Bring back Sherwood Blount......now!!

[HixsontoLeVias]

....after reading about the Mississippi State's repeat violator NCAA wrist slap yesterday...I ask myself, what does a program REALLY have to do to recieve SERIOUS sanctions from the NCAA?? What? Produce dead bodies? Kill someone? Knock someone off..? What does it take? MSU is a repeat violator, and they loose bowl priviledges THIS YEAR, and 8 scholarships over the next 2..something like that?? Alabama, who was buying and selling kids through high school coaches will / has walked....so....I say, let's go back to some serious, well thought out and orchestrated GUERILLA RECRUITING...what would happen? Loose a few "ships", no bowl game in 2006? I actually would much rather engage in guerilla recruiting versus offering JUCOish basket weaving majors....this IS the quickest way back to glory......think about it. Long Live Dudley Parker.....

[jtstang]

....after reading about the Mississippi State's repeat violator NCAA wrist slap yesterday...I ask myself, what does a program REALLY have to do to recieve SERIOUS sanctions from the NCAA?? What? Produce dead bodies? Kill someone? Knock someone off..?

No, Baylor basketball will only get a wrist slap for that.

[Stallion]

to get the Death Penalty you have to have an IDIOT at the head of your Board of Trustees who authorizes a continuing payroll to players even after 2 probations in 5 years. Apparently our renowned IDIOT is dumber than their idiots.

[ponyte]

Recruit overseas athletes. Launder the money through international financial institutions (where the NCAA can never find it). Tap into a source of athletes that are not familiar with SMU's pathetic attempts to support athletics post DP. We get to cheat and not worry about the NCAA’s ability to discover any wrong doing. We can buy some athletes, get away with it and everyone can get back to the business of blaming Bennett and bragging about our graduation rates. Can we now close this thread and get back to some serious self pity?

[ponyboy]

That will shore up our blue chip recruits from Holland.

[Greenwich Pony]

Hey, that's good. Then all recruiting could be "Dutch Treat..."

[EastStang]

Heck I thought for sure that Fresno was going to get it for basketball. They hired Tarkanian which was like flipping a big bird at the NCAA, then violated half the rules in the book, and got a wrist slap as well. All I know is that as soon as we go to the dark side, we'll get probably slapped down again, because the boys at UT and A&M won't want us to pass them again. Not that they break any rules.

[BrianTinBigD]

I am sure that we can come up with something more creative this time around. Perhaps numbered accounts in the Caymans, that are tied to credit cards that are issued from a bank in Switzerland. We then set up a small office in Bangkok where all the bills are sent and paid over the internet each month. I am sure that we have some international finance guys that could make this happen where the NCAA would never find out. unless of course they read Ponyfans.com

[couch 'em]

Personally, I'm all for cheating. If everyone is cheating, then cheating is no longer 'cheating' - it is just part of the game. Forget graduation rates too - I am here to learn about engineering, not football. Football players are here to learn about football, not engineering. Until we have a major called "BS in Kinesiology - football" I won't care about graduation.

To sum up - pay players, don't require graduation until we have majors that athletes would be interested in.

[KnuckleStang]

I'm all for free speech, but can somebody delete this thread? Seriously.

[jtstang]

I'm all for free speech, but can somebody delete this thread? Seriously.

No way, man, my Baylor line was hilarious. At least to me...

[KnuckleStang]

No way, man, my Baylor line was hilarious. At least to me...

My apologies, JT...that was indeed pretty funny. OK, so leave that, and all the stuff about the Caymans. But delete all the other crap! I censor all of you!!

[giacfsp]

A murdered student-athlete is funny?

[jtstang]

No, but the irony of the Baylor situation in relation to the original post was.

[BrianTinBigD]

Where is the sense of humor on this board in recent days. This thread really deals with the fact that no matter what any other school does, it will never get the death penalty like SMU. Baylor had a program that was so messed up that not only was a player killed by another player, but the coach is then discovered to be up to his neck in NCAA violations as well. What will Baylor get? A slap on the wrist.

So death of a player and a totally corrupt coach and team = slap on the wrist. I think we are looking for a little more punishment for something as serious as this. Heck, all we did was pay our players. Baylor actually had someone murdered.