banned in the post season or losing future scholarships, no asterixis on tcf15's scholarship grids, and the reason is likely because the 'violations' aren't much. If I was betting, I'd wager this arose as more of a legal strategy to reinforce the university's position in the Ollie litigation that the university truly fired Ollie believing ncaa violations occurred and that the timing occurred this year so it could be incorporated into the arguments of that litigation. I think it has more to do with $10 mill than the ncaa. The ncaa could have been appeased with a loss of a scholarship next year just as easily. [/QUOTE]