Week 11 - NCAA Football

[huskymedic]

But I’m sure his players appreciated it and he felt much better getting it off his chest:

 

[MilliniumPrince]

As a former DB, I would hate that call against,me because it seems Marion initiated contact, but technically it was holding....I think

 

[uconnyankee]

I gotta say I watched this and I don't even know if I see a penalty. If there was holding, would it usually be called when the QB was sacked so quickly? I don't know the nuances of this rule in this situation. 4th and 10 from the BYU 9 with 1:30 to go. That's a tough call. And here is how the game played out.

We needed that staff against WF!

 

[ZooCougar]

You seem upset, as if you feel I am targeting SMU or something. I don't care what they, or anyone else ever did, when it came to money. I am just pointing out that they were much more careless or arrogant about how they went about things. If you watch the 30 for 30 about SMU, they have the news footage of SMU officials being shown, and asked about documented payments to a player. It may have been a check, or a record of payment that had been signed off on by a university admin. The news guys totally ambushed them with it and they had no answer. Those guys took it to a very bold and reckless level.

They were just the ones who got caught.

Miami was no different.

 

[Jimdish255]

Hated that call that saved BYU. Could have been called a dozen other times. It stinks for the young men. They won that game.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

As far as what they did, there wasn't too much difference between SMU and quite a few other schools. As far as how they did it, there was a massive difference and that is what eventually led to the death penalty.

The standard operating procedure for buying athletes had always been arms length transactions with a wink and a nod, allowing for plausible deniability from those directly connected with the school. SMU had what they referred to as board meetings with high level members of the football staff, athletic department and administration (school president for a while) meeting with how powered boosters weekly to strategize financial needs to acquire players and payments to players.

After getting caught (I believe for the third time in four years) they agreed to basically a plea bargain where they would no longer cheat and accept a death penalty if they broke the agreement. They continued paying some of their players after that (the evidence for the enforcement of the death penalty) then after a number of months decided to no longer pay, which led to the whistle blowing.

The board meetings and identifiable planning among school employees is what set them apart.