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Bush was paid to leave USC not paid to go there.
Hey Socaljim, great to see you here. I was sooner314 on ESPN. Now that you have two posts you can start your own threads by the way. Might take a few minutes for the system to let you though. Stop by the water cooler and introduce yourself, most ESPN poster will probably knows you but the board also has CBS and FOXsports posters.
Amazing how uninformed people are out there. USC was hit hard because Reggie and his parents took gifts money rent from guys who could care less about what it did to USC and would have wanted him to leave the school and go pro as soon as possible. Oregon is found to have knowingly paid a middle man money to steer players to Oregon. TOSU had a coach lie to the NCAA about what he knew so the players could play in a bowl game. Auburn has a player whos parents where shopping his services and neither school gets any penalty worth talking about. The NCAA spent five years basically getting the goods on one player (Bus)h but doesn't spent a quarter of that time on the 70 or more players at Miami .
USC's massive penalty was a direct result of Mike Garrett's arrogance. He and Paul Dee got into a pissing contest and as the saying goes, "piss flows down hill".
I'm so disappointed that Dee has died. I would love to see him eating crow today..
Agreed!! It got personal between Garrett and the NCAA and that is never a good thing!! End of the day though, USC got hammered because they dared to defend themselves. The NCAA expects schools to throw themselves on the mercy of the court and just accept whatever penalties are thrown their way!!
The most galling part of it is that Paul Dee chided USC with his "high profile players demand high profile compliance" line while he's got Shapiro running amok all over the U!!
As if that's not enough, it looks like the NCAA has botched the investigation so badly that Miami is unlikely to receive any more sanctions beyond what they self-imposed!!
Sure it got personal, if you were called out on something you didn't know about, you would act the same way. It's called " Having A Pair" unlike our current AD....
The NCAA is a joke, to give USC what they did and then give Ohio State what they have and Oregon, and whatever they aren't doing in Miami is laughable.