🏈 NCAA has only two choices with the death penalty: Use it or lose it

[BAMANEWSBOT]

The Miami case could become a test case on the ultimate sanction.

USA Today made actual news this week. The newspaper talked to someone at the NCAA, and what that person said sent shock waves throughout the college football world.

Mark Emmert, the NCAA president, said the death penalty should be in play in the right situation.
"If that's an option that the Committee on Infractions believes is appropriate in any one case - it doesn't matter which one it is - I'm not opposed to them using that," Emmert said.

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[TerryP]

Scab shocks me a bit this morning with some good thoughts.

 

[Joe]

There is a interesting critique of the Yahoo story by Miami alum Vishu Parasuraman that some may find to be interesting. I actually think he makes some good points. Here is what he says about the death penalty talk.

"Before I delve into Yahoo!’s evidence, I think it is important to provide some facts here. Even if all of Yahoo!’s allegations are 100% true, the first reported accusation occurred in 2002. Miami’s football team was last sanctioned in the mid-90s, starting in 1996 (Miami lost 31 scholarships over 3 years and a postseason bowl ban, very similar to what USC got for the Reggie Bush scandal). NCAA Bylaws are clear: The ‘death penalty’ is a phrase used by media to describe the most serious NCAA penalties possible. It is not a formal NCAA term. It applies only to repeat violators and can include eliminating the involved sport for at least one year, the elimination of athletics aid in that sport for two years and the school relinquishing its Association voting privileges for a four-year period. A school is a repeat violator if a second major violation occurs within five years of the start date of the penalty from the first case. The cases do not have to be in the same sport. I added the bolding because it is important to note that given the death penalty ONLY applies to repeat violators and that for Miami to be classified as a repeat violator, the NCAA would have to prove allegations occurred in 2001 and before, something Yahoo! doesn’t allege and a time frame in which Nevin Shapiro wasn’t even a UM booster. Therefore, this case isn’t even death penalty eligible because of the football program, which is kind of an important point that no one seems to want to make."

 

[Bo]

I don't think the death penalty should be used or ever will be used again. The main reason I don't think it should be used again is that it punishes more than just the school it imposed on. It will affect everyone in their conference and on their schedule.

 

[JeronimoSooner]

Something has to be done to the schools getting caught doing this stuff though. It seems the probations and punishments being handed out now are not harsh enough because it has not scared seemingly any school from continuing the crookedness. Maybe the Death Penalty is what is needed at this juncture because look at the major programs that have been hit in the last 5 years with something. Sure it will seriously damage a whole heap of people and institutions, but this is getting WAY out of hand.

 

[bamatommy]

Scab shocks me a bit this morning with some good thoughts.

Yeah, I thought it was a really good piece.