Cast your vote: Death penalty for Miami?

[HB Pony Dad]

Lets tell "The U" what SMU thinks...

Cast your vote: Death penalty for Miami?

[Treadway21]

Yes is killing it at 66% to 33% and 46,000+ votes.

[ponyscott]

I voted YES!....

[ThadFilms]

DP for UMiami won't change poop. We need a real phase shift in major college athletics. Hopefully this revelation will provide it. And, doubly hopefully the NCAA won't give The U the DP... because NOBODY should get the DP.... and then (for our personal "we're fans" benefit) somebody repping SMU will sue the NCAA for all they've got.

[RyanSMU98]

I voted yes as well. Look, the NCAA needs to make a decision: either they're going to embrace the fact that they have sold out college athletics to the media giants, and modify their rules to reflect what benefits are acceptable and unacceptable for a player in the era of huge dollars, or they need to lay a hard core smackdown on a big-time school in a big-time conference and say enough is enough. The U may be the perfect target if the NCAA is looking to grow a pair and hold onto its illusion of amateurism for a few more years.

[Stallion]

Not enough information to vote. The entire program needs to be rooted out though. I'd start firing everyone the evidence shows was connected to the violations and ban any booster with any involvement or those with knowledge who participated for Life. I'd fire the entire Compliance Staff for being blind. I'm hesitant to fire Golden though because I've never really thought he was dirty-he may have walked into a Nitemare-but if he did and knew the violations were continuing then fire him too.

[ponyscott]

I voted yes as well. Look, the NCAA needs to make a decision: either they're going to embrace the fact that they have sold out college athletics to the media giants, and modify their rules to reflect what benefits are acceptable and unacceptable for a player in the era of huge dollars, or they need to lay a hard core smackdown on a big-time school in a big-time conference and say enough is enough. The U may be the perfect target if the NCAA is looking to grow a pair and hold onto its illusion of amateurism for a few more years.

Well said, and you are right on!

[HB Pony Dad]

[ThadFilms]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODymUrMeVe4

[One Trick Pony]

48,796 was a yes

[docabel]

The important point of this question is "if all of Shapiro's claims are substantiated..."

If all this is true and it is not worthy of the DP, what would be worthy?

[RednBlue11]

Lets tell "The U" what SMU thinks...

Cast your vote: Death penalty for Miami?

tell Pat Hayden that he's whining like a little girl

[Terry Webster]

Won't ever happen. ncaa is too afraid of the monetary fall out if they slap one of the big boys with the death penalty.

[leopold]

The important point of this question is "if all of Shapiro's claims are substantiated..."

If all this is true and it is not worthy of the DP, what would be worthy?

Donna Shalala or anyone at the administrative level knowing about it and not stepping in IMMEDIATELY to stop it.

[PonyTales]

If the NCAA can prove coaches were involved, yes - kill it for a year (although if that does happen — which it won't — the NCAA will have a plan in place to hold Miami's hand in its rebuilding effort so it bounces back much faster than we have).

However, if it just turns out that Shapiro was a one-man wrecking crew, then no DP. Doing that to Miami won't undo what was done to us.