Bama to receive punishment today

[hifigator]

Not that I expect it to be much more than a slap on the wrist, but the violations did happen when they were already on NCAA probation. So they could get a real penalty, but somehow I doubt it.


On Edit: Oops! Forgot to put the link:

blog.al.com/rapsheet/2009/06/alabama_finally_receives_its_2.html

[theexorcist]

NCAA punishment drinking game:

Take a drink every time that the NCAA spokesperson mentions that the NCAA was thisclose to shutting down the program.

[hoyainspirit]

Man was hifi right. No financial hit, no scholarship losses, just vacating of wins and probation. Given AL's recent history, if I were an AL fan, I wouldn't be too optimistic regarding the University's ability to be without incident until 2014. Of course, the fact that they currently are on probation did not seem to matter this time...

blog.al.com/kevin-scarbinsky/2009/06/scarbinsky_does_alabama_presid.html

[PhillyHoya]

Jun 11, 2009 12:50:11 GMT -5 theexorcist said:

NCAA punishment drinking game:

Take a drink every time that the NCAA spokesperson mentions that the NCAA was thisclose to shutting down the program.

Take 2 drinks every time Hifi highlights the flaws of other programs in the SEC and not his.

[RusskyHoya]

From Scarbinsky's blog post: "Alabama has what Nick Saban might call a cultural problem."

Truer words have never been spoken, and they hold true in literally dozens, if not hundreds, of contexts (both for the university and the state).

As an Auburn fan, the feelings of schadenfreude are rather hard to suppress, although at this point, piling on Mike Shula and his tenure is the ultimate beating of a dead horse. But it remains the case that Alabama will continue to play the game of big-time athletics with a Machiavellian bent that would make Bismark proud, all in an attempt to recapture the glory days of St. Bear Bryant. If you think Notre Dame has some people with crazy and unrealistic expectations, just try to imagine it on a state-wide level.

[hifigator]

I wasn't even thinking about that in the slightest. The only thing I was pondering, was just how the Bama-FSU game from that period might be handled in the record books if both schools have to forfeit the game.

I know that about a half-dozen years ago, 2 high-schools were penalized for using ineligible players. I think one of them was out of the area and hadn't been granted the appropriate approval and a guy on the other team was academically ineligible for some reason. The official score of a forfeited game is 1-0, even though there's obviously no way to score just 1 point in football. I don't know how the record books would show it, but each team went 0-1 for that game.

[guru]

Jun 13, 2009 12:45:34 GMT -5 hifigator said:

. I wasn't even thinking about that in the slightest. The only thing I was pondering, was just how the Bama-FSU game from that period might be handled in the record books if both schools have to forfeit the game.

I know that about a half-dozen years ago, 2 high-schools were penalized for using ineligible players. I think one of them was out of the area and hadn't been granted the appropriate approval and a guy on the other team was academically ineligible for some reason. The official score of a forfeited game is 1-0, even though there's obviously no way to score just 1 point in football. I don't know how the record books would show it, but each team went 0-1 for that game.

FLORIDA CHEATS

[2ndRyan]

Poor Vanderbilt- a nun in a whorehouse.

[The Stig]

Jun 13, 2009 12:45:34 GMT -5 hifigator said:

I know that about a half-dozen years ago, 2 high-schools were penalized for using ineligible players. I think one of them was out of the area and hadn't been granted the appropriate approval and a guy on the other team was academically ineligible for some reason. The official score of a forfeited game is 1-0, even though there's obviously no way to score just 1 point in football. I don't know how the record books would show it, but each team went 0-1 for that game.

We had a similar thing in Wisconsin high school hockey a few years ago. Two teams that had played each other were both forced to forefit all the games they had played due to ineligible players. The game where they played each other was officially a 1-0 loss for both teams.

[hifigator]

guru, are you talking about the 2 high schools that each had to forfeit?