http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041027/SPORTS030102/41027018 STARKVILLE — Mississippi State has received its ruling from the NCAA Committee on Infractions regarding alleged violations committed by its football program from 1998-2002, the NCAA announced today. The NCAA will make the findings public at 2 p.m. on its Web site (www.ncca.org), then hold a teleconference with chair Thomas Yeager to discuss the findings. An hour later, the university will hold a news conference where president Charles Lee will speak..............
This will be VERY, VERY interesting. Rumor has it that Sherrill pretty much called the NCAZI's out. We'll see. If the go easy on Moo-U then there is plenty of dirt that someone has on the NCAZI's.
Well its done. Moo-U gets nothing but a slap on the wrist for being accused of some of the worst violations seen in teh SEC. Sherrill brought the house and fought this tooth & nail. He accused the NCAA of completely ignoring due process and put their own investigators on trial at the hearing. Unbelievable! Just further proof of how corrupt this rediculous organization is. M$U should have been hammered but they skate. :dis:
From the NCAA website: The committee considered the institution’s self-imposed penalties and corrective actions and has imposed the following penalties: Mississippi State University shall be publicly reprimanded and censured. The university is placed on four years of probation beginning June 12, 2004, and concluding on June 11, 2008, (four years from the date of the infractions hearing). The football team will end its 2004 season with the playing of its last regularly scheduled, in-season contest and is not eligible for postseason competition. The university is limited to 81 scholarships in football for the 2005-06 and 2006-07 academic years. The NCAA limit on football scholarships is 85. The university imposed a limit of 83 scholarships for 2005-06 only. The university is limited to 45 expense-paid visits to campus for recruits in football in the 2004-05 and 2005-06 academic years. The university may not "bank" any unused visits from those academic years and use them in subsequent years. NCAA rules allow up to 56 paid visits per year in football. Former assistant coaches A and B are subject to the "show cause" procedures in NCAA bylaws for a two-year period from June 12, 2004, to June 11, 2006. If they seek employment or affiliation in an athletically related position at NCAA member institutions during this two-year period, they and the involved institution must appear before the Committee on Infractions to determine if their athletically related duties should be limited. Read the full article... http://www2.ncaa.org/media_and_events/press_room/2004/october/20041027_miss_st_infr.html
And they took a shot at the whole conference.... "As is noted in this report, this atmosphere complicated the committee's work in determining the facts of the case," the committee said, adding that Mississippi State's president "made eloquent reference to the unhealthy football rivalry that exists in the southeast" during the infractions hearing.
Im sure there will be many who think Croom's hiring had something to do with this slap on the wrist but it didnt. There have been many black coaches get slammed by the NCAA. MooU fought, scratched and clawed on every issue and then put the NCAZI's, their investigators and their methods on trial. They forced the NCAA to move VERY, VERY carefully to avoid damaging law suites that would have surely followed if they hadnt. Read these findings carefully and compare them to other similar situations where monsterous penalites where handed out. These isnt much difference, if any, in other cases yet the MOO's skate while others like Bammers get the hammer. This is ridiculous. :dis:
No doubt Gus. Like taking away a bowl game from a team that wasnt going to make it is laughable at best. The real meat of these penalties is nothing but smoke and mirrors. They say that schollys are reduced by 8 but that is BS. They didnt impose "ANY" signing limitations. That is HUGE....GIGANTIC. Most teams dont have more than 80 or so total on scholorship anyway. The penalties that hurt the most are signing limits but they can sign the full 25 from now on. It makes no sense considering the findings of that report. The dang pigs got more penalites for less infractions. There is ZERO consistency in the NCAZI rule. They need a total overhaul and the house should be cleaned.
I'm afraid to mention this,but don't you think that some of the allegations made by the former Bama coaches against the NCAA may help other schools not get punished as much as Bama was? They (NCAA)may realize until some rules are put in place(I mean rules where you do this............the punishment is this...plain and simple, and its the same for everybody) that people are now watching them and that they can be held accountable for the decisions that they make against a school.
