Death Penalty for Alabama St.?

[Stallion]

No it simply is not the same. There is a legal standard for NCAA violations and there is a separate legal standard for the Death Penalty which is lack of institutional control. You're mixing all the evidence together but it still does not prove lack of institutional control. USC could have 3 straight episodes of a rouge agent throwing hundreds of thousands at their players and it still would amount to what the law considers "no evidence" of lack of institutional control. As in criminal law when a person kills another person the death doesn't necessarily prove capital murder as opposed to negligent homicide, involuntary manslaughter, voluntary manslaughter or murder in a lower degree than Capital Murder. You need to have evidence establishing either knowing concealment or reckless disregard of appropriate institutional standards-and there has to be real evidence of this not mere assumptions. Now I will agree that the NCAA will never give the Death Penalty without actual knowing condoning of the cheating at the highest levels of the university ie Athletic Director and President and/or Board of Directors. I think the SMU case kinda set the standard. As long as those at the highest levels of the university are not involved I agree The Death Penalty will never be given again.

[mr. pony]

Lack of institutional control is not a requirement for the death penalty. It's the number of major violations in five years.

The big boys successfully beg off getting their violations deemed "major."

[Cadillac]

I like your Positive Attitude !

Sorry, my sarcasm filter is busted, I'm not sure if you're serious here. But I have a very positive attitude when it comes to SMU football. We chose to suck for all those years, but we now choose to stop sucking. I don't think we can really take control until we take responsibility.

-CoS