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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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That's just great....I guess we won't be seeing USC in the brackets for the next few years.
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Nothing will happen to USC. The NCAA loves them...nothing happened when Reggie Bush broke rules, why will the NCAA treat this any different?
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Why would they? It doesn't appear the school is in anyway involved or implicated. Unless they knew, or should have known, and did nothing, I can't imagine USC will be punished at all.
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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IMO, forget seeing USC in the brackets. The truth is this young man has been in the spotlight since 6th grade and everyone knew he was coming to school albeit for one year, with a lot of baggage. The truth is USC did not have to settle for this arrangement. But since they did, price is the university gets to carry the baggage of a so-so year and performance by Mayo. Lesson learned? I strongly doubt it.
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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He didn't screw over his school. USC was not his school, he just hung out there for a semester 'cause he couldn't go straight to the NBA. Besides, if USC didn't have any idea what was going on, especially after the alegations against Reggie Bush, then they're stupid and deserve anything the NCAA does to them. Having said that, they won't punish USC in any substantive way. With as concerned as the NCAA is with their bank accounts, they won't do anything to one of their big meal-tickets.
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Buruzn09, your points seem to support the need to do away with the age rule and allow these young men to go straight to the NBA. I support freedom of choice and think this would be the RIGHT thing to do. Trouble is the NCAA needs these guys to promote NCAA March Madness. And in no small measure, thanks to Nike and all the other promotional machines of these young men early in life. Perhaps it is time to get back to the scholar athlete and allow others to take a chance in the NBA or work at McDonald's since many will not make it but are not qualified to attend college and do the work! What is the solution?
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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CMSBALL - I think I need to point out this has nothing to do with the "freedom of choice". The NBA is a UNION, and a union sets the age limit. The NBA Players didn't want these guys in there, and most want to increase the age limit. Might I remind you the NFL has a 3-yr rule, and when tested in court by the piece of trash RB from OSU we saw what happened. The NFL won. Its a Union who sets their rules, as is the NBA. The NCAA has nothing to do with it.
Plus, the argument of these guys need to make a living doesn't fly either. As you said, if they want to make a living then go work at McDonald's, play in a semi-pro league, or go play in Europe. They CHOOSE to go to the NCAA and CHOOSE to go to a university, so they should have to follow the rules.
As for some of the posters who say, the school should know and should be held accountable, let me ask if you have kids? Also, I am NOT a USC fan, but lets look at this logically. Do we honestly think we can prevent these kids from taking this money? I mean seriously, if you have kids you know you can only educate your kid to make the right decision and beyond that you cannot control them. USC cannot be with these guys 24/7, and these agents stand to make MILLIONS off of them, and will do anything they can to get their hooks in them.
I KNOW I did not have any solutions here, but here is one idea. NCAA players sign a "contract" and should honor the rules of that contract, BUT they can leave for the NBA early. However, if they violate the contract by accepting money like Bush and Mayo did, THEN those players should be fined for their entire liability to the University for that year. Including tuition, room and board, food, hotel stays and all travel expenses while playing basketball.
I do think the schools and coaches need punishment too, BUT come on without violating an 18 to 19yr old kid's right to privacy how can these schools police them?????
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Well said bbprthead. This is a fiasco that is well beyond the "institutional control" of any university, even though that should not excuse universities for turning a blind eye. From my experiences, I think USC works pretty hard on these issues because they know that they are in Los Angeles, they are a big time target, and therefore they are going to be highly scrutinized. Back in the early to mid 90s, when none of the programs were getting much attention, there were many instances of poor oversight that led to some minor problems. But, as the success and attention both became greater, I think the university has really stepped up its efforts. And, let's face it, the agents and runners are adapting. They are becoming better at what they do and thereby making it more difficult for the universities to police and enforce. There has to be accountability, for certain, but to me its obvious that the bulk of the problems in this system are not associated with the universities at all.
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Since:May 14, 2008
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The good news for USC is that from what I hear, there are no baseball prospects named OJ coming up interested in playing ball there. But just symmetry sake, they might as well hit the trifecta on OJ's that go to SC, and bring in a steroid scandal as well.
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Way to screw your school over...nice job buddy
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Since:May 14, 2008
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No, You can't prevent them, but you can do other things, like suspend them.
Students get suspended for poor academic results, why not for breaking ncaa rules?
If schools as a whole, and the NCAA were to take these issues more seriously and penalize students, coaches, trainers, etc... when they violate the rules, then we'd see some changes. No student wants to sit on the bench when they could be starting, or worse, get kicked out of school just to make some extra money.
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