Auburn Info - they deserve death penalty

[Big Hoss]

Bingo. It's all about money, and while we were certainly in the wrong, it allowed them to look like they were being tough on rule-breaking, while not losing any real contributors to their stash.

[Alaric]

Small private schools where wealthy alumni can have unusual access to and control of the power structure and leaders of the university based upon financial contributions. State schools are more beholden to poltical interests to obtain state legislature funding. I'm serious-it could easily happen again at SMU. Look at some of the crazy claims SMU alumni make about the Death Penalty after 5 probations in 11 years, a dedicated slush fund that went back over a decade, and the Head Coach, AD, Board of Trustees, President of the University having full knowledge and condoning payments for years. Many can't seem to distinguish that situation from the rouge coach or rouge booster situation. I'm not sure I trust alumni, who think SMU got screwed by the NCAA, do the right thing if they get the "fever". Zealous boosters and recruits/student athletes don't mix and the less contact they have with each other-the better.

So...you're saying operating in a political, bureaucratic environment lessens corruption?

[Charleston Pony]

I think this blows over much the way Alabama's controversy did several years back...it landed Bama on probation but didn't spread through the conference. There was a very suspicious fatality that came out of that, but I think the difference today vs the old SWC days is that there is MUCH more money involved and I don't see the SEC eating their own. Once the truth started coming out in the Pony Excess days and everyone set out to destroy their conference mates, there were concerns that Rice would have to represent the SWC in the Cotton Bowl by default.