Umm...We might be in some SERIOUS trouble with the NCAA

[Buckethead]

This may be the first sign that we are about to right the ship and get back to winning.

[Pony in SA]

I assume he is kidding about us being in trouble, cuz when one of the big boys cheat they get a slap on the wrist and then they have to find a smaller school to make an example of.

Yep, sort of like the DT from Warren down here that signed with Texas and his relatives offered spots to work Texas summer camps.

[jtstang]

This is no big deal. Of course, if this means he is ineligible for next year I am definitely taking his car back.

[MustangLaxer]

Unless you typed it wrong-you haven't even described a violation by SMU. If the test is found to be fradulent, the test will be thrown out-and the score erased. How does that indict SMU? The recruit will not be able to gain admission to any NCAA school based on the erased test score. It happens more than some realize. The only investigation would be by the Testing Company-I seriously doubt the NCAA gets involved with that stuff w/o more evidence that a representative of SMU was involved.

Minnesota ran into this with their QB Marquis Grey. He was on campus and the ACT score got red flagged. He had to leave the school and re-take it.

He passed in October and re-enrolled in January. Case closed. If that's what we're talking about here, then I'm certainly not losing any sleep over this.

How do you pass an ACT? What is a 'passing' score?

I don't know. You tell me.

ACT was just after my time...I only had to worry about the one standardized college board exam...

[huskerpony]

Ummm....how would a high school coach doing this get us in any trouble?

We hardly got in any trouble when our own coaches did it 10 years ago!

[huskerpony]

Oh. And Stallion's explanation of the sliding scale was right on.

I also seem to remember 17 being the ultimate cutoff too? Don't know if that has changed. I know they have reformulated those exams and their scoring scales since I was in school.

But the way it worked back in the day was if your GPA was lower, you had to get a higher score--like maybe if your GPA was a 2.3, you had to get a 22 or 23, but if you had a 3.5, you only had to hit 17.


.....Or I might have that backwards. Maybe if you hit 17 you were in the clear, but if you had a higher GPA you could drop down a few points.

[Longtime]

When Larry Johnson's SAT score was thrown out, SMU didn't get penalized. The NCAA or SAT people asked him to re-take the test. He refused and went to Midland College instead. The rest is UNLV history.

[Dooby]

NCAA did nothing with Larry Johnson. That was nothing but us shooting ourselves in the foot and then emptying hte rest of the clip into the other foot and both knees.

This is stupid.

[EastStang]

Of course the NCAA did do something to Tark the Shark. But then again, he made it his mission in life to flip a big one finger salute at the NCAA his entire career. I think he got the Lifetime Achievement Ban for not obeying NCAA rules.

[George S. Patton]

Of course the NCAA did do something to Tark the Shark. But then again, he made it his mission in life to flip a big one finger salute at the NCAA his entire career. I think he got the Lifetime Achievement Ban for not obeying NCAA rules.

And Tark won.

[Pony Soup]

waste of my time. go ponies. (did we really get someone that needed someone else to take his SAT to qualify? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!)

[smupony94]

I took my buddy's ACT and got a 33 both times (mine included).

[gostangs]

The Larry Johnson incident was just an excuse to let us live in basketball since we had already been squashed by the NCAA in football. The test taking was not the only issue - just the one that was used for a graceful exit stage left.

If we are getting any attention at all from other Texas teams due to our recruiting then that is a wonderful and different thing.

[ponyte]

Well if we did this, then this had better been a 5 star recruit! Don't waste a good NCAA violation on anything less!